Former World Cup-winning Kangaroos mentor and four-time premiership winner Tim Sheens will return to coaching with the Combined Nations All Stars team to face England in June.
Sheens will take charge of the team of international players in Super League, which is expected to include Greg Inglis, along with fellow Australians James Maloney, Josh Reynolds, Joel Thompson and Bevan French.
New Zealand’s Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Tonga’s Konrad Hurrell and Manu Ma’u, Fiji’s Kevin Naiqama and Korbin Sims, Lachlan Coote (Scotland) and Regan Grace (Wales) are also likely to be considered.
Sheens, who took Canberra to premierships in 1989, 1990 and 1994 and Wests Tigers to their only grand final triumph in 2005, has been coaching in England since departing the Australian job in 2015.
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THE Halliwell Jones Stadium will host Shaun Wane s first game in charge of the England national team. England s first game since 2019 will be against a Combined Nations All-Stars team on Friday, June 25, kick off 8.15pm as part of an international double-header, with the England women s team taking on Wales at 6pm. Warrington Wolves are scheduled for a home game against Leigh Centurions that weekend and the fate of that match is currently unclear. The Combined Nations All Stars is a new name to reflect a concept born more than a century ago, when a team known as Other Nationalities faced England in April 1904.
4,000 tickets on sale for England s double header at Warrington ENGLAND S Men, Women and Wheelchair teams will each step up their preparations for the Rugby League World Cup 2021 in a groundbreaking triple bill this June. There will be an historic double-header featuring the Men’s and Women’s teams at Warrington’s Halliwell Jones Stadium on Friday June 25, with both matches to be shown live on Sky Sports – another exciting first for England Women, who will face Wales with a 6pm kick-off. Then at 8.15pm, Shaun Wane will finally take charge of an England team for the first time, almost 18 months after his appointment as Head Coach, when his players face the Combined Nations All Stars.
ENGLAND coach Shaun Wane will balance the need to step up his preparations for the World Cup with the demands of Super League clubs when it comes to selecting players for the mid-season international.
Wane’s first match in charge of England, almost 18 months since he was appointed to succeed Wayne Bennett, will be against a newly formed Combined Nations All Stars at Warrington on Friday June 25.
It will be part of a double-header at Mike Gregory Way, starting with a women’s international between England and Wales, a first home game for Craig Richards’ team since 2013.
England’s wheelchair team will also intensify their World Cup preparations with a match against Wales at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield on Saturday June 26.