Both have withdrawn from the Exiles squad after picking up "knocks" - Eric called up.

I'm sure it's nothing serious and they'll be fine after a rest this weekend.

Perhaps Rangi Chase can change his nationality back to New Zealand and help out?

There isn't much time, but he seemed to manage it last time.

Good news for Wigan if its just a knock. Nice week off

Nice move by wigan, Finch and Carmont wont be here next year so why risk injury playing in a game that will have no bearing on their careers. Keep them fit for the club......lol, would look too suspect if Tommy and Jeff were pulled out as well.....

Agreed.

These Exiles games are a pointless waste of time with a worrying potential for injury.

do we care if it looked suspicious. The exiles is completely irrelevant and like you said will have no baring on their careers. It doesnt have the prestige of SOO and is a nothing game that to be honest doesnt even mean anything to the fans. Keep them fit for Wigan and stick two fingers up at the RFL and its attempt to mirror Australia by a creating tin pot series of matches that just puts more strain on the players and risks injury by playing more games in a short period of time ala the Easter period.

should have had a 2 game series of McBananas england aganst the form England players........lol

Not a jot . Pitty Sam and Josh are not "injured" as well .

Or real England players against plastic England players who opted to play for other countries first .

To be fair, if Wane says that you're injured, then you're injured!

Lets hope they are just "injured" and Wane's pulling a Tony Smith.

Some of the comments on here epitomise why RL is and always will be a marginal sport. Think you'll find that Finch and Carmont are injured and that IL and the club are keen to promote the international game (what's the realistic alternative to a mid-season Exiles game?) and that having so many players called up reflects well on our club.

Similar attitudes are displayed in football (especially by the big clubs) when it comes to international friendlies, even some competitive ones. I wouldn't call football a minority sport.

Its the same people who will be enraged when the next Tomkins brother defects to rugby union due to the lure of the international game.

This makes no sense whatsoever, care to explain?

Irrelavent as none of the Tomkins brothers have pulled out

Great news. Delighted

And that's quite a lure. Ask Joel ... assuming he can take time off bench-warming for the club reseves to reply.

The only meaningful game England can get without facing the superior forces of Australia and New Zealand and most fans on here are dismissing it as meaningless? Are World Cups or Four Nations meaningless? Because if we want to try and win one of those any time soon then we should all support the concept as it's the only way of giving any serious preparation.

We should all want the strongest possible Exiles team facing the strongest possible England team - regardless of club loyalties - because I for one want to see a day when Wembley has 90,000 League fans cheering on a competitive England against Australia - and I think the Exiles series is a great step in that direction.

As for if they're injured? I doubt they would be if Wigan were playing Warrington on Saturday.

Doubt all you want. You don't know one way or the other. End of.

Crikey. I wish Leeds were as defensive as you, we'd be higher up the table.

These two are injured as much as Ben Westwood is.

Are they both having operations this week then?

How do you know Ben Westwood is, are you his surgeon??

I love you guys who insinuate things and then get uppity when someone challenges you.

Despite your 'unbiased' suspicions, both those players could well be carrying knocks. Camont was limping by the end of the match on Saturday.

You wouldn't risk two of your star players in an international friendly if they were nursing knocks, any more than we would.