Ok So here is the canundrum England Vs Exiles are playing and we have to play salford i dont know whether this will be the case this year fingers crossed it is as last year they gave the option of a break if more than 4 people were on internationals but if they dont what will the team be?

Missing

Hodgeson
J.Monnas
M.King
C.Bridge
M.Monnas
L.Anderson
Morley
Westwood
Myler
Harrison

Possible Team

FB - Riley
Wg - Williams
Ctr - Blythe
Ctr - Atkins
Wg - Evans
Hb - Briers
SO - G O'Brien
PR- Carvell
HK - Higham
PR - Wood
SR - Mitchell
SR - Solomona
LF - Grix

INT - Mcarthy
INT - Clarke
INT - Cooper
INT - Laithewaite

What are your thoughts

Don't play on that weekend. Those 2 points could be vital

they gave the offer to have the break last year with the england vs france match but declined and i heard somewhere all the coaches have agreed to play that weekend?

Who is Myler going to be playing for that weekend? Surely not England?

hes in the elite squad but injury may keep him out of both

No need to take a break, that team is good enough to beat Salford even without ten internationals.

I'm sure the agreement is that they can only pick 4 for each team (Exiles/England) from each club, so the likelihood is that we will ONLY be missing a max of 8. Having said that, Myler and Harrison may still be injured, so they may be the extra 2??

Add to that, the game is on Friday, and our game is on Sunday, and they are allowed to back up, if the club want them to - so players like J Monnas, King, Bridge, Benny etc, may well back up on Sunday, perhaps as bench players, depending how much game time they have on the Friday?

dun think smith will risk them playing again within 2 days but yeah the team as i previously put down i think is still quite strong altho abit lacking in experience

Thats a good enough team to win end of!!

There is a limit to 3 players per club playing for the Exiles. Our current 5 will become 3 in the final 17. Not seen mention anywhere of a limit in the England squad.

Those that do play may well just back up and play again for us on the Sunday anyway - that happened recently down under with players playing on the Friday in the Aus-NZ and Country-City origin games and then again for their clubs on the Saturday and Sunday. Can't recall who it was, but I read of one player who played in the Origin game, then was up before dawn on the Saturday to catch a flight and then a long coach trip and then topped the tackle count on the Saturday night.

I think most of the player involved will play against Salford, maybe one or two who usually start might be on the bench, but otherwise we won't be too affected.

right so what if we go and lose? them 2 points may cost us 1st all because of some pointless friendly game? england will still be rubbish come october id rather not risk it tbh

I think we might see Hodgson and King and Joel in the Exiles side and Benny, Moz and Bridge in the England 17 which might result in the side for Salford looking like ..

1 Riley
2 Evans
3 Blythe
4 Atkins
5 Williams
6 Briers
7 O'Brien / Myler (if fit)
8 Wood
9 Mike Monas
10 Carvell
11 Anderson
12 Grix
13 Clarke

I/change from - Higham Solomona Cooper
McCarthy Mitchell

I think we'll have Brett in the team. Bluey has picked Web for his team. You only need one full back, right?

think brett will be above webb however they may want M.Monnas as the interchange hooker

If Richards doesn't play, then Hodgson in as goalkicker.

Cameron Smith and Billy Slater went from playing Anzac test to playing the Broncos at Suncorp for Melbourne the following day ......

Therefore, should worse case scenario occur and 6 - 8 of our lads feature in the Exiles game, I'd hope that not all of them sit the Salford match out. If they feel good and raring to go again, just get on with it. They're rugby players not fairies.

Will Webby be fit? He was on crutches after the CC match with Crusaders?

Only 3 players are allowed to play for the Exiles from each team. There's no limit for England though.

As I've said previously. If I was Stevie Mac, I wouldn't play Peacock or Moz. I'd go with Graham, Carvell, Coley and Crabtree in the front row. I wouldn't pick Myler to play either if Brough is gonna call himself English from now on, but he'd be in my squad. Bridge is a definite inclusion, as are the Benny's (H if fit). Atkins for me wouldn't make the team but would also be part of the squad.

I think our squad will be fine against Salford. Get it played and get the 2 points.

It was just a dead leg I think.


I imagine that a few players will be able to back up on the sunday, but I'm still not sure which of our players will play, as people have said, with McLennan picking Webb today, will Hodgson play?

To be honest I wouldn't want anyone backing up. It's only Salford were playing, so no point risking injury to any of our star players by putting their bodies under unnecessary strain.

It's ironic that we're all worried about not disrespecting Swinton in the Cup. Nobody cares about disrespecting Salford lol.

Eddie said on BootsnAll that he had heard there may be some agreement whereby there are no more than 4 players per club involved in total in the match. i.e. if you have 3 in the exiles team you'll only have 1 in the England team. Or 2 on each. That would seem a fair way of doing it.

Quote ="SEB"Eddie said on BootsnAll that he had heard there may be some agreement whereby there are no more than 4 players per club involved in total in the match. i.e. if you have 3 in the exiles team you'll only have 1 in the England team. Or 2 on each. That would seem a fair way of doing it.'" The Exiles team is capped at three players per club and it would be nice to see the same restrictions imposed on the England team - or a combined cap like they suggested on Boot 'n' All. This would work nicely for us but I’m not sure how this works with regards to the quality of international fixture - there's an argument that says it should be the best players regardless of any restrictions. We have Anderson, Hodgson, King and Monas x 2 in the Exiles squad so we will get at least two of those back for the Salford game based on the three player ruling. According to the Guardian, some of our players may well back up anyway: www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/wol ... d_matches/

Quote ="SEB"Eddie said on BootsnAll that he had heard there may be some agreement whereby there are no more than 4 players per club involved in total in the match. i.e. if you have 3 in the exiles team you'll only have 1 in the England team. Or 2 on each. That would seem a fair way of doing it.'" The Exiles team is capped at three players per club and it would be nice to see the same restrictions imposed on the England team - or a combined cap like they suggested on Boot 'n' All. This would work nicely for us but I’m not sure how this works with regards to the quality of international fixture - there's an argument that says it should be the best players regardless of any restrictions. We have Anderson, Hodgson, King and Monas x 2 in the Exiles squad so we will get at least two of those back for the Salford game based on the three player ruling. According to the Guardian, some of our players may well back up anyway: www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/wol ... d_matches/

Didn't Moz play at Hull two years ago after playing against France on the Friday?

I'd like to think a it would be a combination of using the squad players and have a couple of the younger internationals double up, not too many though

plus Myler will be fit for contention against Leeds, let alone this game.