early team news, george burgess out with a 4 match ban, also tomkins missing with a fracture and clarke with the injury sustained in the second test. richie myler to partner george williams in the halves (connor can step in if needed during the game i suspect). joe greenwood mooted to make his debut.

ticket sales looking pretty good also with only east stand upper not open for business yet, and the rest looking pretty full

I just hope we play Johnstone. I don't think I could put up with reading and hearing Wakey fans constantly cry ing over his exclusion for the rest of the close season.

There wasn't many left when I got mine the other day, should be a great crowd and hopefully game.

George Burgess is suspended, Sean O’Loughlin, Sam Tomkins and Daryl Clark are all injured. We could be forced to play Tom Johnstone at this rate.

Looks like it’ll be

Lomax
McGillvary
Gildart
Connor
Makinson
Williams
Myler
Graham
Hodgson
T.Burgess
Whitehead
Bateman
Thompson

Milner
Hill
Greenwood
Ratchford

Bench looks a bit light. Could start Milner at loose and use Thompson as a straight swap at prop off the bench (or start with T.Burgess on the bench)

Yes of course we could.

Much as he's a fine athelete and an excellent RL player, he wont be filling in at Prop, Hooker, Loose Forward or Scrum Half and with Makinson in such fine form, he'll be watching from the stands.

As one sage put it on the london forum recently, they finished just outside the top 4......or as us cockneys call it 5th

Glad Burgess was banned I though what he did was really bad advert for the game

so do I - there you go happy now?

Hilarious cockney wit as usual

No news on NZ yet though they seemed to pick up a couple of injuries in the last test. Expect them to be changed too

Yes they have got 3 Aussies in lol

I believe this comment is aimed at me so I have every right to defend myself... Only sage here is you, stop making a fool of yourself, coming from a guy that now thinks that because Wakefield have signed Danny Brough that we will finish bottom? I expect London will finish bottom of the pile by quite some distance and you can run off back the championship with your tail between your legs after a season at at the big boy table. Maybe then you will go back to your boring self, getting your spreadsheet out and constantly talk statistics?

Can't be more than a few hundred seats left outside of that top tier so must be creeping towards 30k.

They’ve now opened tickets for the Upper East Stand as all other areas sold out. Think the Upper East Stand holds around 6-7000 of the near 38,000 capacity so if that’s all that’s left it looks like it’ll be over 30k for Sunday.

On for a record crowd for a NZ test, great news! Next challenge is get some international dates in the diary for next year and keep em coming back.

Anyone know if the matchday busses will be running from the station? Can only find info for Leeds United games.

Did walk back from there through Hobeck once after a football game. Never again!

yes they are i believe. they will go from the dark arches under the station near the scarborough taps pub

EDIT - [url=https://www.firstgroup.com/leeds/plan-journey/england-vs-new-zealand-shuttle-servicehere you go[/url They pick up on sovereign street now, near the Hilton hotel just down from the arches.

19 man squad for this Sunday:

1. Jonny Lomax (St Helens, Orrell St James)
2. Tommy Makinson (St Helens, Wigan St Judes)
3. Jake Connor (Hull FC, Siddal)
4. Oliver Gildart (Wigan Warriors, Wigan St Patricks)
5. Jermaine McGillvary (Huddersfield Giants, Deighton Juniors)
6. George Williams (Wigan Warriors, Wigan St Patricks)
7. Richie Myler (Leeds Rhinos, Halton Farnworth Hornets)
8. Chris Hill (Warrington Wolves, New Springs Lions)
9. Josh Hodgson (Canberra Raiders, East Hull)
10. James Graham (c) (St George Illawarra Dragons, Blackbrook)
11. John Bateman (Wigan Warriors, Bradford Dudley Hill )
12. Elliott Whitehead (Canberra Raiders, West Bowling)
13. Luke Thompson (St Helens, Bold Miners)
14. Adam Milner (Castleford Tigers, Stanley Rangers)
15. Tom Burgess (South Sydney Rabbitohs, Dewsbury Moor)
16. Joe Greenwood (Wigan Warriors, Saddleworth Rangers)
17. Stefan Ratchford (Warrington Wolves, Wigan St Patricks)
18. Mark Percival (St Helens, Halton Farnworth Hornets)
19. Reece Lyne (Wakefield Trinity, Ideal Isberg)

Looking forward to seeing how Greenwood gets on

No Tom Johnstone then?!?!?

Pretty much expected that 19. Greenwood had to come in as we'd run out of forwards. The only surprises for me was Hill and Tom Burgess swapping and Thompson starting at 13 rather than being the second bench prop. Milner looks like he'll be used as a rotation hooker whereas I thought he may start at loose forward.

We lack a bit of size on the bench IMO but nothing that could be done about it.

Yeah agreed and could be pivotal in this game, The one thing that could’ve be done about it is that George Burgess’ eye gouge was really dumb, unnecessary and rightly punished. It’s a good job for him that we went on to win last week and we’re 2-0 up.

We are a bit light on the bench but NRL Superstars Josh Hodgson, James Graham and Elliott Whitehead can and will all play the long minutes.