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Divorty was a late withdrawel and replaced by S.Hill in 2nd Row and Middleton dropping back to loose forward. S.Chick?? was the new reserve.

A Moscow team played the curtain raiser before the First Test at Wembley in 1990 between Gt Britain and Australia.

Do you remember if it was a friendly or cup game?

Guessing I would say around 1990. The Leeds team from what I can make out from the commentary was G.Spencer Wilson S.Irving ?? N.Francis G.Jones M.Rowse? P.Worthy M.Smithson D.Young N.James S.Hill G.Middleton Subs: F.Maloney P.Mitchell Gill? ?? The ref was Fred Lindop The Russians warmed up before the game with half their team doing a number of forward rolls on the field.

I have come across a game between Leeds and Moscow at Headingley won by Leeds 34-16 however I can't find what year this was or if it was a friendly or in a cup game. Any long term Leeds supporters able to shed some light on this game?

Out of interest did Leeds have a captain in this game?

Exactly, the NRL do not have to compete with the premier league or a healthy rugby union competitor. In states of Australia like Victoria, WA, SA and Tas league is very small.

Imagine if they had Dave Smith the banker and a very capable man who was under constant attack from News Ltd who now have their men running their game.

Does anyone recall this RL show from the mid 80's? If so do you recall how many seasons it ran for, length, what games it covered and if it was a weekly show? Cheers

Great win by Saints.....now wait and listen to the whinging and excuses from the Aussies who think their third string teams can beat the English teams. I Too good Saints, well done!!!!

Surely they aren't going to be just called the Dolphins? Don't see anything wrong with being called Redcliffe Dolphins.

Its an increase on last years tournament .

He was president of the French League until 1981. He resigned after the infamous brawl in the Championship Final between Villeneuve and XIII Catalan.

This article in the Christchurch "Press" Newspaper on March 7th, 1973. Some may find it interesting. It was written by Kiwi half who played in Christchurch, Graeme Cooksley. He was spending the French season post 1972 World Cup with Avignon. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19730307.2.87?end_date=31-12-1979&items_per_page=10&page=3&query=rugby+league&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1971&title=CHP

Get rid of the ugly trophy also.

Interesting he says he would attend more England internationals and not club matches which is the view held on these forums to grow the game to new people.

I heard one of their officials saying they needed their own ground this would help in organising and growing the game.

This shows the crowd at the semi. Also a non rugby league person's opinion on the game.

Think you maybe correct as their agreement with the league is one year off out of 4.

I was referring to the 1970's ie 1970-77. For instance Manly had 3 English players in their premiership team in 1976. Had all the players contracted to Australian clubs been allowed to play as they are today I would suggest with the extra strike power of the forwards like Norton, Lowe, Lockwood, Reilly etc and halves like Bishop, Topliss etc they would have won the 1973, 1974, 1977 series they were involved in.

As an aside back in 1988 when the Sydney Football Stadium opened the NSWRL thought tickets for state of origin and tests should be of a higher value as they considered it top class entertainment so increased the prices. As a result the 40,000 SFS attracted 26,000 to the opening Origin game and 24,500 to the opening test. The people stayed away and watched the games on TV. Suffice to say they didn't make this mistake again the next time these games were played in future seasons.

Isn't this what the IRL Board were doing creating a program or is Mal and the NRL going to do their own thing as usual.

2 players from Super League, Lafai and Sao.

I think the comfortable wins gave them a confidence in the team they chose really needed a game or two under pressure to see where the weaknesses were. That first game v Samoa and QF could have been those games and to a lesser extent the French game.

Correct the lack of quality halves is a huge problem.