Sun 22 Oct: International: England v Tonga (at Totally Wicked Stadium, St Helens) KO 2.30pm

[dkw]

Thats a terrible pass by Radley,totally unnecessary. 

[bobbruce]

3 minutes ago, GeordieSaint said:

No matter the decision, both our centres made really poor reads in that set. Newman shooting off the line and then King not trusting Smith…

New and had a couple of bad misreads already. 

[graveyard johnny]

1 minute ago, dkw said:

Like I said, bizarre. 

how bizarre?

[meast]

43 minutes ago, phiggins said:

I was told that Amone has just had shoulder surgery, and Asiata missed the end of the season with injury.

I don’t watch much NRL, so cannot comment on the Tonga team, but if Amone is available, they must have one hell of a set of forwards to not even have him in the squad. And if that is the case, it will be bad news for England today, particularly when the bench forwards come on. 

I don't watch much NRL to be honest but I imagine if Amone/Asiata were as good as or better than Fonua-Blake, Frizell, Kaufusi, Koloamatagi etc then they'd be playing in the NRL and not for Leigh Leopards.

Edited October 22, 2023 by meast

[dkw]

Brilliant defence by Hull KRs Mikey Lewis.

[Old Frightful]

1 minute ago, graveyard johnny said:

how bizarre?

OMC?

[Leyther_Matt]

Can someone please tell me why the official band are playing ‘oh when the Saints’

GTF

[Mark S]

This game needs to be played in front of 60K spectators.

[GeordieSaint]

Good game. We are struggling to make any yardage. 

[Dave T]

Really good game so far. A real Test match. 

[Old Frightful]

Just now, dkw said:

Brilliant defence by Hull KRs Mikey Lewis.

I'll raise you "Shows what he can do when in a good team"...

[Futtocks]

Taffy Frizell puts Mate ma'a Tonga ahead!

[Midlands hobo]

41 minutes ago, NRLandSL said:

How long till Jon Wilkin gets sacked, can’t stand him. Probably as bad as Phil Gould, and that’s bad.

Have him waffling on over jjb 

[meast]

10 minutes ago, graveyard johnny said:

someone  put robbie paul and jonathan davies out of our misery plz

For those watching at home they are the annoying ones with the Welsh and New Zealand accents

[LeytherRob]

England have been really poor so far, way too many errors for international level.

[Rovers13]

Too good their ball movement is far superior. Happy money my way lol. 

[DavidM]

Can Frizell play for us next week on residency after being here at least 10 days 

[graveyard johnny]

we look rubbish - Australia would be 30 up by now

[NRLandSL]

Embarrassing

[bratman]

Hmm, good from Tonga, we're struggling a bit

[Guest]

Tonga fans brilliant. 

Going bonkers.

 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Very happy to be watching a really competitive and exciting test match on the BBC! 

[EagleEyePie]

Where was Welsby? Sitting ducks on our right edge there. Wales international Tyson Frizell with an easy score.

[bobbruce]

But Smiths line to the ball was straight through the lead runner he should never be hindered in that way it’s not Smiths job to avoid the offside player. 

[Old Frightful]

36 minutes ago, Keith989 said:

Please let this game be close. Another blowout would be heartbreaking. 

Looking like it may well be a blow out now...