Me too. Familiarity breeds contempt. Ive seen Saints win everything in my time but never had much to cheer on the international front. Plus its quietly satisfying cheering for players you hate at club level. The sport really needs a bigger status internationally. Come on England!!!!
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Watched my first England game 1958 up at Saints.
Reckon Aussies got ahead 1966 ish, full tours, we were still in there giving a good account of ourselves, club sides could still beat their second string in the mid week games, weekend games went to the top clubs against their first string, last game I recall was a Tuesday night game, packed KR, Ashton turned an A team out.
Losing that semi in 2013 was gutting we were seconds away from a World Cup final 75,000 sell out at Old Trafford,that place would have bounced that night.
screaming in the family corner, scaring the kiddies
Rumour has it the France vs England warm-up game will be on the BBC.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McNQ_fGa_uU
Aus v Nz here if you missed it
I love the internationals. Can't make London (Billy Connely in Sheffield) but Ill be at the rest and the final
That sounds about right, Saints were beating the NZ/OZ touring sides up to about 1965 and still making a fist of it for a couple of seasons after. In 1961 the saints team had a lot of young players with Sullivan,Karalius and Huddart the senior influential players. The young set were:-
Frank Barrow (18)
Ken Large (22)
Alex Murphy (22)
Ray French (21)
Brian McGinn (21)
Keith Northey (21)
Cliff Watson (21)
Sam Burgess named England captain. Thought it would have gone to Jammer but I suppose Burgess will play more minutes.
Forwards win games. The backs decide by how much.
I hope this Sam's reign is longer than the other guy. Great player, hard as nails.
Martin Sadler in RL Express was saying that there probably wasn't much difference between the two from a captaincy viewpoint but that selection of Burgess was probably the preferred option because he'd be on the field for longer. He also thought that would provide a good PR springboard for RL given the greater public/press awareness of who Burgess is.
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