Kicks of tomorrow then with France vs Wales,KO 3pm live on BBC.

Interesting choice of venue,Lens,a town in the north east of France,many miles away from the southern RL heartlands.To be played in the pro soccer stadium,which has a capacity of 41,000 Be interesting to see how many speccies turn out for this one.Might be expecting a huge travelling support from Wales so playing it close to the tunnel

Have to wait till next week for England's (& Leroy's) opener vs Wales at Wrexham.

bit of a strange choice of venue! you would think they would keep it in the south

was interested in the handicaps wales were +26 but down to +16 now

11k the crowd... poss the best attended game of the series by the end of it...well done france!

kopzchak?

Entertaining game, the French lacked fluidity due to a lack of game time and the Welsh lacked the grunt to match the excellent French forwards

Game changed with a ten minute spell from Tommy Bosc where he looked world class.

Good start to the comp.A decent game that between two fairly evenly matched sides.Some big hits going on there.

11,600 and a few in attendance,probably will be the biggest of the comp,seeing as Salford capacity is only 12k for the final,and I doubt that will totally sell out.

stacul looked good for france at full back

england v france next at hull kr?

can see england winning quite easily by 28+

Wales v England next week then England v France

yes england v wales next up

rangi chase pulls out with groin injury!

thats a blow for the preperation, luckily its not the world cup

dont think they are calling anyone up for the wales game but possibly for the france game yes...

maybe a call for brough?????

who will replace chase v wales? maybe ratchford and sinfield together or myler

Sinfield is that good, apparently, i'd expect him to play both roles, but wasn't he a hooker in the last world cup and loose forward last year?

no disrespect to the 2 other teams but we could probably play 2 props at half back and still win them both comfortably.

Steve Mac won't name his team until just before kick off,not sure why the need for such secrecy,but there you go.

Hardaker will debut as FB,and Sinners is skipper,so that's two confirmed starters.

As for Leroy,we'll just have to wait and see if he gets the nod.

prob due to the mcillorum thing, they have included the knights game as a ban now so he will play at hooker

lets hope cudjoe gets a game! with no injuries!

will be good to watch kopzchak again too

brought myler in from the knights to replace chase... mcnamara must not like brough!!

funny he calls some one up from the knights .. he didnt do that when he flew luke burgess over from oz

Wondering whether Leroy will get a start,more likely to go with Ablett & Watkins.The way they finished the season maybe fair enough.One strong the other tricky.

I'll have a guess at this being his pick.

Hardaker
Charnley,Watkins,Ablett,Briscoe
Sinfield,Myler
O'Loughlin
Ellis,Hock
Hill,McIlorum,L Burgess

Mossop,Morley,JJB or Harrison,Burrow

Why the cloak & dagger stuff from Steve Mac about his selectionI don't know,that team should beat Welshwales by 40 points.

wouldnt want to be going into the world cup with that team but we will have tomkins/roby/chase back by then

the bookies have england winning by 40 points too