The problem is the RFL don't have the finances to risk staging the game at a larger venue.

They can't guarantee the media publicity to promote matches away from the so called M62 corridor, compare and contrast with this afternoon when the Lions RU SQUAD announcement was live for almost an hour on Sky Sports News, Setanta, Talksport and 5 Live.

you are right, Sean Long will have probably hung up his boots by then.

Seeing how quick Smith wanted to get him out of the club when he took over at Wire it wouldn't suprise me in the slighest.

Gleeson and Shenton would be my 2 centres.

Maybe. I'm not sure that was due to him, perhaps more off field money worries. But who knows.

He said he didn't want guys who'd made it clear they didn't want to be at the club at Warrington.

Wheather he holds grudges when it comes to international selection i guess we'll see.

What there is no doubt of is that Gleeson is one of the best 2 English centres in the country.