According to the site, currently, the Exiles team if voting closed now, would feature Craig Fitzgibbon at both second-row and loose-forward

I picked

Hodgson
Joel
King
Howell
Meli
Chase
Sammut
O'Meley
Mick
Mason
O'Donnell
Menzies
Fa'longo

Best available team from the players at my disposal.

For what it's worth...

Roberts
Richards
Carmont
Soliola
Meli
Chase
Sammut
Cashmere
Buderus
Leuluai
Menzies
Fitzgibbon
O'Donnell

Surely we can stop 6 ing players going.

As a club there must be something in it. Let them have atkins, hodgeson and king and maybe even joel.

We'll keep bennie and Moz.

edit: i mixed myplayer nationalities up. and we have given them our 3 best centres never mind

Great idea the timing is all wrong. It should be played at the start of the season.

If the clubs or players were that bothered about it, then why don't they simply announce the 'representative' retirement of all their potentially selected players for that weekend?

I'm pretty sure that our overseas contingent really couldn't give a flying **** for this whole thing anyway and can an England side really do without Westwood or Harrison in the long term?

IS there anything (minus the ballache) stopping people from maybe having multiple votes through separate accounts.

Find a close fought position and vote en masse to save the wire player from getting picked?

But it's quite possible that everyone else is voting FOR the Wire player to be included, so negating any cheating tactics you choose to employ.



There can only be a maximum of three Exiles players per team plus whatever players are called up to play for England. We have three Exiles players put forward and four of our first team players were also called up to the England squad (one, Pryce, won't make it as he is out for another two months).

Superleague teams are all playing their regular round game on the Sunday following, so they do get a day off. That's only a day less than the players have at Easter.

from the listed players

1. Kearney - Bradford
2. Meli - St Helens
3. king - Warrington
4. Howell - Quins
5. Richards - Wigan
6. Chase - Castleford
7. Sammut - Cru Cru Crusaders
8. Cashmere - Salford
9. Buderus - Leeds
10. Mason - Hull KR
11. Menzies - Catalans
12. Fa'alongo - Hudds
13. Fitzgibbon - Hull

1 from each Sl team in the starting 13. 4 clubs to have another representative on the subs bench. Ironically the only SL club not represented is Wakefield. Obviously this is not going to happen with Tommy Leulaui named as vice captain so will likely start. This for me would at least be a reasonably fair way to try and ensure that no club is penalised far greater than any other.

well be a very exciting and close game...
exactly what the english team need a game against stong opposition.
could be embarresing if they lose tho...

Think this could be a great idea if it gets the right backing. Not sure why its being held at Leeds other than RFL Headquarters being at Leeds. Wigans ground would have been a better option.

I hope they do to be fair. Would make it a lot more interesting the year after.

There's just no middle ground in the international game, you've not NZ + Aus, and after that you have minnows. That team on paper should probably beat the England team, and I'm looking forward to it (But as has been said, timing of it is wrong).