This really is a training exercise. Not really seen much of Myler with ball in hand considering the forwards are tearing France apart. Both his tries came from good support play though.
Offiah will be probably be seeing more pound signs the more points he puts on the board.
Although it's against poor opposition this will give Richie a confidence boost going into the game against Hull next week - his form has dipped slightly in the last 3 or so games.
[quote="SRLFC JK"]Anyone think Offiah slipped the french cameraman £50 to focus on his golden boy - the camera was never off him![/quote]
Think you could be right on this one......There were other good perfomances and good players didn't see the camera's on them much.....
He has played well Myler but you have to say that the oppostion was very poor.....Like someone said on the wire forum...Its like Saints playing Gateshead Thunder, you would expect players to look good against them
England kicked off the post-World Cup era with a 12-try demolition of France in a one-sided mid-season international in Paris tonight.
Coach Tony Smith was looking for a pick-me-up after England's dismal World Cup campaign last October and he fielded a young side full of in-form players for a match with the under-strength French.
They did Smith proud, 19-year-old Salford scrum-half Richie Myler claiming a hat-trick of tries, with the others coming from Michael Shenton, Danny McGuire, Peter Fox (two), Ryan Hall, Shaun Briscoe (two), James Roby and Sam Burgess.
Myler took his haul for the evening to 30 points with nine conversions, six of those coming before the interval which England went into 44-0 up.
France, led for the first time by former Great Britain scrum-half Bobbie Goulding, were embarrassed in the first half but improved after the break, with Jean-Philippe Baile and Cyrille Gossard getting their tries and Thomas Bosc booting two conversions.
The second half was less of a run in the park for the English, but Smith will be satisfied with his players' performance. They now have the end-of-season Tri Nations to look forward to now.
England's previous highest score against France was 73-6 back in 1996 in an international in Gateshead.
But given the scratch team France were putting out, many were confident that record would be under threat. It almost materialised, but not quite.
Goulding was missing seven key players - including Dimitri Pelo, vice-captain Olivier Elima and big forward Jamal Fakir - and Les Tricolores were coming off a World Cup campaign that saw them pick up the dreaded wooden spoon.
Their last win over England came in 1981, but it was clear from the off that Smith had nothing to worry about tonight.
It took eight minutes for England to claim their first try - and after that, it was a procession in front a sparse crowd at the Stade Jean-Bouin.
Castleford centre Shenton took a pass on the burst down the left channel to go over for the opener before McGuire started and finished a length-of-the-field move for number two.
It was embarrassingly easy even at this early stage and worse was to come for Goulding, who was holding his head in his hands from almost the first whistle.
A cricket score was in the offing as Myler grabbed a quick brace, his first coming when he was on the shoulder of a bulldozing Burgess before he took a sensational offload from captain Jamie Peacock to barge over for his second.
Myler, in great form for Salford this season and targeted by Goulding himself as a man to watch tonight, converted the first four and but missed the next two following scores by wing duo Hall and Fox.
Myler took a massive hit from France centre Baile but was still able to make a quick play-the-ball, while Baile was on the floor in agony, to enable Fox to go over in space on the right.
Debutant Hall, the in-form Leeds flyer, went over in the other corner in the 26th minute.
By that stage it was 32-0 to Smith's men, with the beleaguered Les Tricolores bruised and battered.
Briscoe picked up a brace of tries, converted by Myler, before the half-time bell, which would have been music to the ears of Goulding.
France were first out for the second half, no doubt with their ears ringing after 10 minutes with Goulding, and they were far better after the break.
They managed to put points on the board in the 43rd minute when Baile ran onto a Bosc kick to catch and ground in one movement.
And England did not have things all their own way, although their tries kept coming.
Two replacements combined for their ninth, Eorl Crabtree popping up a pass for Roby to crash over.
And after a male streaker had held up England's charge on the hour mark, Myler - completing his hat-trick - and Burgess went over for two more.
Fox and Gossard traded scores in the final 10 minutes but the night was comfortably England's.
[quote="Mr James ROwley"]Unable to watch the game tonight but the coverage on BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA is top class.
They have just hinted that Richard Myler will be at Warrington Wolves next season, but hey nothing new on that one I suppose... :roll:
WELL DONE RICHARD MYLER....
THE SALFORD CITY REDS INTERNATIONAL.
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They will have just been picking up on all the rumours, as it has been said that Wigan are just as interested if not more. There are still talks going on with Salford I think Offiah is destroying the franchise system, I don't want to see certain clubs, taking other clubs top players after the time that club has invested in them.
richie vaule has tonight just shoot through the window so if the big boys , ie st helens , leeds , wigan , bradford , wires , can come up with £ 500, 000 we might listen
red devils the originals
salfords support at wigan was the best they had ever seen from away fans , quote from cherry and whites website
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