anyone going.
who will win

I think England will win as they have the better pack but they need to be on top form because if the exiles are putting kick attacks to the wings Richards and Monaghan will cause all sorts of trouble. This will be good practice for the WC though.

Looking forward to seeing the England contingent. Hope they all play.
Good luck Eorl, Ferres and Leroy.

Not going and i think the Exiles will win as i dont think our halfbacks/pivot players are either fit enough, good enough or in enough form to trouble them.

Just hoping that none of our lads get injured.

not going watching on sky

looking forward to watching cudjoe and crabtree...ferres i think may get a game too (he is hoping so as hes cancelled a family holiday for this!)

exiles team looks strong, England are the bookies favourites.

Its a must win game for England, I feel to make people believe England can compete.

As mentioned above there's a few of our key players just come back from injury.

Lose this and McBannana will have even more grief for the squad he's picked, but will use the 'not our aussie contingent is available'

cudjoe and crabtree named to play

between ferres and JJB who takes the last place to play tonight.

Ferres the one in form so Macnamara will Deffo go for JJB!

Cudjoe starts Crabtree and Ferres on the bench

Cudjoe definitely one of the stand out performers. Fully justified his selection.

Cudjoe was excellent today
Eorl looked really solid running the ball in and on defense.
Ferres did not really get the chance to shine seemed to be playing a lot in the middle rather than attacking the flanks. Some nice offloads though ( looked better than Westwood who gave away 3 pens i think).


Bailey did not seem to good defensively and was not really involved in the attack. Would like to see more off him before judging him as a possible Giants player.

Cudjoe was England's best player for me.....but really, what a pointless game it is......serves no real purpose, players arent bothered on either side, fans aren't bothered, SKY team sounded bored.

Sky team always sound bored unless Leeds are playing, Stevo and Eddie remind me of them two off the muppet show Waldorf and Staddler

They ARE the two from the Muppet Show

Certainly a pair of muppets

Funny bit was when Ferres tried to offload after a good break and it went wrong - Phil Clarke had a go saying we can't afford that against the Aussies.

Then a few minutes later Sam Tomkins does the same, and Steve and co have a go saying he can't do that against the Aussies hey Phil and Clarke..................silence

Yeah and Clarke was praising Hill's offload in the first that only went to hand by sheer luck

The sky team ruin the games for me sometimes

But to be positive

The England Exiles game is a fantastic concept, just needs a touch more development (add in the Celtic and French players). To say the players aren't interested is just mad, look at them when they score, fantastic. What they need is also to get more time together in a training camp

Cudjoe has to have his name on the English right centre spot now, MoM performance in an England game - what more can he do?

Crabtree we know what he can do, we know he can do it v the Aussies. MacNamara has to play him

Ferres, better than all the other England back row last night IMO. But come the World Cup it will be the Burgess brothers all the way, sadly for Bret.

Other than our own players:
Our back 3 were good, Tomkins put some great defence in to match his attack
Our front row were great as we knew they would
Myler ok, great support not much else
Sinfield superb at 9 too slow at 6

Our back row. Poor
Chase. Poor when he wasn't anonymous
Hardacre. Not a centre

the amount of times leeds got mentioned during lastnights game!!!


and banging on about super league, no wonder the international game doesnt get the recognition