England V ASSRL

[josie andrews]

England Academy team to face Australian Schoolboy on Saturday.

1 - Matthew Russell (Wigan Warriors)
2 - Ryan King (Wigan Warriors)
3 - Jordan Thompson (Castleford Tigers)
4 - Rhys Evans (Warrington Wolves)
5 - Reece Lyne (Hull FC)
6 - Gareth O'Brien (Warrington Wolves)
7 - Sam Powell (Wigan Warriors)
8 - George Burgess (Bradford Bulls)
9 - Adam Milner (Castleford Tigers) (capt)
10 - Ben Evans (Warrington Wolves)
11 - Danny Bridge (Wigan Warriors)
12 - Jack Hughes (Wigan Warriors)
13 - James Laithwaite (Warrington Wolves)
14 - Adam O'Brien (Bradford Bulls)
15 - Jared Stewart (Leeds Rhinos)
16 - Greg Burke (Wigan Warriors)
17 - Matthew Sarsfield (Wigan Warriors)

http://www.wiganwarriors.com/WContent.a ... &type=news

[The Eclipse]

The biggest surprise for me is Cain Southernwood misses out at no.6 to Gaz O'Brien.
Also i thought Carl Forster would have been one of the props.

[bourbon_rat]

ASSRL team list

[The Eclipse]

ASSRL team list

Thats a very powerful team, strong across the park. I think Harry Seijka is the player England need to keep an eye on though, he has a good "show and go" so if the defence gets a bit lazy he will carve them up with his speed.

England will probably hold them for 15 minutes then their lack of match play will see them drop off tackles and drop he ball (same old story).

[cpwigan]

Henare Wells will impress British RL fans IMO

[The Eclipse]

Australia lead 30-18 with 20 minutes to go, for England's sake i hope it dosen't blow out much more.

For anyone who went, can you give an assessment of the game ?

thanks.

[The Eclipse]

Amazing stuff, it was after 2am here in Oz and i was heading for bed, i thought i would get one more update and in that time England scored three times and went on to win.
Well done to them.


Also, did Micron cover the game

[The Eclipse]

Thanks for that, interesting to hear your comments re: Sarsfield, i thought he may have been one of the players who would struggle at that level but happy to hear he played well.
According to Luke Burgess twitter, Jack Hughes got injured early - is that right ?

[GeoffN]

Englands scorers were Powell(2), King, Bridge, Sarsfield and Thompson.
O'Brien 7 goals.

Not surprised to see Burgess getting a lot of praise - he was outstanding against us in both reserve games.

[cpwigan]

The game was farcical, destroyed by one Mr Ganson. I actually felt sorry for the Aussies by the end. England played well but conditions were really difficult. Damn cold and constant drizzle. Why was Ganson even given such a game after what has happened to him. We cannot complain about Aus referees when ours do exactly the same and worse.