AS THE dust starts to settle on the Four Nations campaign, thoughts are already turning to next year – and they are not pretty. Many Super League sides play their first pre-season game on Boxing Day this year. If England reach the World Cup Final, the final game will be on December 2, 2017. Between […]
ZAK Hardaker feels the bad days of strife are behind him now he is at Castleford. The former Man of Steel was almost as well known for off-field misbehaviour as he was on-field brilliance. Hardaker was turfed out of England’s World Cup squad in 2013 for misbehaviour and ended up being fined, ordered to go on […]
MARK Percival admits the time for ‘fancy plays’ is over when England take on Australia. Wayne Bennett’s men failed to convince anyone they can beat the Kangaroos in London on Sunday and reach the Four Nations final. St Helens man Percival scored one of the seven tries that saw of Scotland 38-12. But he was […]
NEW ZEALAND may have edged England by a point – but they have hammered them in the soppiness stakes. The Kiwis’ nerves are just settling down after Shaun Johnson’s drop goal earned them a 17-16 Four Nations win on Saturday. But Tohu Harris is the undoubted winner of any off-field competition. The big back-rower showed […]
LUKE Gale has been told to seize the day and prove he can be an international player. For England coach Wayne Bennett has admitted the occasion may have got to the Castleford man in the one-point loss to New Zealand. The scrum-half also faces a fight for his spot as Wigan’s George Williams will play […]