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[adelwire]

Russell Crowe
by DaveWoodsSport
It looks pretty close, ESL team Warrington Wolves v South Sydney at Coff's Harbour in a trial 2012,that includes the legend Adrian Morley...wow that would be awesome.

[Harrigan]

Russell Crowe
by DaveWoodsSport
It looks pretty close, ESL team Warrington Wolves v South Sydney at Coff's Harbour in a trial 2012,that includes the legend Adrian Morley...wow that would be awesome.

We played them in a trial in Jacksonville 3 years ago. It was a pretty entertaining game too. Always good to put yourself up against an Aussie team at a similar time in your preseason.

[Hannibal]

Maybe Wire should concentrate on winning the league, and then they will get to play an Aussie team anyway.

[AndyCapp]

We played them in a trial in Jacksonville 3 years ago. It was a pretty entertaining game too. Always good to put yourself up against an Aussie team at a similar time in your preseason.

From memory it was hyped up and and Leeds put out a full strength squad whereas the Rabbits played a team of mainly second stringers and Juniors, it made the game a farce from what was promoted.

Leeds are fielding their best team, here it is.

The team in full is:

1. Brent Webb
2. Scott Donald
3. Clinton Toopi
4. Keith Senior
5. Lee Smith
6. Danny McGuire
7. Rob Burrow
8. Kylie Leuluai
9. Matt Diskin
10. Jamie Peacock
11. Jamie Jones-Buchanan
12. Gareth Ellis
13. Kevin Sinfield ©

Substitutes
14. Ali Lauitiiti
17. Nick Scruton
18. Ian Kirke
19. Carl Ablett
20. Ashley Gibson
21. Jordan Tansey
22. Ryan Hall
23. Danny Williams
24. Luke Burgess
26. Ben Kaye
30. Michael Haley

Souths are fielding more of a PL league team. Here is the Souths line up.
Leeds should win as they have already had 4 games under their belt.

1. Beau Champion
2. Shannon Hegarty
3. Yileen Gordon
4. Fetuli Talanoa
5. Germaine Paulson
6. Ben Rogers
7. Eddie Paea
8. Michael Greenfield
9. Issac Luke
10. Manase Manuokafoa
11. Ben Lowe
12. Luke Stuart ©
13. John Sutton
14. Beau Falloon
15. George Ndaira
16. Jaiman Lowe
17. Eddy Pettybourne
18. Shannan McPherson
19. Jamie Simpson
20. Sam Huihahau
21. Nathanael Barnes
22. John Taminika

Head Coach - Jason Taylor

Many of those Souths players are regulars now but were not three years ago.

Souths who fielded a weak line up team which didnt include the following players.

Merritt
Asotasi
Wing
Kidwell
Vagana
Smith
Fa'alogo
Widders
Geddes

Edited by AndyCapp, 25 April 2011 - 07:49 AM.

[Exiled Wiganer]

Crowe is a visionary. Wire are a visionary club. It's a good match.

[Maximus Decimus]

From memory it was hyped up and and Leeds put out a full strength squad whereas the Rabbits played a team of mainly second stringers and Juniors, it made the game a farce from what was promoted.

Why is everything in RL always a farce? Why can't it be disappointing?

[adelwire]

Maybe Wire should concentrate on winning the league, and then they will get to play an Aussie team anyway.

Fair point, but still think the idea is great as long as both teams put full strength teams out.

[1976PMJwires]

Maybe Wire should concentrate on winning the league, and then they will get to play an Aussie team anyway.

That's what we're currently doing Maybe this'll be the warm up game for the WCC In Oz

[Dave T]

Maybe Wire should concentrate on winning the league, and then they will get to play an Aussie team anyway.

That is actually a valid point, but I have often wondered why we don't make more effort with pre-season games. I'd love to see more touring teams, with possible mini-tournaments like they do in football. I appreciate that in winter this may be more difficult, but surely if clubs got together and staged a mini tournament the crowds would turn up.

I personally find the pre-season pretty boring, as usually we play Salford, Widnes and Wigan (the only really attractive match for fans). I'd love to see something like Warrington, Wigan, South Sydney and the USA Tomahawks (or similar) in a 4 game tournament over a week with double headers at the HJ and the DW.

Surely these games could attract interest from Sky, and I would expect they would attract bigger crowds than current pre-season games. Staging these in Britain (or France if Catalans were involved) would probably make financial sense with the current exchange rate.

[AndyCapp]

Why is everything in RL always a farce? Why can't it be disappointing?

Why should it even be disappointing?

Crowe built the game up like nothing else and made out like it was the Souths version of the WCC.
He delivered a team of second stringers and up and comers with a couple of regulars it was 26-0 to Leeds at Halftime until Leeds treated the second Half as a training run chopping and changing players.
If you are serious about a game (one of your own making) you would do all you can to have a full strength team, not the joke squad that went to the USA, that is why its a Farce. It was almost a late end of season Junket for the youngsters.

Edited by AndyCapp, 25 April 2011 - 08:34 AM.

[Celt]

That is actually a valid point, but I have often wondered why we don't make more effort with pre-season games. I'd love to see more touring teams, with possible mini-tournaments like they do in football. I appreciate that in winter this may be more difficult, but surely if clubs got together and staged a mini tournament the crowds would turn up.

I personally find the pre-season pretty boring, as usually we play Salford, Widnes and Wigan (the only really attractive match for fans). I'd love to see something like Warrington, Wigan, South Sydney and the USA Tomahawks (or similar) in a 4 game tournament over a week with double headers at the HJ and the DW.

Surely these games could attract interest from Sky, and I would expect they would attract bigger crowds than current pre-season games. Staging these in Britain (or France if Catalans were involved) would probably make financial sense with the current exchange rate.

I have often thought the same. However, it is probably the costs of putting on the tournament that put a club off. Unfortunately, we don't have professional teams conveniently located in europe who we can fly in. If warrington had to bring a couple of australian teams over, even if they could be persuaded to come, costs would be too high to make it worth warrington's while. Unfortunately 6000 (or whatever) punters at the HJ would ake the event a big lossmaker.

[thirteenthman]

I personally find the pre-season pretty boring, as usually we play Salford, Widnes and Wigan (the only really attractive match for fans). I'd love to see something like Warrington, Wigan, South Sydney and the USA Tomahawks (or similar) in a 4 game tournament over a week with double headers at the HJ and the DW.

Surely these games could attract interest from Sky, and I would expect they would attract bigger crowds than current pre-season games. Staging these in Britain (or France if Catalans were involved) would probably make financial sense with the current exchange rate.

Aussie clubs would never come here for a pre-season game. They have to be pursuaded to come over for the WCC!!! And the weather in January is so unpredictable you'd be hard pressed to get any teams over if they thought a game might be called off - as usually happens here anyway. The Leeds v Souths game in Florida was probably not a bad idea as you can guarantee the weather, and it's sort of handy for both teams (although I'm sure Souths might argue that one!!!) A tournament in Dubai or somewhere like that could work, but then you'd have the problem that the NRL starts a month later than the SL so NRL teams are only just starting pre-season games. They'd be unlikely to want to risk star players 2 months before the start of the season.