Ok after the while week of I'm not going it's a pointless game etc, we must ask what exactly was gained from this rather pointless one sided waste if time?

It's a bit to far ahead of the 4 nations to really be a team building exercise and what can possibly Be learnt to defeat the south seas teams from a walk over of a depleted 2 string nation

1. Arent you Welsh, you should enjoy Casty and Ferriol knocking 10 out of Burgess and co.

2. Villegas is a SL quality full back, sign him up, sign him up.

3. Sam Tomkin's will soon if not already, be one of the best Stand Off Halves in the business, if he cuts his constant moaning down

4. Olivier Elima is proud as punch

5. Bobby Goulding cant wait to play Us, Ireland, Scotland because he may ahve a chance

6. There needs to be 2 weeks of mid season internationals.

7. We'll play France, your bunch can play Ireland mid season, their team would give a better challenge

1. Karl Fitzpatrick
2. Damien Blanch
3. Sean Gleeson
4. Stuart Littler
5. Pat Richards
6. Scott Grix
7. Liam Finn
8. Eamon O'Carroll
9. Michael McIlorum
10. Ryan Tandy
11. Simon Finnegan
12. Jason Golden
13. Tyrone McCarthy

14. Bob Beswick
15. Luke Ambler
16. Liam Harrison
17. Michael Platt

Give France B a workout against the best side you could put together?

??? No I'm not welsh I'm from Plymouth!

Nope he's not Welsh we've just taken pity in him

Got to agree - absolutely pointless game, just as i predicted last night.

It gave the Leigh "fans" chance to show how backward they are!

5.5k attendance. Jeezus H.

The RFL are making enough cockups with the structure and non-promotion of the international side of the game, and now they are turning their hand to goofing the actual setting up of matches...

So coupled with the absolute shambles that is the expansion of our blue riband league in certain parts of the world, the ridiculous chopping and changing of playing rules every 5 minutes, the utterly pointless adoption of England rather than GB and the embarrassment of calling our home international comp 'the 4 nations' because they couldnt think of something other than copying Union, what EXACTLY are this current administration doing to further the aims of Rugby League?

Nothing. Thats what. The only thing theyre doing a good job of is lining each others pockets.

=#8000FFIt was 7900 and odd?

Quote ="Gaslight"=#8000FFIt was 7900 and odd? '" Not according to this link which has it at 5.5k : www.skysports.com/rugbyleague/ma ... 45,00.html Even 7900 would be an embarrassing shambles.

Quote ="Gaslight"=#8000FFIt was 7900 and odd? '" Not according to this link which has it at 5.5k : www.skysports.com/rugbyleague/ma ... 45,00.html Even 7900 would be an embarrassing shambles.

Did it ..........

Quote ="Viking Vengeance"Not according to this link which has it at 5.5k : www.skysports.com/rugbyleague/ma ... 45,00.html Even 7900 would be an embarrassing shambles.'" Yep it would ve been 28k at the Smoggs Stadium........with half the attendance made up from Loiners who could n`t make the trip down sarth.

Quote ="Viking Vengeance"Not according to this link which has it at 5.5k : www.skysports.com/rugbyleague/ma ... 45,00.html Even 7900 would be an embarrassing shambles.'" Yep it would ve been 28k at the Smoggs Stadium........with half the attendance made up from Loiners who could n`t make the trip down sarth.

Meaning ???

Meaning she did n`t go and listened on SLY TV and otherwise she`s not got a clue.......... but hell lets not cloud the issue.

Nothing less than I expected. Thanks for living down to the stereotype!

DITTO

Well we got to see the best of Sam Tomkins.

But most of all we got to see a side that could be capable of winning the quad nations coming the end of the year.

As stated on another thread, the attendance was around 7950.

Did we? Did we really? The French were poor, worse than poor. It would be hard for anyone to not look good. However for about 20 mins in the first half when they scored that soft try(and it was the softest of tries) they held us and things started fallling apart, missed passes etc. Can this team win a 4 nations?

Next you'll be saying that England will beat the USA at Mo & Rons Kickball

Holding tests or any rep games mid-season won't do much to prepare France or England. However, the French team is on a hiding to nothing in this game - Super League based players are worked into the grounds by the cumulative effects of a gruelling Super League schedule, season after season, as [url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby/2010/02/14/super-12-row-115875-22041251/senior figures like Jamie Peacock identified[/url:

Wasn't one of the reasons to bring Catalans into SL to improve the International game and bring them up to speed ?.... The experiment isn't working and I would happily get rid of them in a shot in favour of a Halifax, Barrow, Widnes or Leigh... How many times are France going to get a mauling before we give up on the experiment ?

Do you as a Leigh fan, feel in some way responsible for yesterdsays attendance?

Catalans get far higher crowds than Halifax, Barrow and Leigh would achieve, and Widnes would probably only equal their crowd figures.

while RL as a whole needs to take the blame for last nights poor crowd, it won't do Leigh's SL's bid much good...if they can't sell 12k tickets on their own doorstep for an international, just how many are they going to get for SL ties with Quins, Salford, Crusaders etc?

it was'nt a leigh game.....hth