Now at Leigh on Saturday 2 p.m kick off.

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will now be heading down for this game. Better then the other two locations.

metcheck says -11 on saturday.... cant see the game being on.... and if it is on, I'm not going to sit still in a stand for nearly 2 hours in -11

Don't they have under soil heating at the LSV? The only reason the game will be off if that's the case is because of the safety of the footpaths surrounding the ground as was the case last year IIRC.

Forecast isn't that bad.
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They do have undersoil heating so the game should go ahead.

dont know where i saw -11 then.



i might go after all now.

Lookinf forward to it, otherwise the girlfriend be draging me round the shops Xmas shopping and all that S***.!

Might have gone but for work, be nice to beat the Aussies with 5 Wire lads in the team.

4 of the starting 13 are Wire lads, Ryan Shaw didn't make the 17 though strange to see not one Saints player in the 17.

1 - Matthew Russell (Wigan Warriors)
2 - Ryan King (Wigan Warriors)
3 - Jordan Thompson (Castleford Tigers)
4 - Rhys Evans (Warrington Wolves)
5 - Reece Lyne (Hull FC)
6 - Gareth O'Brien (Warrington Wolves)
7 - Sam Powell (Wigan Warriors)
8 - George Burgess (Bradford Bulls)
9 - Adam Milner (Castleford Tigers) (capt)
10 - Ben Evans (Warrington Wolves)
11 - Danny Bridge (Wigan Warriors)
12 - Jack Hughes (Wigan Warriors)
13 - James Laithwaite (Warrington Wolves)
14 - Adam O'Brien (Bradford Bulls)
15 - Jared Stewart (Leeds Rhinos)
16 - Greg Burke (Wigan Warriors)
17 - Matthew Sarsfield (Wigan Warriors)

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Steve Ganson is ref



Wigan's Danny Bridge (Chris's brother I think) has scored Wire's O'Brien kicked the goal 6-0

Is this really U18s v Schoolboys? Pretty sure Gaz O'Brien is 20??

38-30 to England



Apparently Laithwaite had a top game and O'Brien kicked 7 goals

Not too many traditonal English names in that list.

Laithwaite had a good game.
George Burgess and Sam Powell were outstanding.

Rhys Evans sadly had a poor game by his standard.His wing partner Reece Lynne was terrible, considering he has had Superleague experience. He dropped the ball over the try line and then ran into touch whilst in the act of scoring with no one near him.

Englands scorers were Powell(2), King, Bridge, Sarsfield and Thompson with O'Brien kicking seven goals.
England should have been out of site by half time (Ganson crucified the Aussies).

Rhys Evans made a couple of early mistakes but was pretty sound after that. Brother Ben had put in a long stint at prop before going off after a clash of heads (the two rotation props had just gone off so looked like he might had done near enough the full eighty).

O'Brien was very good and consistent through-out and the better of the English half-backs for me.

Laithwaite got his second running man of the match for England Academy and continues to impress under the radar, although George Burgess was mom for my money.

Aussies discilpline was dreadful - they can moan all they want and although Ganson was at his pedantic worse they were their own worse enemies. Chatting back to Ganson continually will get you no-where. I expect they will look to fly Archer in for the return on Friday.

Well done England Academy.

Good win for the young lads always nice to beat the Aussies plus they have had a few warm up games together.

George Burgess is going Souths according to Bradford board, good for him and his game but not for Bradford.

went to the game and was amazed at the tackling that Laithwaite did for the full 80 at loose forward. He has a great passing game as well and is certainly one for the future for us. Much better prospect than Westerman at Cas/Hull. I'm not at all surprised he got MOM and for the second game running- brill. He looks like he just gets on with his game and does the hard work but he has alot of skill.
Ben Evans was also very good, although as a prop, he got overshaddowed by George Burgess who pushed Laithwaite for MOM. Burgess takes your eye because he is so effective with the ball in hand but a little static when defending and the quick Aussie hooker caught him out at least once.Evans was much better defensivly than Burgess.
The other Evans in the centre was at best poor, missed tackles and lost the ball a couple of times when running forward. Hes quick and aggressive and probably needs more time at this level. or perhaps he just had a bad day today.
O'Brien, seen him play a few times and was the second best of the 2 halfs. Powell, the Wigan lad, took the ball into the line much more than Obrien(twice in 80mins) and as a halfback this worries me. However Obrien has a fantastic kicking game and controlled his forwards well around the field.
i thought that Obrien at 6 and Laithwaite at 13 linked very well, good for the future at Wire.
On the whole a good day for England and looking forward to the 2nd clash next Friday, if its at leigh get down and support the Wire lads.
other point is that Sam + joel Tompkins and Oloughlin were all there supporting England and the Wigan lads. Bridge was there l guess cause his brother was there playing and representing wigan but i did not see any other Wire players?

Picture in one of the League newspapers this morning of the team and Laithwaite looks huge an he's standing next to Burgess, sounds like Rhys had an off day, hope it is moved to Leigh again so I can go straight after work on Friday.

Thanks for the great review,
From the little i have seen of him, O'Brien has a great kicking game and the England coach mentioned it in his after match comments.
Do you think O'Brien will keep his play for friday considering Cain Southernwood is in the squad and he has Super League experience and is highly rated ?

Fridays game now also switched to Leigh.

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Come on Wire fans get down to the LSV on friday night and support our future stars. It's only £3. It would be great to double last weeks attendance.

Engl 22-4 Aus HT in the 2nd test at Leigh

still got the ref in our pocket?

England were 26-4 up 10mins into the 2nd half, but the Aussies have pulled it back to 26-16 with 18mins left.

Bilko over on the Wigan board as the updates

32-16 Rhys Evans with a solo try