What an embarassment.

Whats happened exactly?

Has the four nations finished?

It was like a village fete.

The daft thing was that after the CD wouldn't work, the local band didn't stop throughout the first half.

did anyone else notice that band playing the theme from the classic childhood cartoon 'mysterious cities of gold'icon_biggrin.gif

The whole thing was an embarrassment to be fair.

International Rugby League,,,Even the England players had to laugh..

At least Wales will be there to keep us off the bottom of the table

These are the same sort of fans who don't mind their team having 11 overseas players.

What difference does it make? We produced the top scoring english centre in the game and he doesn't get picked so why does it matter?

You mean the centre who has been in Super League's top ten for missed tackles for three seasons in a row?

The form centre and he was overlooked, not even in the 24 man squad so what difference does it make if we produce English players or not they won't get picked

Hasn't this happened before?

I did, took me back right to my childhood. All we needed was the Golden Condor flying across the screen and all would have been forgiven for them stuffing up the anthem.

IMHO the shambles with the National Anthem and then the debarcle with the minutes applaus just shows that RL in France is run by a bunch of amateurs who don't know what they are doing.

Do you really care who cares.

You mean apart from Tomkins, Hall, Yeaman, Briscoe, Sinfield, Peacock, Roby, Graham, Ellis, ­Westwood, Widdop, Morley, Jones-Buchanan and Wilkin?

RL in France *is* (in the nicest possible way) run by a bunch of amateurs. Lot of volunteers put in time to push tickets & put on a great evening's entertainment last night. It's not an RL ground, they don't usually have to worry about the demands of TV and the crowd & band were sufficiently loud that it was hard to hear yourself.

It was kind of funny to watch the Sky guys shouting at them to hurry up because it was time for kick-off when they were trying to get the CD working. And they did manage to get it going for the end of the match

I think they were impressed that the England team just laughed it off rather than taking offence.

Lot of positives for French RL from last night - on and off the field. Not a mention of the game in L'equipe this morning, though. Not even the score.

Yes quite clearly all Rovers players

Eddie going on and on about it was more embarrassing than the actual non-event of the National Anthem

There's more to being a centre than scoring. His defence is terrible and international level he'd let in far more than he'd score. What other players have you produced who you feel warrant an England call up?

Agreed. He seemed to have a right bee in his bonnet about a number of things last night. Was an opportunity for Stevo to turn the tables and give him some stick cos Eddie usually can't wait to give Stevo some if he's being a bit grumpy!

You can't hide from the truth