Re: England 19-man squad for RLWC Semi Final : Wed Nov 16, 2022 10:29 am  

Exactly, pieman.

Re: England 19-man squad for RLWC Semi Final : Wed Nov 16, 2022 1:36 pm  

International match next year against France in April,thats a start

Re: England 19-man squad for RLWC Semi Final : Wed Nov 16, 2022 1:43 pm  

Jason65 wrote:

International match next year against France in April,thats a start

yep, just posted the link on warriors fans. Tickets look reasonably priced for early bird, so hopefully get a good crowd on

i would like to see either us tour Oz / Nz or one of the 2 over here in the Autumn with the top 2 sides in NRL / SL playing as warm up matches. Not quite the tours of the 80s / early 90s that i've watched, but some incentive to finish in top 2 and not too long a tour for the touring side

Re: England 19-man squad for RLWC Semi Final : Wed Nov 16, 2022 2:18 pm  

Jason65 wrote:

International match next year against France in April,thats a start

It is but why not stage the game in France to maybe give them a bit more of an advantage, particularly as the next World Cup is being held there.

Re: England 19-man squad for RLWC Semi Final : Wed Nov 16, 2022 4:42 pm  

Jason65 wrote:

International match next year against France in April,thats a start

It is a start but it’ll become pointless if the sport can’t get together and arrange a proper calendar out with tours here and down under.

Re: England 19-man squad for RLWC Semi Final : Wed Nov 16, 2022 6:02 pm  

3 comments about the France game,1 upbeat 2 slightly negative.
I for one will be going as will Pieman I suspect,hopefully Henngirl and MadDogg will as well.
More fans go,looks good and more money to England RL.
Surely that is a good thing as the game needs the money as we all know and every little bit helps.

Re: England 19-man squad for RLWC Semi Final : Wed Nov 16, 2022 6:06 pm  

I’d much prefer games against France to the make belief All Stars fixture. It’s not a fixture that will overly test us but it gets the players together and the main benefit is the development opportunity it gives the French.

I see the long term international calendar plan has been put back until the new year now. Let’s hope that’s because a good plan takes time and not because they’re struggling to get the NRL to commit to more than the odd one off international here and there. I suspect it’ll be more towards the latter.

Re: England 19-man squad for RLWC Semi Final : Wed Nov 16, 2022 8:18 pm  

There'll be no NRL players available for this game v France so it will be an opportunity for Waney so try some new faces in his line up. It will be interesting to see if he goes for players who at the season's end are never available or new faces with the talent to improve.

Re: England 19-man squad for RLWC Semi Final : Wed Nov 16, 2022 8:34 pm  

Would probably pick the team below for the 2023 squad. Newman, Dodd, Oledski and KPP should be phased in straight away with eyes on the likes of Gannon, Havard, Lewis, Nicholson etc for 2025. Hope there are some fixtures against Southern hemisphere opposition at the end of next year. I personally think a Six Nations comp with Tonga, Samoa and Fiji would be a fantastic route for the game to go down. A streamlined World Cup maybe has a place but I wonder whether a 16 team comp is rugby league trying to be something it's not.

Welsby
Makinson
Newman
Farnworth
Young
Williams
Dodd
Burgess
Leeming
Oledski
KPP
Bateman
Radley

Thompson
Walmsley
Ackers
Batchelor

Re: England 19-man squad for RLWC Semi Final : Wed Nov 16, 2022 10:00 pm  

No NRL based players will be available so it will be Super League only selection. Also no English players based at Catalans
will be selected.

Welsby,
Makinson, Newman, Wardle, Burgess,
Williams (c) Dodd,
Oledski, Ackers, Walmsley,
Farrell, Batchelor,
Cameron Smith.

Hill, Lees, Gannon, Harry Smith.