Heard last night that they have been allowed to play in the Samoa vs Tonga game which is next weekend and will miss the cup game, anyone else heard this?

Yea I heard that too I hope Radders says no

I imagine they put this in their contracts, hull would have hoped for a championship side, I would hope the players themselves would choose to stay for our biggest game of the season so far.

Great honour for both as captains. Ellis and Mini to come in.

I thought April fools was the first day of April not the last!

Exactly, Mrs B.



Sounds like this is happening which isn't great for us but we've signed two current international captains.



I'd far rather have this problem than still be signing players like Ben Galea or Ryan McGoldrick (no offence to those intended).

The reality is it's a pain in the backside for us. But a pack, injury-permitting, of Taylor, Houghton, Watts, Ellis, Mini, Washy with Bowden, Green, Thompson and Hadley on the bench is decent. A few in there will be desperate to get through to the next round too, time running out.

I don't buy this honour argument, I'm afraid.



As far as I'm concerned, next week's game at St Helens is the most important match of the season.



Missing these 2 players so they can travel half way round the world to play in a game between Samoa and Tonga isn't going to improve my chances of seeing a Wembley victory.



Time is running out for me as well.

You need to accept it's never going to happen. Then if it does, it's all upside.

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.... to be honest, it doesn't bother me, but I don't see why we should be expected to play an understrength team next week.



There were a few injuries last night, and that's only the obvious ones.



Mini was out for some time last season with a calf problem. Let's hope he's ok next week.

This is were RU is better. Their huge squads (and the increased SC)allow for teams with internationals and injuries to still field a decent team. There's also no arguments about not playing unless a player is injured, and rightly so.

Think Leeds had 7 on international duty and still had a match at the weekend not that long back.



Our international game is weak enough as it is, we need to ensure the likes of PNG, Samoa, Fiji Tonga etc get to play their big stars even at the expense of someone elsewhere, especially since Australia/NZ poach the cream often as not.

As pointed out, we still have a lot of talent and we just have to look at it from a positive angle and the personal achievement for our players.

They might get injured in any case.