Exiles game, full strength or experiment ?

[docbrown]

Give it a few more seasons and you might be able to hold a north v south game, now that would be worth watching.

Left field idea -

Northern England Rugby League vs Southern England Rugby Union

(awaits the cabbages!)

 

[deluded pom?]

Add player withdrawals in the fortnight leading up to game1 and we got the series we deserved.

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Add in McNamara's strange selection policy too. This is supposed to give England players' a real test we can't get elsewhere in the NH but McNamara then treats it like a trial match to give players a runout in an England shirt. Another reason why the English RL public are viewing the Exiles concept with suspicion.

 

[Teddyboy]

Left field idea -

Northern England Rugby League vs Southern England Rugby Union

(awaits the cabbages!)

Happened back in 1996.

 

[joedynamo]

Add in McNamara's strange selection policy too. This is supposed to give England players' a real test we can't get elsewhere in the NH but McNamara then treats it like a trial match to give players a runout in an England shirt. Another reason why the English RL public are viewing the Exiles concept with suspicion.

Aye, covered under point 1 of the post I quoted...most plans to improve the England RL side start the same way tbf;-)

 

[docbrown]

Happened back in 1996.

Really? Do you know what the rules were?

 

[deluded pom?]

I think he's referring to Wigan v Bath. One game of league and one game of union.

 

[nadera78]

Give it a few more seasons and you might be able to hold a north v south game, now that would be worth watching.

God, that's decades away yet. What would be interesting is Cumbria v London and South. Two pretty evenly matched teams, although the jammy ones would have much more depth in terms of semi-pro players.

 

[docbrown]

I think he's referring to Wigan v Bath. One game of league and one game of union.

Oh right, I've seen that match. I thought he meant there was an Aviva vs Super League match.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Lol

 

[Teddyboy]

Oh right, I've seen that match. I thought he meant there was an Aviva vs Super League match.

Also St.Helen's played Sale in one half League and the other half Union in 2001 or 2002.

 

[deluded pom?]

Saints and Sale was actually 2003 so you're not as old as you thought you were Teddy ;-). Leeds are looking at playing a hybrid game.