England head coach Shaun Wane has passionately refuted claims from Kangaroos counterpart Kevin Walters that the RFL booked his squad the \u2018worst possible flights\u2019 over.<\/p>\n
Last week, during an appearance on the \u2018Inside Ball\u2019 podcast, Walters took aim, saying: \u201cThe RFL (Rugby Football League), in their kindness, have given us the worst flight possible to be flying to England if you\u2019re a sports team.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have hired, without giving away too much information, a sleep specialist, who specialises in overseas travel and sporting teams and making sure they get the best available preparation.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got to adjust quickly. Before we go it\u2019ll start. Little things like sleeping tablets and trying to adjust to arriving. We arrive in London at 8:15pm. We don\u2019t want them going to sleep at 8pm because they\u2019ll be awake at 4am.\u201d<\/p>\n
But, Wane has rubbished those claims, and insists Australian officials were the ones that selected those flights, with the fire between the two nations already burning.<\/p>\n
Shaun Wane hits back at Australia coach\u2019s flight jibe with 56-word response<\/p>\n
With his 24-man squad announced at midday, England boss Wane spoke to the media at their training base on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Hitting back at those claims from Walters with a smile on his face, he said: \u201cI know that they (Australia) booked the flights.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know that, so it just blows what he said out the water.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey booked their own flights, I\u2019ve been reliably told that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whoever booked the flights, the Kangaroos will be in business class as they make the journey to London later this week, landing at 8.15pm local time.<\/p>\n
The first of the three Tests comes at Wembley on October 25, with the second at Everton\u2019s Hill Dickinson Stadium on November 1 and the last one at Headingley on November 8.<\/p>\n
Wane added: \u201cAt the end of the day, they\u2019re in business, they\u2019ll lie down and sleep.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll be good when they get over here, but so will we.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England head coach Shaun Wane has passionately refuted claims from Kangaroos counterpart Kevin Walters that the RFL booked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-197945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}