The NRL All Stars have today recruited South Sydney’s English Test Star Sam Burgess for next Saturday’s (February 13) historic Harvey Norman Rugby League All Stars match at Skilled Park.<br><br>The NRL All Stars dropped the selection shock after losing another English Test forward Gareth Ellis, Rabbitohs giant David Taylor and Canberra’s Alan Tongue.<br><br>Burgess, the most talked about English recruit to enter the NRL, will join the squad after playing his first Australian game for the Rabbitohs at Redfern Oval this Sunday.<br><br>Burgess had not been eligible for the original voting process because there was doubt about when he would be arriving in Australia.<br><br>Showing the strength of the All Stars line-up, two more Australian Test players, Wests Tigers Robbie Farah and Canberra’s David Shillington, have also been called into the squad to play the Indigenous All Stars next Saturday.
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