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Young winger joins Scotland league team

Winger Will Oakes will join the Scotland rugby league team for the World Cup to replace the injured Ryan Brierley.

Scotland have called 18-year-old England academy winger Will Oakes into their 24-man Rugby League World Cup squad.

Oakes, who was in the England team beaten 31-26 by France under-18s in Perpignan last Friday, flew out to Australia on Monday as a replacement for the injured Ryan Brierley.

Halifax-born Oakes, whose mother comes from Falkirk, made his Super League debut in 2016 and has featured strongly in the Robins' promotion-winning campaign this year.

Oakes, who was in Scotland coach Steve McCormack's initial 36-strong train-on squad, will travel to Ballina ahead of Friday's warm-up match against a NSW Country team.

There he will join his Hull KR team-mates Danny Addy, Ben Kavanagh and Kieran Moran, who were in the main party that flew out of Manchester on Sunday.

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Brierley was a late withdrawal after failing to fully recover in time from surgery to repair a damaged tendon in his middle finger.


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