And here are your 19 Chanticleers for the England game:

Gigot, Bernal, Ader, Miloudi, Marcon, Albert, Fages, Baitieri, Da Costa, Navarrete, Curran, Jullien, Goudemand, Belmas, Margalet, Escamilla, Escaré, Bartahu, Sangaré.

Casty, Duport and Simon have all retired from rep footy, Kheirallah and Maria are unfit while Garcia and Bousquet require surgery. Miloudi back in favour after being cut from the World Cup squad. He is a talent, but I get the impression he's also a bit of a nob.

A shame Bousquet and Casty aren’t playing, their size upfront would have been handy, France will be out muscled by England in this game.

Is Gadwin Springer just not selected?

Not sure. Not been playing for Cas lately, which doesn't help. Maybe injured?

Gale and Burgess S out for England. Gildart replaces the latter, didn't catch if they'd brought in a replacement for Gale.

Old chum Myler replaces Gale.

Albert and Curran out for France. Stan Robin and Paul Séguier come in.

Tierney in the Scotland squad.

England side for tomorrow:

Shaul; Johnstone, Lyne, Percival, McGillvary; Myler, Connor; Graham, Hodgson, Burgess T; Holmes, Whitehead; Burgess G. Milner, Thompson, Mulhern, Sutcliffe.

While Les Bleus go with the following 18:

Robin; Marcon, Gigot, Ader, Miloudi; Fages, Barthau; Canet, Da Costa, Belmas; Jullien, Goudemand; Baitieri. Yesa, Escamilla, Margalet, Marion, Seguier.

Well.... we scored.

Shows what a blow even a handful of injuries does to a nation with a small playing pool. It has to get bigger.

Squad for Wales on Saturday:

Ader, Albert, Baitieri, Barthau, Belmas, Curran, Da Costa, Escamilla, Escaré, Fages, Gigot, Goudemand, Jullien, Marcon, Margalet, Miloudi, Navarrete, Robin, Yesa.

Good to get the Wigan lads back in, and Albert.

Wondered if the England v NZ series was on TV and it is! On the BBC! Who knew? (not me)

Euro Champs games will be on the BBC website

Squads are in for the Wales game


Les Chanticleers:
Escamilla, Albert, Baitieri, Belmas, Da Costa, Gigot, Goudemand, Jullien, Miloudi, Margalet, Fages, Ader, Barthau, Curran, Marcon, Robin, Escaré, Navarette, Yesa.

Them:
Grant, Vitalini, Ralph, Butler, Connor Davies, Curtis Davies, Fleming, Jones, B Evans, Kear, Williams, Jenkins, Bennion, Morris, Lloyd, Courtney Davies, Olds, M Evans, Parry.

On paper, this is a should-win.

Pretty comprehensive. Some good tries as well - I like the way Cologni has them set up to play

Any highlights videos??

Seen a few on social media, but that's about it.
Safe to say that the general consensus on the OurLeague app was less than complimentary.

Squad for the Ireland game:

Ader, Barthau, Canet, Curran, Goudemand, Marion, Marcon, Albert, Baitieri, Belmas, Da Costa, Gigot, Jullien, Escaré, Navarrete, Fages, Margalet, Miloudi, Yesa.

Ireland go with:

Ward, McNally, E Ryan, Phillips, P Ryan, O'Keefe, Michael, Bienek, Gill, McCarthy, Bentley, Hope, Finn, Grix, King, McMahon, Byrne, O'Donnell, Higginson.

Again, __should__ win. Easier typed than done.

And there it is, we're off to the World Cup. Tough game. Don't think Ireland will be far short next week in Wrexham. Meanwhile, it's Scotland in Carcassonne next Saturday and a draw will be enough to win the European Championship for the first time since 2011

Samkins out of the third Test v NZ. Probably not a bad thing for England tbh. I don't think Williams and he has worked so well.

On to Saturday and can we seal the deal? Here are the 19 entrusted with the task:

Ader, Albert, Barthau, Belmas, Canet, Curran, Da Costa, Escaré, Fages, Goudemand, Jullien, Marcon, Marguerite, Marion, Miloudi, Navarrete, Puech, Robin, Yesa.

Lots of pressure early doors on Goudemond.

He's good enough. Plenty good enough. (I'm a huge fan already)

Scotland field a familiar face (and former Chanticleer), but Tierney is out injured:

Scott, Hall, Mariano, Clarke, Hutchinson, Robertson, Dixon, Moran, Glohe, Sidney, Turland, Hogg, Bell, Thomas, Brierley, K Bentley, H Bentley, Wilkes, McClean.

I know nothing.


Scotland made it tough for France on Saturday, though we didn't help ourselves with poor discipline and handling. Difficult conditions and all that and the result wasn't ever really in doubt. Trophy, World Cup qualification - can't really ask for a lot more than that from the last few weeks.

Oh, and I'm calling it: Alrix da Costa was the best player in the tournament.