England V Samoa, may 2017

[hutch]

From the guardian:

'But Matt Parish’s freewheeling, passionate Samoans led England 10-6 and 22-20 before tries by the Tomkins brothers, Joel and Sam, saved the day.'

Such a shame Samoa hasnt played the big three since that tournament....

England definitely struggled against Samoa. It will be a great game next year.

 

[morningstar]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...s/news-story/4edf19d62e90efa2ff2eb93fb448f1cc

TRIPLE TREAT FOR SYDNEY

SYDNEY will host a historic midyear international triple-header in 2017 as part of the build-up to the World Cup.

The Wayne Bennett-coached England side will play Samoa, while Papua New Guinea meets Tonga and Fiji face the Cook Islands. It will be part of an extended representative round when there will be no NRL matches that weekend.

Australia will play New Zealand in the annual midyear Test on the Friday night, with City versus Country on the Sunday — in what is set to be the final clash of the bush boys and city slickers.

It’s expected the international triple-header will be played on the Saturday but it remains to be seen how many Super League players would be allowed to play — meaning Trent Hodkinson, Darcy Lussick and Chris Heighingtoncould play for England.

 

[Burns]

A triple header? That's um, interesting. Will it be played at Allianz?

 

[adamkungl]

Lol they can't help making up stories about Aussies playing for England. Gotta keep that one going

 

[Panfas]

fixtures based on current RLIF world rankings:

Australia (2nd) vs New Zealand (1st)
England (3rd) vs Samoa (4th)
Papua New Guinea (11th) vs Tonga (15th)
Fiji (7th) vs Cook Islands (19th)

 

[jim_57]

Triple header seems like a bit of a joke, hard to expect the average fan to stay/keep interest for 6 hours.

For next year I would have prefered Lebanon V ??? join with England V Samoa then have a separate Pacific Double Header.

 

[adamkungl]

Yeah.. Samoa v England at least should be standalone.

 

[paulmac]

I tell you what though if it is tripleheader at SFS I might fly down for it.

 

[roughyedspud]

Lol they can't help making up stories about Aussies playing for England. Gotta keep that one going

I can't read the link but im guessing mascord wrote it??

 

[adamkungl]

I can't read the link but im guessing mascord wrote it??

Don't think so, he doesn't write for the DT

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Not point having it in Sydney if it's about promoting the WC..

 

[Burns]

Not point having it in Sydney if it's about promoting the WC..

Whilst I agree, where else would they play it then?

 

[IntRLEnthusiast]

Pumped!! I'm going for sure!!

 

[jim_57]

Whilst I agree, where else would they play it then?

No reason why they can't use it to heavily cross promote the 2 WC games, tickets offers etc.

 

[jim_57]

Yeah.. Samoa v England at least should be standalone.

Devalues the games a bit I think. Double headers max. As posted in another thread from 201i onwards I would split the Pacific games to Polynesia & Melanesia Cup/Shield double headers. Then you could have NZ V England & Lebanon V whoever every year, making it 6 regular midseason Internationals in Australia/NZ/Pacific alone.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Whilst I agree, where else would they play it then?

Well, I don't think it has much to do with promoting the WC really anyway so Sydney it will have to be. Quite frankly the PNG game should be in POM regardless of who they play.

 

[roughyedspud]

A england v samoa & tonga v lebanon double header in sydney could promote the WC

 

[jason1359]

I'm happy with the triple header but it's a real shame Lebanon don't get a run befor the World Cup

 

[roughyedspud]

Thats why its important they play next may,we need to introduce the team to the lebanese-australians...i reckon we could easily see 30k lebanese fans turn up at the SFS if we promote the team

 

[jason1359]

Agre

Thats why its important they play next may,we need to introduce the team to the lebanese-australians...i reckon we could easily see 30k lebanese fans turn up at the SFS if we promote the team[/QUOTE

Thats why its important they play next may,we need to introduce the team to the lebanese-australians...i reckon we could easily see 30k lebanese fans turn up at the SFS if we promote the team

agreed lebenon have a great supporter base a game in May would be great for the World Cup 17 lebenon vs South Africa or even Vanuatu just a game to get the fans behind them