I'm happy with the games so far some good rugby league being played, need to cut out the errors and and completion rate needs to be better, score line could of been worse for the French...

Bored, switched over to Star Wars on ITV!!

It bored me too. I'd rather watch a Knights v England 3 match series or enter the knights in the competition rather than the full side. Hate watching these one sided games

Game, waste of time
Commontary, waste of time
France, waste of time
England, waste of time
Score, waste of time
Wales, waste of time
Posting this, waste of time
Playing teams that are proper crap, waste of time
Game next week, waste of time
Them in the box at half time, waste of time
Venue, waste of time
Hock, waste of time

England in no win situation.
If they do not thrash the French it would be Mcnamarra out and no credit given to French.
If they win easily, opposition poor, event waste of time.
Remember the bulk of the French side are Superleague players, so its the best test the team can get apart from NZ and Aus.
Would still rather watch than childish Sci Fi.

I'd take us to beat Wales and France!!

Why not have a three game test England v the Rest (French/Welsh/Irish and Scottish) combined side...??

Or how about meaningful test series (GB) v Oz, NZL, France?

great game for an english patriot, bit of a boring game as a full package on display advertising the sport. And like the wales game the commentary is shocking, calling the french defence welsh defence doesn't help for a start!

Waste of time, better playing the Exiles, mind you they beat us. Exiles would be a better test for us for when we play the world cup next year, do you ihink

The reason England are playing Wales and France is because NZ and AUS decided their players needed a rest this year...

If we had a proper international calendar including first and second tier competitions, this could be factored in if required.
As it is it all looks thrown together pointless games in tiny stadiums passed off as big games; I mean Salford for a final???

Westgate Wolves or Normanton Knights would have give them a better game, at least they would have knocked them about, sorry but you do not gain anything from these games.

Salford, come to think about it,they could move it to Leigh sports village

Surely that would never happen??

how can anyone be happy with that. all these games have been a farce. they are more like training games. no one likes them. no real competition. what a waste of money taking the players for a freebie to south africa and wait for it! for altitude training.
they would have been better using the same money to take them to oz or new zealand and played some real rugby. i know they would have got walloped but i know it would have been entertaining. they could have toured for a few weeks as the lions and got some real experience. just recently english rl has been the biggest joke in sport following the bulls fiasco and all the rest of the rubbish that has been going on. roll on the aussie rugby starting

What a good post, well done

Screw the Aussie rugby, roll on the start of the new SL season.

They was only in SA a week or so, not really the same as a full tour down under and it's hardly a either or situation.

Not sure what's wrong with altitude training, or that the RFL took the England players to SA, all the top athletes go to places like SA or big Bear in the US to train at altitude. It will have been a good place for them to train and something different for them to try, so I'm not sure how you can say it was a waste of money, unless you were there to see what they did.

You can't win though, for us to get better teams like France have to get better & more competitive themselves and the only way that's going to happen is if we play them more often, just like we want to play Aus & NZ more to get better.

the most pointless tri-nation ever . you'd better be hoping for devo or hadrian's wall to be erect again cos one day we will rule the world .

T.V.
Telephones
and we have N-Bombs over the border.

anno am ur bampot, how? polis . a-wiz-nae dobber goon jaked nor meltit mingin.
naw naw naw naw naw .

never post after a skin full

This just about sums it all up for me.
Just one other waste of time, why was Morley played - he's been a great prop, no doubt about it but wasn't this an ideal oppertunity to bring in a younger prop with a view to competing in next years world cup that Australia will more than likely win. Surely he won't be considered for the world cup?

Now thats where you are wrong if we take that attitude, and every one stops watching these games, where is the money coming from to train up the next set of England lads, to pay for our games to play Australia/New Zealand, to keep spreading the game, I know there are hard line old fashioned fans that have narrow minds and think the game should just be played in the North East,North west, when going to games like these you have to look at the bigger picture, as game develope out side the heart lands, we will unearth more England/Scotland/Welsh and Irish players, then the game will get stronger, it will take a good few years decades for it to take hold, but we must keep pluging away for the good of the game, the future fans game.. now I will look forward to the nit picking, narrow minded comments WELL get on with it..

The point is that, the Autumn Series is just not competetive.
Unfortunately, the stance taken by both Australia and New Zealand, has left England without any decent opposition.
Although probably less popular with the viewing public, England should have used many more of the fringe players to see if there were any capable of stepping up for the world cup next year.
As I have posted elsewhere, the TV exposure is excellent but, with the predictability and lack of a decent contest, this does little to enhance the image of our sport.
Our small grooup have always attended the end of season internationals but, this year we have given them a miss.
Btw, yesterdays game would have been better, staged at Doncaster rather than at a building site.
KR's improvements will be excellent but, again, it looked awful,as an advert for the game.

It was boring true, but from my point of view not entirely so.
I do not, and never have liked McNamara and I detest Hock so I was supporting France and was hoping they scored. so when Kane Bentley went over my day was not totally ruined.
Now have 1 week to learn Le Milles (sp) though I may have to learn French first.

I stopped watching Wales vs England after HT and I put up with 33 minutes of it yesterday.

I'm not even sure if I like rugby league anymore, I watch Wakey because its Wakey, but I get bored watching other teams.