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France u17s smash England

Match report

France made it a clean sweep in their two match series against England U17s as they ran out 12-56 winners for the second match of their tour at Rochdale Mayfield.

The visitors were straight out of the blocks with Elies Janzac scoring two early tries to put the visitors on the backfoot.

However, determined not to be whitewashed for the second time in a week, England dug deep and moved ahead as Ryan Templeton and Logan Metcalfe found their way to the line, with Templeton on target for both with the boot.

The lead was short lived as France hit back Titoua Binda, Tom Zitter and Luka Clottes all posting scores to put them into a 12-24 lead at the break.

The second half belonged to Les Bleus as Joris Martignoles and Lorik Lejeune keeping the scoreboard moving over, before Binda added his second and Janzac completed his hat trick just after the hour mark.

England rallied their defensive effort, but Zitter had the final word, crossing in the final seconds to post a final try, with 12-56 the final score.

England

Ethan Timlin Hammond, Jason Frankling, Rylan Templeton, Jake Hargreaves, Edward Mills, Jaiden Tallantine, Preston Melay, Danile Houghton, Dylan Morris, Charlie Roberts, Ben Clements, Logan Metcalfe.

Interchanges: Cameron Bradshaw, Dylan Hodgson, Byron Smith, Jake Taylor, Aaron Briggs.

England 12

Tries: Ryan Templeton (12), Logan Metcalfe (15)
Goals: Ryan Templeton 2/2

France

Clement Colin, Tom Zitter, Elies, Janzac, Gauthier Mouchon, Rafael Zapata, Nathan Gandou, Tom Guilhaumou, Lorik Lejeune, Kilian Belmaaziz, Teddy Cadenas, Sione Lamelangi, Luka Clottes, Joris Martignoles.

Interchanges. Titoua Binda, Naif Benabbon, Antoine Bonal, Nessy Buche, Keylan Ballester.

France 56

Tries: Elies Janzac (3, 8,64), Titoua Binda (22, 60), Tom Zitter, (34, 79), Luka Clottes (39), Joris Martignoles (43), Lorik Lejeune (55), Tom Guilhaumou (77),
Goals: Joris Martignoles 3/7, Clement Colin 2/4

Match info

Date : 16 Jul 2025
Kick-off : 18:30
Venue : Rochdale Mayfield
Competition : U17M Youth International
Referee : Erin Watson (England)

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France U17s v England Community Lions U17s Second Test

Another brave effort brought two second half tries for England Community Lions U17s before they were overpowered for the second time in four days by a strong France U17s in 30 degree heat in Nantes.

Early exchanges were ferocious with the likes of Matthew Creasey, Thomas Clarke and Matthew Eden following the lead of skipper Elijah Delaidriti before the French cut loose in the 6th minute with a try wide out on the left from Tom Zitter.

The Lions responded with some enthusiastic running from Jaylen Conway with Rio Walker also keen to impress on debut, and despite a promising break-out from France, when the water break came in the 20th minute it was still 0-4.

On resumption, Zitter set up another promising attack after collecting an angled low kick and the host’s second score followed after a 25th minute dummy-half surge from hooker Mahault Devilliers.

Mathis Dumont goaled.

A third try followed four minutes later on the back of a penalty concession with the ball worked right for Mickael Lallemand Rabasse to touch down.

Outstanding second row Steven Jocelyn added a fourth French try on the stroke of half-time with halfback Aymeric Papailhau slotting over the conversion for a 0-20 advantage at the break.

The Lions came out for the second period with renewed vigour, and it was captain Delaidriti who broke their duck with a rampaging carry that took him beyond three players and over the goal line in the 42nd minute.

Unfortunately his conversion went wide but it was 4-20 and the score gave the visitors plenty of enthusiasm.

This was further buoyed when centre Moulin Tetuira was sinbinned. Once again the Lions tried to go around their opponents but France launched a devastating counter when the ball was lost and fleet footed Toni Laporte scampered away from 30 metres.

Thomas Clarke was then shown a yellow card for the Lions before Conway ran strongly from the back.

Matthew Eden broke brilliantly through the middle and Delaidriti unlocked the defence with a grubbing kick left for Joseph Grifffiths to pounce at the corner to close the deficit to 8-24.

Into the final 20 minutes the visitors continued to battle hard and intelligent play won a drop out after 65 minutes. Despite some thunderous charges, France held firm and finally broke the defence with wide passing that brought the 68th minute score for Tetuira.

Injuries forced the Lions to activate their 18th man and Alfie Milton came on for the last ten minutes.

Eden was then sinbinned for slowing play down and France took full advantage with twelve points in the last four minutes to stretch their lead to 42-8 with Jocelyn’s second and Lorik LeJeune crossing the line and Papailhau kicking the final two goals.

England Community Lions U17s:

Tries: Delaidriti (42), Griffiths (55).
Goals: Delaidriti 0/2.

20 Jaylen Conway (Hensingham), 3 Ellis Clarke (Leigh Miners Rangers), 5 Ethan Gaffney (Blackbrook), 4 Rio Walker (Millom), 2 Joseph Griffiths (Salford City Roosters), 6 Harry Townsend (Salford City Roosters), 15 Lucas Tyrer (Leigh Miners Rangers), 8 Owen Tyler Cole (Gateshead Storm), 7 Nate Parker (Thatto Heath Crusaders), 18 Matthew Creasey (Wath Brow Hornets), 11 Thomas Clarke (Wath Brow Hornets), 13 Elijah Delaidriti (Gateshead Storm), 16 Matthew Eden (Newton Storm).

Subs: (All Used): 14 Danny Stables (Hensingham), 10 Cassius Turner Walsh (Wigan St Pats), 12 Seth Woodend (Barrow Island), 17 Connor Hall (Wigan St Judes).

18th Man (All Used): 1 Alfie Milton (Featherstone Lions), Injured and unavailable, 9 Lewis Johnson (Latchford), 19 Kier Starkie (Hensingham).

Sinbinned: T Clarke (53), Eden (74).

France U17s:

Tries: Zitter (6), Beauvilliers (25), Lallemand Rabasse (29), Jocelyn (39, 76), Laporte (47), Tetuira (68), LeJeune (79).
Goals: Dumont 1/3, Papailhau 4/5.

7 Mathis Dumont, 2 Tom Zitter, 21 Toni Laporte, 4 Moulin Tetuira, 1 Mickael Lallemand Rabasse, 6 Arthur Carret, 18 Aymeric Papailhau, 8 Paul Galy, 9 Mahault Deauvilliers, 10 Leo Ricard, 11 Steven Jocelyn, 15 Lorik LeJeune, 13 Tom Poncelot.

Subs (All Used): 14 Tom Guilhaumou, 20 Clement Troni, 16 Adrian De La Rose, 17 Yanis Ballet.

18th Man (Not Used): 3 Thibault Guittierez.

Tries: Zitter (6), Beauvilliers (25), Lallemand Rabasse (29), Jocelyn (39, 76), Laporte (47), Tetuira (68), LeJeune (79).

Goals: Dumont 1/3, Papailhau 4/5.

Sinbinned: Tetuira (46).

Half-time: 0-20

Full-time: 8-42

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France U17s v England Community Lions U17s First – Test Match Report

France Under 17s finished in dominant fashion eventually running seven tries past the England Community Lions U17s.

The Lions started slowly, conceding several penalties that put them under pressure, and were forced to move things about when Lewis Johnson received an early knock and had to be withdrawn.

After weathering an early storm, the touring team put together a couple of constructive sets themselves forcing a drop out while Danny Stables, Cassius Turner Walsh, and skipper Elijah Delaidriti all went close to points.

France then found themselves on the front foot and opened the scoring after eleven minutes when Steven Oscar Jocelyn burst through on an excellent line.

The hosts then went further clear

The hosts then went further clear with two tries in three minutes.

First Adrian De La Rose grounded despite the attention of three defenders before a smart runaround move inspired by Beauvilliers opened up some space and Lorik LeJeune, a recent star on the Provence Du Sud tour of the UK, supported to score.

Dumont goaled both and added a penalty on the stroke of half-time after skipper Delaidriti was sin-binned for the Lions.

This opened a 0-18 advantage that was stretched by a further two points when Dumont added a penalty after the Lions were penalised for overzealous kick pressure.

A couple of minutes after that, Seth Woodend was sin-binned along with Beauvilliers following what looked to be a tip tackle on the Lion and a short flashpoint.

The Lions defended manfully for the next five minutes until the return of their skipper before swift passing from an attacking scrum play resulted in Leny Stacul dotting down at the corner to move the score to 0-24.

Just after the hour, Nate Parker was adjudged to have said something out of turn and was shown the yellow card.

This left the Lions short again, and France took advantage working further space down the right for Stacul to add his second try.

Two more tries came against a tired defence in the last ten minutes as Thibault Guilhaumo drifted out of dummy-half to run 20 metres and then the outstanding Dumont fittingly grabbed the final points with a quicksilver try and his sixth goal to wrap up the 0-40 win.

The Lions will regroup over the weekend and prepare for the series’ final game on Monday evening.

Full Time France u17s 40 – 0 England Community Lions u17s

England Community Lions U17s:

1 Alfie Milton (Featherstone Lions), 2 Joseph Griffiths (Salford City Roosters), 3 Ellis Clarke (Leigh Miners Rangers), 12 Seth Woodend (Barrow Island), 20 Jaylen Conway (Hensingham), 6 Harry Townsend (Salford City Roosters), 7 Nate Parker (Thatto Heath Crusaders), 18 Matthew Creasey (Wath Brow Hornets), 9 Lewis Johnson (Latchford), 10 Cassius Turner Walsh (Wigan St Pats), 11 Thomas Clarke (Wath Brow Hornets), 13 Elijah Delaidriti (Gateshead Storm) (C), 15 Lucas Tyrer (Leigh Miners Rangers).

Subs: 14 Danny Stables (Hensingham), 8 Owen Tyler Cole (Gateshead Storm), 16 Matthew Eden (Newton Storm), 17 Connor Hall (Wigan St Judes).

18th Man: 4 Rio Walker (Millom).

France U17s:

Tries: Jocelyn (12), De La Rose (26), LeJeune (29), Stacul 2 (56, 68), Guilhaumou (76), Dumont (79).

Goals: Dumont 6/9.

1 Mickael Lallemand-Rabasse, 2 Tom Zitter, 3 Guttinez, 4 Tanui Tetura-Moulin, 5 Leny Stacul, 6 Arthur Carret, 7 Mathis Dumont, 8 Leo Ricard, 9 Mahault Beauvilliers, 10 Paul Galy, 11 Steven Oscar Jocelyn, 12 Llan Boualem, 13 Tom Poncelet.

Subs: 14 Thibault Guilhaumou, 15 Lorik Lejeune, 16 Adrian De La Rose, 17 Yanis Ballet.

18th Man: 18 Ayemeric Papailhau.

Half-time: 0-18

Full-time: 0-40

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England Lions u17s announce squad for France tour

England Community Lions have selected a 20-player Under-17 squad for two-game midseason tour to France and with 16 different community clubs represented, the net has again been cast wide following a comprehensive trial process.

“We’ve had a few trials.” Head Coach Martyn Oxbury confirmed.

“We started off in Yorkshire and we had around seventy players attend that trial, predominantly from Yorkshire but there were some players from down south, London, and Kent who made the journey.

A couple of weeks later we had a trial in Lancashire featuring players from there and Cumbria and any players we hadn’t seen from the south.

Again there were around another seventy players that attended that. From those 140, the coaching staff picked forty players for a final trial, and then from that we’ve picked our twenty-player squad.

I’ve been very impressed with the talent that we’ve seen.”

Gillingham’s Medway Dragons are proudly represented by Jake Parkes.

“It’s great that we’ve got players in these areas, away from the traditional heartlands that have been put forward.”

Martyn continued, “Jake is a really good athletic player, he plays as a winger, is fast, has a good step and he really performed well at the trials.

He’s earned his opportunity and competed against a number of other wingers and he’s got in on merit.”

Three players return to the squad this year having featured for the Lions last term, including Scott Egan of Hensingham, who has impressed in the NCL this term and scored two tries against Wales last season.

Seaton’s Ellis Nixon is another player to progress to first team and this squad alongside Daniel Frost of Wigan St Judes.

“Scott has made that transition into NCL and he’s performing well.” Oxbury said, “People that I’ve spoken to rate him very highly and I’ve seen the skill and talent he has at the trials.

Ellis Nixon is another player playing NCL for Seaton and Daniel Frost from Wigan St Judes. The fact we’ve got those representatives from last year is good.

They have stayed in that community game, they’ve gone back to their clubs and continued to play at a high level and therefore they have come back again to trial from scratch.

It’s not the same coach as last year, so they have had to stand out to a new coaching group and it’s a real credit to them that they have done that and got picked again.”

Overall Wigan St Judes provide three players, with West Hull, Skirlaugh, and Leigh Miners Rangers each seeing two included from their clubs.

Brighouse Rangers, Saddleworth Rangers, Salford Roosters, Thatto Heath Crusaders, Siddal, West Bowling, Milford, and Thornhill also provide one player.

The squad will fly to France on 20th July, returning on the 26th.

During this time away they will play France in a two-test series, games taking place on the 22nd and 25th.

The full squad is as follows:

Roman Shinks, Daniel Frost, Callum Palmer (Wigan St Judes), Jack Townend, Ethan Dooley (Skirlaugh), Frankie Fawcett, Waisale Ratuvou (West Hull), Ewan Smith, Harry Higham (Leigh Miners Rangers), Jake Parkes (Medway Dragons), Scott Egan (Hensingham), Ellis Nixon (Seaton Rangers), Luke Sinfield (Saddleworth Rangers), Myles Paul (Salford Roosters), Lewis Stewart (Thatto Heath Crusaders), Charlie Bahan (Siddal), Lewis Magson (West Bowling), Kieran Blan (Milford), Logan Senior (Brighouse Rangers), Bailey Lee (Thornhill Trojans).

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