Re: England team : Sun Oct 25, 2015 9:49 am  

well that scoreline hasn't done the game any favours has it?

Re: England team : Sun Oct 25, 2015 4:49 pm  

meast wrote:

well that scoreline hasn't done the game any favours has it?

No it some times feels like RL hangs on in France by its finger nails. Maybe the high profile of French RU and the amount of money swilling around. makes it hard to recruit into the game at grass roots level?

Re: England team : Mon Oct 26, 2015 1:26 pm  

france didnt have any catalans players in their team i believe? so hardly the strongest outfit.

good to see ferres get a hat trick!

looking forward to the first test match now, prob be an unchanged team after that score

attendance 8380

Re: England team : Mon Oct 26, 2015 4:50 pm  

apart from Escare,Sigismeau, Bousquet, Maria, Robin?

nice for Brett yes, but hardly a career defining moment IMO,

it appears that the French team and set up have or are going backwards.
for me, we should look to other options for warm up games now.

Re: England team : Mon Oct 26, 2015 5:25 pm  

dont forget the french are competing in the european championship at the moment v scotland and co too

still not a nice score to see!

Re: England team : Mon Oct 26, 2015 5:41 pm  

exactly, they have bigger fish to fry than acting as bitches to England.

maybe bringing back the exiles would have been better? or an Australian XIII?

Re: England team : Fri Nov 06, 2015 12:06 pm  

same team again as expected and cant really complain after they got the job done last weekend

win this one and we go 2nd in world rankings, the aussies wont like being ranked the 3rd best

Re: England team : Fri Nov 06, 2015 5:32 pm  

brearley84 wrote:

france didnt have any catalans players in their team i believe? so hardly the strongest outfit.

Come on be fair- Catalan have hardly got any French players at the moment .....

Re: England team : Mon Nov 09, 2015 8:22 am  

Never should have abandoned the exiles - great concept & easy to sell and always produced good games imo

Re: England team : Thu Nov 12, 2015 6:36 pm  

mcgillvary to make debut ahead of burgess??

3 wingers in the 19 this time

smith in too.