England v australia academy : Sat Dec 15, 2018 5:51 am  

England won the series 2-0 with an 18-6 win at Leeds. a thoroughly dominant display they totally outplayed Australia.

Re: England v australia academy : Sat Dec 15, 2018 9:47 am  

tad rhino wrote:

England won the series 2-0 with an 18-6 win at Leeds. a thoroughly dominant display they totally outplayed Australia.

Fantastic effort. From the bits I saw the young Leeds forwards were terrific. Also how great is it to see an English half who can tackle like a forward in young Harry Smith

Re: England v australia academy : Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:14 am  

yes. the Leeds forwards were great as was Wilson from the bulls. both halfs backs were good as was saints full back welsby?
only Aussie try was off a kick. they were as poor as Aussie academy side I've seen

Re: England v australia academy : Sat Dec 15, 2018 12:40 pm  

England really bullied them over the 2 games, and were excellent. Australia were really disappointing, it's the worst back line I've seen any Australian team bring over at any level.

Re: England v australia academy : Sat Dec 15, 2018 4:04 pm  

Good game. Smith, Smithies, Holroyd, Newman all good, as was the fullback - the English one - whose name I don't recall,

Re: England v australia academy : Sat Dec 15, 2018 4:06 pm  

welsby? from saints I believe

Re: England v australia academy : Sat Dec 15, 2018 4:18 pm  

Yep, that's him. Looked very good.

Re: England v australia academy : Sat Dec 15, 2018 7:53 pm  

Charlie Sheen wrote:

England really bullied them over the 2 games, and were excellent. Australia were really disappointing, it's the worst back line I've seen any Australian team bring over at any level.

Great! I’m already looking forward to watching them turn out for SL sides in a few years!

[Matt_Horton]

Re: England v australia academy : Sat Dec 15, 2018 8:49 pm  

Thought Owen Trout was superb.

Re: England v australia academy : Sat Dec 15, 2018 8:58 pm  

Historically we have always done well against them. Difference is most of their team will go on to do really well in NRL whilst the majority of ours will end up in the championship or on a building site