I must admit, I've known about the England vs Australian Affiliated States game for about a month or so now, and have been waiting for it to be announced to see how people react to it. Of course, the AAS team isn't going to be much opposition to England, however the benefit of it is that it's being played in Perth (apparently at Wayne Bennett's request, as he is using Perth as England's pre-RLWC base) and that some players that I know of in the local league here who were going to go to union (or did for one or two games) are staying or have come back to League as they want to make this AAS team and play against the likes of the Burgess boys, James Graham, ect. There is already interest from the WA sports fans in this game too. It won't be until October, but there is interest here already, so it can only be good for promoting League in a non-traditionally League area.
