'England are earning the quick ruck'published at 15:35 Greenwich Mean Time
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Paul Rowley Salford Red Devils head coach on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
It's just so different to what Samoa are used to in the NRL. You see a lot of three- or four-man tackles in the Super League. The ruck control is a lot slower. The NRL grounds are harder, faster. There are a lot of two-man tackles in the NRL, so this is very alien to them. So as they try to adjust to the rules and get three in, it's rescuing a situation rather than being proactive and hitting together.
England have been too good. They've been too quick. England are earning the quick ruck rather than Samoa's inability to deal with it.
'Representing your country, there's no bigger honour'published at 15:33 Greenwich Mean Time
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HT: England 16-6 Samoa
Last night, England's players had a visit from former two-time world featherweight champion, Josh Warrington.
Warrington addressed the players and presented their matchday shirts. Speaking to England Rugby League's X account, Warrington said: "Representing your country, there's no bigger honour."
The Leeds fighter who supports his local side, Leeds Rhinos, added: "A powerful mindset beats anybody in the world."
Samoa's songs of praisepublished at 15:31 Greenwich Mean Time
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HT: England 16-6 Samoa
Steve Sutcliffe BBC Sport at the Brick Community Stadium, Wigan
Samoa have been based in York since arriving in the UK at the back end of last week and have been making quite an impression with their trip to York Minster getting a fair bit of traction on social media., external
They certainly delivered a choir service, external with a difference, although Shaun Wane and his England team will hope his opponents don't hit all the right notes this afternoon.
"Faith is a very part of what we do and our camp so knowing we were going to York I knew the Minster was pretty amazing," said Samoa head coach Ben Gardiner.
"Experiencing a church service there on Sunday morning to start our tour was a pretty important thing to do. They have a great choir so we could see that and as part of our culture we often sing our hymns so we were able to go into the main part of the church and we asked if we could sing and the priest allowed it which was pretty cool.
"It went quite viral on the internet which we didn’t expect but it is good to put our players out there to the world and something we want to achieve is being strong and committed to our faith as well as our football.”
Dropping in at the Minsterpublished at 15:30 Greenwich Mean Time
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HT: England 16-6 Samoa
Samoa's players have been enjoying their stay in England. They've based themselves in York - and why wouldn't you? - and last Sunday dropped in at the Minster to take part in some choral singing.
There's no record of whether they've tried Betty's Tea Rooms, although it would have been a heck of a queue if they'd all turned up together.
'We are in the game'published at 15:27 Greenwich Mean Time
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HT: England 16-6 Samoa
Samoan captain Jarome Luai, speaking to BBC Two: "They had a lot of ball.
"We are in the game and that's the most important thing for us. If we can get a fair share of possession we can come back into the game. We are tying to find our own rhythm."
England thump France in wheelchair internationalpublished at 15:23 Greenwich Mean Time
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FT: England 66-33 France
There has already been one international success for England this weekend.
Their wheelchair rugby league team scored 11 converted tries to earn a crushing 66-33 win against France in Wigan.
Rob Hawkins scored four first-half tries and was named player of the match, while Mason Billington grabbed two late tries on his debut.
Nathan Collins made all of his conversion attempts and was hugely influential with ball in hand as the world champions outplayed France to retain the Fassolette-Kielty Trophy.
The visitors scored six tries and a drop-goal but lacked the fluency to put England under sustained pressure.
Steve Sutcliffe BBC Sport at the Brick Community Stadium, Wigan
The scoreboard looked to be turning ugly for Samoa early on with Ben Gardiner's side struggling to get anything going. But could that Samoa try be a huge turning point in this contest?
'Mariner picked that off well'published at 15:14 Greenwich Mean Time
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Paul Rowley Salford Red Devils head coach on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
Deine Mariner's picked that off really well. But it's totally against the run of play. A timely reminder for England that they need to stay disciplined. If Samoa score next, it gets interesting.
CONVERTED TRY - England 16-6 Samoapublished at 15:11 Greenwich Mean Time
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Deine Mariner (34 mins)
Interception!
Sloppiness from an England side so comfortable for 34 mins. Daryl Clark throws a silly loose pass out to the left, which Deine Mariner nips in to collect and streak half the pitch for the line.
Junior Pauga converts to reduce the deficit down to 10 points.