This game is being played today and classed as a U16 game. Congratulations to Kane Ditchfield and Olly Davies who have both been picked despite being a year younger. The only 2 players to have been picked from the U15 lot that travelled and both are on Saints Scholarships.

Lewis Galbraith and Andre Savelio will also play from our U16's.

Lewis Galbraith and Andre Saveli are both down to play France today, whereas Kane and Olly are playing Wales. Looks like two teams have been picked out of the 38 man squad.

Jake Shorrocks and Olly Gildart are both down to play in the Wales game, they're both a year younger and are both at Wigan. There's one or two glaring omissions in the squad if you ask me.

One lad to watch in my opinion is Zak Dewhirst, a Yorkshire lad who's at Warrington. Strong as an ox prop, with tremendous skills. I expect him to have a field day against Wales.

Kane told me both Jake and Olly Gildart had both not been picked for either team.

I bow to your superior knowledge then. I'm only going off the RFL website.

Anyone know how the two games went?
v Wales at Bradford and v France.

England 24 vs Wales 18 zak dewhirst mom didnt stop running at the line good tough game for the lads

England 18 vs France 19 i was told france got a drop goal with minutes to go ;-(

Jake Sharocks and Oliver Gildart never played. Both back up and it shows why I get frustrated with the set up of our country. There is a lad running about every week who is miles ahead of Jake in terms of Quality and outplayes him everytime they cone up against each other. Yet one gets 18th man for England while the superior one gets overlooked completely. It absolutely stinks.

PS. I have no relatives playing the game so I have no bias.

Hmm, who could you be talking about?

England U16's playing the second test v France at Bradford tomorrow 2:30 kick off. Watch out for the Wigan half back pairing of Hampshire and Williams.

Yeah looking forward to it ,were they not paired up in the first test ?

Ive not seen Hampshire yet with him being from Yorkshire but i was very impressed with George Williams at last years U15 scholarship games. Very good step and a decent organiser.

Interesting to note that many of the lads in the England camp are very un-happy at the fact they have not had a look in, in there originall positions. One of the lads who was released from camp is a fantastic half back from Hull who everybody believed was a shoe in for the position with Hampshire. Instead he got 15 minutes at hooker against France and is now dropped. The game is riddled with bias.

This game is classes as U16 but there is 1 U15 left in the England squad and is part of the France game (20 players have been picked but only 17 will play, they find out a hour before kick off) and that player is Kane Ditchfield a awesome talent who left Warrington scholarship for Saints this year.

Good luck lads.

I was talking to a parent of one of the lads who played V France last week and he said that the French lads were a lot bigger .He actually wondered about their age group.



I may have a ride over to Bradford this afternoon, if I do I'll post the score later.

I might be going aswell. Be a last minute decision.

If i dont and you do will you provide a detailed match report please Rogues as you cant trust the RFL to do it properly.

Good man.

If you do go I'll probably nip into the Odsal Top pub for a swift beer around 1:45. Come and have a chat.
I've decided that I am going to go.

I'm taking Bilko with me, I'm sure if I buy him a beer he will do an excellent match report.

Sorry Rogues decided to stay at home. I'll bump into you at some youth game sooner or later.

Cheers for the match report.

England won 58 - 14.

Bilko will post a report soon.
Hampshire at stand off and the second row no 11 were outstanding.

Is Hampshire the kid from Wakefield we fought tooth and nail for? If my memory serves me right he is.

Yes, he scored two tries and set up two others today. I'm sure Bilko will be giving a report, probably on the Wigan board (he'd better as pinched my team sheet

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The lad in question is injured and I think will miss Saints' 1st 3 scholarship games. But you are definitely right should be in the England squad

Who should have been in the squad then?

Bilkos's report stolen from the Wigan site.
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How did Zak Dewhurst get on?

He made quite an impact when he came on. The hooker Maneely was also good. It was quite noticeable that England improved when he came back for his second spell and that allowed Williams to move back to scum half.