Rugby League Ashes return for the first time in 22 years

Yorkshire Evening Post

The Ashes are back for the first time in over two decades but what does it actually mean? Will Jackson, Pete Smith, Sam Cook and Sam Brocksom debate it on this week's Serious About Rugby League Show.

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00:00it it it's that's sort of a bit of a difficult question because there's a whole generation of

00:14of fans like you guys who've um who've basically grown up without this rivalry

00:22but um for us for us older heads it's um it's the big thing

00:27um it's england australia in any sport that's that's big isn't it you always want to get one

00:33over on the um on the aussies and particularly in rugby league because they've had the ascendancy

00:39for um excuse me for so long i mean do you guys know when the last time uh england stroke great

00:47britain won an ashes series 70s yeah 70s isn't it i think somewhere 1970 1970 and the last time

00:57they won a test series in this country was in the 50s so um you know it's been a it's been a long

01:05time coming um i think it's 13 successive excuse me successive ashes series the aussies have won

01:13um so if great britain sorry england could turn that around it would be uh absolutely massive

01:21for the game here i think certainly among rugby league people and it's it people like international

01:28sport don't they people that don't watch sport generally will watch international rivalry people

01:35people who aren't golf fans watch the rider cup for example and i'm sure there'll be a lot of people

01:40who aren't necessarily league fans who will be tuning into um to the test matches this weekend

01:46particularly the first test at wembley the most important thing for england is to put up a decent

01:51performance we don't want to see them get battered obviously we need to them to show that they can

01:59compete with the aussies whether they're going to win or not it's it's a big ask isn't it against a

02:04equality side like that but they need to um they need to show that they can compete

02:16thanks for joining us please like and share and we'll see you next week

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