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[Honor James]

The BARLA Great Britain Lions squad coached by Paul Crary and Tony Spence to face the South Sydney Juniors an open age side from the famous South Sydney Rabbitohs has been announced.

The game will be the climax of the South Sydney Juniors four game tour after they have played against Yorkshire, Cumbria and Lancashire respectively and is part of a double header taking place at Sale RUC, Heywood Road, Sale Manchester on Saturday 6th October 2.00pm kick off..

Before that game the BARLA Great Britain Emerging Lions play the Central Coast Centurions at 12 noon followed by a ‘Mini; War of the Roses and a big crowd is expected at the game. It then gives you plenty of time to get to the Stobart Super League Grand Final at Old Trafford ‘The Theatre of Dreams which is three tram stops away from the venue.

BARLA Great Britain Lions Head Coach gave his thoughts on the and the forthcoming clash, “We are looking forward to playing really we have trained hard and wsell over the last few months. We were patchy when we played the Army last month, looking atthe tape we looked good at times but we just want a bit more consistency.

“The squads changed a little bit from when we first startedfrom a squad of twenty six to which with injuries whittled it down to twenty two so now we are just looking forward to playing the game now really. We are looking atht egames the South Sydney Juniors are playing against the Three Counties and anybody who impresses coukld make their way into the squad. What we are looking for is building a squad over the next twelve months which we can refine and become a major force.

“Any side that comes out of Australia is a good side because thry have more rugby players in the Penrith area than the whole of Great Britain. So they are going to be a good side and have already beaten Yorkshire. I will be at the Cumbria and Lancashire games over the next week to assess them.”

SQUAD
Carl Booth (Myton Warriors), Pat Foulstone (Dewsbury Celtic), Mike Johnson (Skirlaugh), Scott Lofthouse (Kells), David Lowery (Kells), Adam Nicholson (Dalton), Tom Radley (West Hull), Francis King (Wath Brow Hornets), Adam Thomason (Leigh Miners Rangers), Leigh Reintoul (York Acorn), Ricky Hough (Myton Warriors), Jamie Fields (Hunslet Old Boys), Danny Lynch (Pilkington Recs), Jonny Goulding (Cockermouth Titans), Shaun Squires (Shaw Cross Sharks), Tommy Harris (Skirlaugh), Karl Dixon (Wath Brow Hornets), Richard George (Seaton Rangers), Kris Walker (Myton Warriors), John Paul Brocklebank (Egremont Rangers), Rhys Davies (Egremont Rangers), Richard Dunham (Myton Warriors).

Head Coach Paul Crary, Coach Tony Spence, Physio Dennis Sunman, International Manager Mick Turner, Manager John Jefferson.

Steve Manning
BARLA Media Manager

[mick wilson]

Surprised there's no Barrow Island & Millom lads in this squad, especially after just helping to destroy Sydney ?