1 Gareth Widdop (Melbourne Storm, King Cross)
2 Tom Briscoe (Hull FC, Featherstone Lions)
3 Chris Bridge (Warrington Wolves, Waterhead)
4 Michael Shenton (Castleford Tigers, Upton)
5 Ryan Hall (Leeds Rhinos, Outlon Raiders)
6 Kevin Brown (Huddersfield Giants, Thatto Heath)
7 Sam Tomkins (Wigan Warriors, Wigan St Pats)
8 James Graham (St Helens, Blackbrook)
9 Kevin Sinfield (Leeds Rhinos, Waterhead)
10 Jamie Peacock (capt) (Leeds Rhinos, Stanningley)
11 Gareth Ellis (West Tigers, Castleford Lock Lane)
12 Sam Burgess (South Sydney, Dewsbury Moor)
13 Sean O’Loughlin (Wigan Warriors, Wigan St Pats)
14 James Roby (St Helens, Blackbrook)
15 Adrian Morley (Warrington Wolves, Eccles)
16 Ben Westwood (Warrington Wolves, Normanton Knights)
17 Joel Tomkins (Wigan Warriors, Wigan St Pats)

18th man:
Nick Scruton (Bradford Bulls, Churwell)

Good to see both Joel and Sam in there

And France
France’s 19-man squad (current club in brackets)

William Barthau (UTC)
Andrew Bentley (UTC)
Remi Casty (Catalans Dragons)
Olivier Elima (Catalans Dragons)
Jamal Fakir (Catalans Dragons)
David Ferriol (Catalans Dragons)
Tony Gigot (Catalans Dragons)
Cyril Gossard (Catalans Dragons)
Mathieu Griffi (Toulouse Olympique)
Gregory Mounis (Catalans Dragons)
Nicolas Monuz (Lezignan)
Nicolas Piquemal (Lezignan)
Florian Quintilla (Lezignan)
Sebastien Raguin (Catalans Dragons)
Michael Simon (Catalans Dragons)
Yoan Tisseyre (Toulouse Olympique)
Julien Touxagas (Catalans Dragons)
Frederic Vaccari (Catalans Dragons)
Constant Villegas (Toulouse Olympique)

I can't see anything other than a massive England win, looking at those teams.

..and a complete waste of time.

Other than a team bonding exercise. I can't really see any great benefits to this game.

England certainly aren't going to be tested, and neither will they have to play any great attacking rugby to break France's line.

St Pats have more players playing for England than Saints do

An England Under 23s would have been a better idea from a competitive angle!

Playing a team like this would be more interesting and a bigger test for england IMO. it was a quick write down so i will have missed some out.

1.Webb
2.Hicks
3.King
4.Gidley
5.Richards
6.Kearney
7.Orford
8.Vella
9.Buderus
10.Lealuai
11.Menzies
12.Newton
13.Morrison

14.Cashmare
15.Feka
16.holdworth
17.Lealuei

I think you are right really. It would also be far more competative with a bigger build up to the game. Players on either side will be playing against team mates from their club adding come spice.

We could play england v SL XIII mid way through the season..then have the france game before we go to australia.

And to be fair to each team have only one overseas player from each SL club. even add overseas championship players to make the 17 up..players like Catic.

That's probably what the Aussie fans think when England play Australia.

It's good to see more variety in the England squad than the Saints/Leeds team that played in the world cup, looking forward to seeing Burgess play hes been nothing short of sublime in the NRL this season.

I agree.

England versus 90% of a team rank bottom of Super League and only interested in a Challenge Cup Semi Final.

England by 50

How long is it since there have been more Wigan players than Saints in an international?

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