Been announced today the details of the England vs Exiles game.

Will be played on Friday 10th June at Headingley.
Captain of the Exiles is Danny Buderus, vice captain is Thomas Leuluai.
Coach is Brian McLennan, assistant is Terry Matterson.

The fans pick their team rlHERErl.

I think that playing it on a Friday night is a mistake, the crowd may be affected by this.

The team that I picked from the website is:
Kearney
J Monaghan
King
Carmont
Richards
Chase
Sammut
Puletua
M Monaghan
Mason
Fitzgibbon
O'Donnell
Fa'alogo

Obviously on mine, Buderus and Leuluai would probably have to start ahead of M Monaghan and Sammut though.

What is everyones thoughts then? I personally think that the team that I picked would give England a good challenge for once, and it is much better than playing the French and beating them by 40-50 points.

www.internationalorigin.com/ So far. Joel and Matt King are favourites from Wire

www.internationalorigin.com/ So far. Joel and Matt King are favourites from Wire

I'm going to pick a team with no Warrington players in it... don't want any of them picking up unnecessary injuries in a meaningless game.

May have no choice.

There are limited numbers of players

Can someone list all the players available for selection?

I've just done just that morleys_deckchair - an exiles team with no warrington players in it!! 3 from Wigan though

so, when does the innevitable cancellation of the Salford (48 hrs later), game take place.
If we've allready got 5 involved for the exiles, then potentially
Atkins
Bridge
Morley (tho God knows why, we all know what he can do)
Carvell
Westwood
Harrison

when do we fit it in. We're allready booked up every weekend to mid Sept

FULL BACKS
Brett Hodgson
Brent Webb
Brett Kearney

Wingers
Joel Monaghan
Pat Richards
Francis Meli
Amos Roberts

Centres
Matt King
George Carmont
Iosia Soliola
David Howell
Amos Roberts

Stand Off
Rangi Chase
Brett Finch

Scrum Half
Thomas Leuluai
Jarrod Sammut

Props
Willie Mason
Mark O'Meley
Kylie Leuluai
Tony Puletua
Jeff Lima
Ray Cashmere
Michael Vella

Second Row/Loose Forwards
Craig Fitzgibbon
Clint Newton
Luke O'Donnell
Steve Menzies
Ryan Hoffman
David Fa'alogo
Ben Galea
David Faiumu
Louis Anderson

I went for:

Kearney
Monaghan
King
Carmont
Richards
Chase
Sammut
O'meley
Monaghan
Mason
O'donnell
Menzies
Fitzgibbon

My method:

1. Pick any available Salford players as we play Salford on the Sunday.
2. Pick any available Wigan players as they have a tough game away at Cas that weekend - and are our main rivals.
3. Make the rest of the team up of Saints and Leeds players.
4. Avoid Warrington players!

Webb
Richards
Howell
Soliola
Meli
Chase
T Leuluai
Puletua
Buderus
K Leuluai
Hoffman
O'Donnell
Fitzgibbon

3 from Wigan, Saints and Leeds... No Wires. Happy days

On paper it could be awesome, but I can almost guarentee numerous hamstring tweaks etc the week before, and the Exiles will end up with a few NL1 players and fringe SL players.

By looking at the current results... Might as well say we've got no Hodgson, King or Joel that week already + probably Moz, Bridge and Westwood too!

It could be superb or it could be as you say, a selection farce with the side that takes the field bearing no resemblance to the one the speccies select. If the Exiles side drags players out of SL selection that weekend I'm sure there will be a few fans reflecting on how this became the defining round in the hunt for the hub cap. Just as long as the Wire players come out of it unscathed I'll be happy.

To have this game on the Friday, when there is a round of games on the weekend is ridiculous.

If they wanted this game to be taken seriously, they should have held it on a sat/sun and suspended all SL games for that round.

It will either be

a) Riddled with players dropping out due to little injury's.
b) A stroll around resembling tick and pass.