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Rabbitohs will not allow forward to leave for mid-season international

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Sydney to block Burgess trip

Burgess: No England link-up

It’s not an international, it’s an invented game, a trumped-up game

Shane Richardson
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South Sydney have told England coach Steve McNamara they will block any attempts to play Sam Burgess in a potential mid-season international.

Burgess was granted permission to play against France by the Australian side in a corresponding fixture last year.

But Rabbitohs chief executive Shane Richardson insists no release will be accepted for the former Bradford forward this time around.

“He won’t be going,” Richardson told the Australian Rugby League Week magazine.

“It’s not an international, it’s an invented game, a trumped-up game.

Detrimental

“The trip home last year had a detrimental effect on Sam which he acknowledged. We agreed he would not go this year and he was part of that decision.”

Although details of England’s fixture have yet to be released, McNamara’s men are expected to play a team of Super League-based Australians and New Zealanders called the Exiles on the weekend of June 10-12.

A Rugby Football League spokesman said no comment could be made until details of the match have been finalised.

England also flew Gareth Ellis (Wests Tigers) and Gareth Widdop (Melbourne) back for last year’s game.

Wests Tigers and Melbourne officials told Rugby League Week they knew nothing about the game, which is expected to be announced next week.

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