Good win for the young lads always nice to beat the Aussies plus they have had a few warm up games together.

George Burgess is going Souths according to Bradford board, good for him and his game but not for Bradford.

went to the game and was amazed at the tackling that Laithwaite did for the full 80 at loose forward. He has a great passing game as well and is certainly one for the future for us. Much better prospect than Westerman at Cas/Hull. I'm not at all surprised he got MOM and for the second game running- brill. He looks like he just gets on with his game and does the hard work but he has alot of skill.
Ben Evans was also very good, although as a prop, he got overshaddowed by George Burgess who pushed Laithwaite for MOM. Burgess takes your eye because he is so effective with the ball in hand but a little static when defending and the quick Aussie hooker caught him out at least once.Evans was much better defensivly than Burgess.
The other Evans in the centre was at best poor, missed tackles and lost the ball a couple of times when running forward. Hes quick and aggressive and probably needs more time at this level. or perhaps he just had a bad day today.
O'Brien, seen him play a few times and was the second best of the 2 halfs. Powell, the Wigan lad, took the ball into the line much more than Obrien(twice in 80mins) and as a halfback this worries me. However Obrien has a fantastic kicking game and controlled his forwards well around the field.
i thought that Obrien at 6 and Laithwaite at 13 linked very well, good for the future at Wire.
On the whole a good day for England and looking forward to the 2nd clash next Friday, if its at leigh get down and support the Wire lads.
other point is that Sam + joel Tompkins and Oloughlin were all there supporting England and the Wigan lads. Bridge was there l guess cause his brother was there playing and representing wigan but i did not see any other Wire players?

Picture in one of the League newspapers this morning of the team and Laithwaite looks huge an he's standing next to Burgess, sounds like Rhys had an off day, hope it is moved to Leigh again so I can go straight after work on Friday.

Thanks for the great review,
From the little i have seen of him, O'Brien has a great kicking game and the England coach mentioned it in his after match comments.
Do you think O'Brien will keep his play for friday considering Cain Southernwood is in the squad and he has Super League experience and is highly rated ?

Fridays game now also switched to Leigh.

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Come on Wire fans get down to the LSV on friday night and support our future stars. It's only £3. It would be great to double last weeks attendance.

Engl 22-4 Aus HT in the 2nd test at Leigh

still got the ref in our pocket?

England were 26-4 up 10mins into the 2nd half, but the Aussies have pulled it back to 26-16 with 18mins left.

Bilko over on the Wigan board as the updates

32-16 Rhys Evans with a solo try

rhys evans mom! brilliant!

deserved?

no gave it to the wrong evans ben was outstanding, reece did nowt apart from scoring, ben put himself about he was all over the place.

nice to see warrington with so many good young players....

st helens youth policy is really going to struggle now warrington lads appear to be staying in warrington. (yes i know the evans brothers are from wales)

nice thought isn't it.

They can't poach Wigan or us. Who is left?