Players Earning International Caps While At St Helens
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Much of St Helens' home—grown talent, even at young ages of 20 in the case of players like Kyle Eastmond, go on to earn international caps with England, and previously Great Britain. Players like Tommy Martyn and Keiron Cunningham have earned call ups for other British nations Ireland and Wales respectively. Indeed, many St Helens past players, even some considered legends, including Kel Coslett and John Mantle earned caps for Wales. The likes of Vila Matautia, Apollo Perelini and Francis Meli have won caps for Pacific Islands nations like Samoa. As the Southern Hemisphere teams; more strictly Australia, tend to only select players from their competition, only one of the stars that St Helens have managed to attract have represented these countries whilst at St Helens; when Darren Smith was selected for Australia's 2003 Ashes 3rd test squad. Jamie Lyon was initially selected to play for Australia in the 2005 ANZAC Test, but was eventually dropped. Sean Hoppe played for New Zealand in their 2002 tour, then against them for St Helens in the same tour in his last match for the club.
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