Yes... already got my tickets for Wembley and they cost me £10 each.

My original choice was Brown at 6 with Brough at 7.... they have been the form half-backs this season and they play together every week.

Both now can't play so I would definantly want to try something new. Lomax has been looking superb so I would put him in.... Myler is unfortunatly the other 7 in the squad so it would be those two at half-back. It is only a trial game though so I would have been tempted to try Gaskell and Lomax. I just don't see the point of playing Sinfield who has had countless chances and never impressed.

Lomax.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

The one player I was really disappointed not to see in the squad was Jamie Foster.
How far do you think Kirk Dixon, Lee Mossop, Liam Farrell, Josh Charnley, Stefan Ratchford, Craig Hall, Jonny Lomax and Jodie Broughton are off the England squad?

Mossop, Farrell and Lomax should be in anyway.

Craig Hall's barely getting in the HKR team so I would think he is some distance off an international call up tbh

I would imagine they haven't been selling well but then again the RFL does tend to send a lot of emails out just before what it considers are the big games, regardless of the number of tickets being sold. But even if tickets don't sell well, the crowds were really low at the first Challenge Cup final too, apparently, and yet now we get sell outs so we probably shouldn't take too much from ticket sales this time around. If the match turns out to be a really competitive one with a great atmosphere - putting Perry in the Exiles team would certainly have helped that! - then it will sell itself next year, assuming it takes place next year, so long as the RFL dedicate a weekend to the game clear of all league fixtures (not just Superleague), play it somewhere other than dreary Headingley and price the tickets right.

Maybe part of future criteria should be a minimum of one player per team, so everyone in SL has some link to the game.

That would also stop teams like us from having 7 players involved in the game. Slightly unfair if you ask me.

No, the main point of this is to give the England team a competitive fixture, so it has to be as near as possible to the full England team, injuries (and the NRL lads) apart.

Only for the Exiles, the england squad should be the best 17 whoever.

It should be a mid week game and the teams should consist of the best players out there IMO.

No watering it down or making it fan friendly in anyway shape or form. For me it's a fantastic idea that if allowed to grow and played to it's strengths will catch on like a house on fire.

Let's not devalue it by placing team limits or fan picks.

It should be top players coached by top managers in our best stadia.

Taking injuries into account and the 3 unavailable lads in australia, if i were steve McNamara I would've gone with a 17 of:

1. Sam T
2. McGilvray
3. Cudjoe
4. Shenton
5. Briscoe
6. McGuire
7. Lomax
8. Graham
9. Sinfield
10. Crabtree
11. Westwood
12. Peacock
13. O'Loughlin

14. Robinson
15. Joel Tomkins
16. Mossop
17. Morley

I'll probably get alot of stick for putting Mossop in there but he has been absolutely outstanding for us this season, ive never seen him take a step backwards, he's having a better season than Joel IMO so if hes in there why shouldnt Mossop be? Peacock and Morley are only in there because of the unavailability of Ellis and Burgess but for real games we need to start forgetting about players like that. They are not the future they have been tried and tested and failed. We need to give new faces like Mossop, Lomax, Cudjoe and McGilvaray a chance.

I'd want to see England face the toughest opposition possible.

Isn't McGuire crocked, hence Sinfield playing 6 for Leeds?

Outside of the selection of Peacock at second row(where he simply isn't mobile enough to do it anymore) i'd be so much more excited to see a team like that on Friday then I will be at watching the ordinary team selected.

Clubs with no rep that could

Crusaders
Sammert/Witt/ Schifcofske

Quins
Dorn/Howell

Salford
Holdsworth

Cats
Dureau

Hull KR
hundreds to choose from

only 5 teams so 5 players

Dureu for me is actually better than Chase and Leuluai

Patten would be a good shout in a better side like the exiles.

Whilst I agree it would be nice to see all SL clubs represented I dont want to see players picked for the simple reason they play for a certain club.

But aren't 5 out of those 7 named half backs with 1 full back in there? Chase is the only Cas representative (I think) so you could only have 1 of those 5 in there at most.

It isn't as simple as saying 1 player from each team, cos as I've just said most of the imports that are good enough to be considered for the Exiles will all be halfbacks for the "lesser" sides.

On the subject of Dureau though, he's only come to light post-selection really. The halfbacks were nailed on well before his class has started to show, if it carries on to next year (which I hope it does, I'm looking forward to the game) he would definately be in contention.

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On the subject of the England team though, it winds me up a bit to see Sinfield at 6 for England, it just seems incredibly short sighted. Sinfield is a decent player, and can do a job a 6. But I'd have to look at it like this, who is more likely to be playing 6 for England in the 4 nations - Sinfield or Lomax?

None of the above mentioned qualify for England under the present management.

A. They are young.

B. They are very talented

C. They are at the top of their Game at present .

D. They qualify for England at the first time of asking .

Regards , EW

Sam Tomkins

given the quad i really think we are lacking in the back, i do not rate anyone they have in there bar sammy,

I can't help feeling its all a bit contrived. To me an exiles team without Either monaghan or Ryan Hoffman is laughable, these three are easily the best overseas players in the league at the moment. Two of these at least would be still considered for rep rugby if they were playing in Australia but they can't get in a team of overseas players for a "friendly"

And the England team is garbage but that is too be expected when it is being picked by a coach deemed not good enough to coach a club.

Joel Monaghan is injured, and Hoffman can't get in for them because there is already 3 from Wigan (drop Tommy but he's VC), and the same for MM with Wire, although somehow Anderson is in.