It's a trial game with both teams playing 20-a-side with constant rotation. Has not even been given official international status. What does it matter? One of the reasons I was interested in going.

Inept...says Andy Wilson

Pleased you saw the sarcasm in my post.

You really are still smarting from having your agenda outed aren't you?

Hehe.

Who said it mattered?

For all I know, 4,382 might be a Smokeycalc interpretation of the attendance.

In other words, 2,191 turned up to watch 2 games each.

Nice to see you have left the ticket thread alone for a while. Searching around for how the RLIF spent that £2m windfall from 2000 I suppose?

World's best player back on with his kicking boots.

No need to worry now.

Have you been in touch with Sir Rodney Walker yet to tell him he's a liar?

World's best winger just knocked on with line begging.

14-14 with 7 minutes left.

Abysmal.

I knew england wouldn't win the world cup but this could be embarrassing, especially if they play NZ at any point.

Burgii G knocks on with attempted charge and try line begging.

How is former Golden Boot winner Anthony "Skinny Mini" Minichiello going in this game?

Great advert for Queensland Cup playing standards though.

Yes, he should be held to account for a comment two days after the RLWC final and months before the final accounts have been audited. Let's just ignore the other 10 articles I showed you from 2002 to 2013 and stick with that one.

Forza.

Charnley knock on 20 metres out from his own line.

Scrum feed Italy.

15-14 to Italy!!!!!

OMG!

Looks like the expensive training camp in south africa was really worth it.

They're just trying to fool Australia into going out on the lash all week

Cue all the usual cliches.

A good hit out, just what you want from a practice game, hopefully it's out of our system for next week.......insert as appropriate.

Campione del mondo! The WC is worth it already.

So what will McBananas excuses be. The weather or the Italians were too good for us. Clown

McNamara press conference bingo:

"Result wasn't important today"

"We got a lot of guys some important game time"

"I got a good chance to assess the key positions ahead of the real games"

"All credit to Italy"

"The weather didn't help"

"Oh crap!!!!!!"

Knights 52-16 Samoa
England 14-15 Italy

Says a lot.