Tierney in the Scotland squad along with Andrew and Kane Bentley

Apparently only Melbourne have more players at the tournament than we do

So it's not just football world cups that the French can stuff up. Hakim Miloudi out for disciplinary reasons. Ilies Bergal replaces him

Guillaume Bonnet did his ACL in the Jamaica game. Replaced by Remy Marginet.

Bit of France clobber. https://t.co/F88UhRJAnt Polo please. L. Ta.

Bit of France clobber. https://t.co/F88UhRJAnt Polo please. L. Ta.

A side note: Seems like Fages is in line for an NRL move

11 Dracs make first round of world cup line ups.

#fatigue

Squad for the opener v Lebanon:

Mark Kheirallah, Ilias Bergal, Damien Cardace, Bastien Ader, Fouad Yaha, Olivier Arnaud, William Barthau, Théo Fages, Lucas Albert, Antoni Maria, Eloi Pelissier, Julian Bousquet, Clément Boyer, Thibaud Margalet, Ben Garcia, Benjamin Jullien, Nabil Djalout, Jason Baitieri, Mickael Rouch.

And here's the Lebanon squad:

Anthony Layoun, Travis Robinson, James Elias, Jason Wehbe, Abbas Miski, Mitchell Moses, Robbie Farah, Tim Mannah, Michael Lichaa, Alex Twal, Chris Saab, Ahmad Ellaz, Nick Kassis, Mitchell Mamary, Elias Sukkar, Jaleel Seve-Derbas, Andrew Kazzi, Adam Doueihi, Bilal Maarbani, Jamie Clark, Danny Barakat.

It's basically the decider for that third place, let's be honest about it. And it looks a tough old prospect. Can't really call it decisively either way.

World Cup Eve!

What a performance by Paul Aiton and the Kumuls. They talk about the crowds at the Gilbert Brutus being passionate and partisan, well what about that at Port Moresby? We need to up our game. Wonderful stuff

So many things wrong with that. Unfit, undisciplined, slack in possession. Bousquet and Ader apart, that was f---ing dreadful. And Lebanon weren't great. A more clinical side would have battered us.
And now we'll have to qualify for 2021