this coming wednesday....im going and would expect quite a few more giants fans down to support England playing in our home town and with 3 Giants players in the team...with few on the exiles side to add abit of spice!

team announced as..

1 Stefan Ratchford (Warrington Wolves, Wigan St Patricks)
2 Josh Charnley (Wigan Warriors, Wigan St Patricks)
3 Leroy Cudjoe (Huddersfield Giants, Newsome Panthers)
4 Ryan Atkins (Warrington Wolves, Stanningley)
5 Tom Briscoe (Hull FC, Featherstone Lions)
6 Matty Smith (Salford City Reds, Blackbrook)
7 Danny Brough (Huddersfield Giants, Thornhill Trojans)
8 Eorl Crabtree (Huddersfield Giants, Huddersfield YMCA)
9 James Roby (St Helens, Blackbrook)
10 Garreth Carvell (Warrington Wolves, Stanningley
11 Carl Ablett (Leeds Rhinos, Hunslet Parkside)
12 Jon Wilkin © (St Helens, East Hull)
13 Jamie Jones-Buchanan (Leeds Rhinos, Stanningley)
14 Rob Burrow (Leeds Rhinos, Featherstone Lions)
15 Liam Farrell (Wigan Warriors, Wigan St Patricks)
16 Lee Mossop (Wigan Warriors, Hensingham)
17 Scott Taylor (Hull KR, Skirlaugh)


a few dropping out from the earlier game v exiles with injuries etc...which doesnt look good but then again alot of people were saying that they prefered the knights team!!! so hey a few have been promoted....vital for next years world cup to try new things and give players a chance


well done cudjoe, crabtree and brough cant wait to see brough!

not sure about ratchford at full back....has he played there for warrington??
and matty smith...been playing well for salford but not sure hes an international.

One of the most under-rated back-rowers in SL in my opinion

Daniel Holdsworth got the nod over Dobbo , L'Estrange in at hooker. L'Estrange should have no probs finding a new club i would imagine. Like him a lot, if Higham doesnt get a new contract he would fit in well at the Wolves. Unless the Giants go in for him, Moore just signed but Brown on way to the Vikings, could be an interesting off-season to say the least www.code13rugbyleague.com/2012/0 ... y-england/

Daniel Holdsworth got the nod over Dobbo , L'Estrange in at hooker. L'Estrange should have no probs finding a new club i would imagine. Like him a lot, if Higham doesnt get a new contract he would fit in well at the Wolves. Unless the Giants go in for him, Moore just signed but Brown on way to the Vikings, could be an interesting off-season to say the least www.code13rugbyleague.com/2012/0 ... y-england/

Score predictions?
I'll go for Eng 22 Exiles 16.
First try scorer - Cudjoe.
Hopefuly we will see a better game tonight, thats if it stops raining for a change!

i think exiles will win.... bookies think England by 4, been alot of cash for england too.

just goes to show this is better for england as for us getting closer to beating the aussies...if we were still playing france we would be predicting wins by 40+ for England.

Well, the predictions on here have been way off. England have been terrible and Brough has been a disgrace to the shirt. Crabtree and Cudjoe have been ok, but Brough has probably been the worst England player out there.

Why was the crowd so poor? I'm sure it's not the fault of the local fans, I can well imagine it's been under advertised and having it mid-week won't encourage people to come out, but for those of you up there, has the game been given any profile locally?

Brough a disgrace??? He's been no worse than any other England player, who have been poor tonight,what a silly statement to make!
As for the crowd, well its hardly going to atrract a decent crowd wherever it was played but no doubt it will be huddersfield fans fault for not turning out to support their country blah blah blah

And yes the game has been advertised on billboards and on flyers around town but the people of huddersfield wont even support their hometown club never mind the national side