2 tries and 4 goals already with 18 minutes gone.

This really is a training exercise. Not really seen much of Myler with ball in hand considering the forwards are tearing France apart. Both his tries came from good support play though.

Offiah will be probably be seeing more pound signs the more points he puts on the board.

Unable to watch the game tonight but the coverage on BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA is top class.

They have just hinted that Richard Myler will be at Warrington Wolves next season, but hey nothing new on that one I suppose...



WELL DONE RICHARD MYLER....
THE SALFORD CITY REDS INTERNATIONAL.

myler doing all the kicking....

FRANCE 12 - 66 ENGLAND


[uHAT TRICK[/u..for the 19 year old

SALFORD CITY REDS INTERNATIONAL.....


3 Tries.
9 Goals.

30 points...... [uA NEW RECORD[/u for an England v France game....

Although it's against poor opposition this will give Richie a confidence boost going into the game against Hull next week - his form has dipped slightly in the last 3 or so games.

Anyone think Offiah slipped the french cameraman £50 to focus on his golden boy - the camera was never off him!

Think you could be right on this one......There were other good perfomances and good players didn't see the camera's on them much.....

He has played well Myler but you have to say that the oppostion was very poor.....Like someone said on the wire forum...Its like Saints playing Gateshead Thunder, you would expect players to look good against them

[iSATURDAY JUNE 13th 2009


RUGBY LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL from Paris...



France 12 - 66 England[/i




England kicked off the post-World Cup era with a 12-try demolition of France in a one-sided mid-season international in Paris tonight.

Coach Tony Smith was looking for a pick-me-up after England's dismal World Cup campaign last October and he fielded a young side full of in-form players for a match with the under-strength French.

They did Smith proud, 19-year-old Salford scrum-half Richie Myler claiming a hat-trick of tries, with the others coming from Michael Shenton, Danny McGuire, Peter Fox (two), Ryan Hall, Shaun Briscoe (two), James Roby and Sam Burgess.

Myler took his haul for the evening to 30 points with nine conversions, six of those coming before the interval which England went into 44-0 up.

France, led for the first time by former Great Britain scrum-half Bobbie Goulding, were embarrassed in the first half but improved after the break, with Jean-Philippe Baile and Cyrille Gossard getting their tries and Thomas Bosc booting two conversions.

The second half was less of a run in the park for the English, but Smith will be satisfied with his players' performance. They now have the end-of-season Tri Nations to look forward to now.

England's previous highest score against France was 73-6 back in 1996 in an international in Gateshead.

But given the scratch team France were putting out, many were confident that record would be under threat. It almost materialised, but not quite.

Goulding was missing seven key players - including Dimitri Pelo, vice-captain Olivier Elima and big forward Jamal Fakir - and Les Tricolores were coming off a World Cup campaign that saw them pick up the dreaded wooden spoon.

Their last win over England came in 1981, but it was clear from the off that Smith had nothing to worry about tonight.

It took eight minutes for England to claim their first try - and after that, it was a procession in front a sp crowd at the Stade Jean-Bouin.

Castleford centre Shenton took a pass on the burst down the left channel to go over for the opener before McGuire started and finished a length-of-the-field move for number two.

It was embarrassingly easy even at this early stage and worse was to come for Goulding, who was holding his head in his hands from almost the first whistle.

A cricket score was in the offing as Myler grabbed a quick brace, his first coming when he was on the shoulder of a bulldozing Burgess before he took a sensational offload from captain Jamie Peacock to barge over for his second.

Myler, in great form for Salford this season and targeted by Goulding himself as a man to watch tonight, converted the first four and but missed the next two following scores by wing duo Hall and Fox.

Myler took a massive hit from France centre Baile but was still able to make a quick play-the-ball, while Baile was on the floor in agony, to enable Fox to go over in space on the right.

Debutant Hall, the in-form Leeds flyer, went over in the other corner in the 26th minute.

By that stage it was 32-0 to Smith's men, with the beleaguered Les Tricolores bruised and battered.

Briscoe picked up a brace of tries, converted by Myler, before the half-time bell, which would have been music to the ears of Goulding.

France were first out for the second half, no doubt with their ears ringing after 10 minutes with Goulding, and they were far better after the break.

They managed to put points on the board in the 43rd minute when Baile ran onto a Bosc kick to catch and ground in one movement.

And England did not have things all their own way, although their tries kept coming.

Two replacements combined for their ninth, Eorl Crabtree popping up a pass for Roby to crash over.

And after a male streaker had held up England's charge on the hour mark, Myler - completing his hat-trick - and Burgess went over for two more.

Fox and Gossard traded scores in the final 10 minutes but the night was comfortably England's.



International Match

France (0) 12

Tries: Baile, Gossard

Goals: Bosc 2

England (44) 66


Tries: Burgess, Fox 2, Briscoe 2, Myler 3, McGuire, Roby, Hall, Atkins

Goals: Myler 9

richie vaule has tonight just shoot through the window so if the big boys , ie st helens , leeds , wigan , bradford , wires , can come up with £ 500, 000 we might listen


red devils the originals

Going wire, already verbally agreed.

For big big money he can go, just like our very own Cristiano Ronaldo!!!! lol

Myler lost some of his bargaining power tonight in the international




















he didn't kick all the goals

Why would he want to leave Salford for a mediocre club such as Warrington?

I don't think young Richard Myler wants to leave Salford at this time it's all down to planning for his future and of course at the end of the day it all comes down to money.

Can Salford City Reds afford him ?

Can Salford City Reds afford not to let him go ?

Oh Talk like this makes me laugh....and you would know.....hearsay yet again.....verbally means nothing Offiah still in talks I am sure with a number of clubs including Salford.......

Lets just see what happens

It's the football scenario. Do the club sell him for a large fee or let his contract run down and lose him for nothing. No brainer.

But clubs aren't stupid, they will wait for him to end his contract then sign him up, simple.

I think if we ( wire ) sign him, we might loan him back to you for another season to gain even more 1st team expierance. He's a gem of a player and if you do sell him, i hope you get a massive sum, he's worth it.

No chance in hell. Myler will start for whichever team he signs for.

We get a fee for him regardless - I would imagine that it will be higher if he signs for another club at the end of this season rather than at the end of his contract next year though.

We could offer him a good salary with 2 salford players leaving this season why not offer him a good wage because there is no need to move yet hes only 19 and got years left ahead of him.

and what about the other members of the team whos contracts are up for renewal and the club want to stay.

Do you really think? I dont. Look at the likes of Eastmond, Tomkins etc for proof of that. Playing for a smaller club has really aided Myler's development and he has had far more chances than youngsters at the bigger clubs get. However he is still far from the finished article and if he played for someone like Wigan he could easily get put in the reserves or be on the bench.

For the amount of money he would cost any club that does try and get him from us, I can't see him sitting in the reserves.

Eastmond and Tomkins are playing behind Long and Smith respectively which is pretty much why they aren't starting week in week out.