I've heard fans complain that youngsters don't get the opportunities
Heard groans of anguish when players leave to play a code with a higher international profile
And periodic grumbles about how Hall/Watkins should be dropped
Complaints when we're beaten (again) by Australia
Moans about the predictability of the league
Despair at the same few teams winning everything.

It's. One. F******. Game. Where we'll be missing a centre and a winger.

It does now but it didn't used to.

Well said Sir, Well said

I don't have any issue at all with players being taken for this one game. All teams pretty much will be hit. If it benefits the England cause, which it hopefully will then great. Infact, should really be two games out there if we are going to do it, do it right.

Moon back to centre for this game and Handley onto the wing, not going to weaken us all that much is it?

The 5/6 nations has always been a huge money generator for all the home nations. It has underpinned the club game for decades.

Leeds have two players in the squad Castleford have 3, Wigan and Saints also have 2 - so why are Leeds any worse of than teams playing the likes of Wakefield, Widnes, Salford, Leigh that weekend?

The club game in rugby union was an amateur sport until 1995.

"Allegedly".

Well that money I received in the late 80s/early 90s must have been a figment of my imagination then

The clubs still needed to be run, facilities maintained, kit purchased travel expenses paid

That is where the internationals came in.