DEC Patton will join five of his Warrington Wolves teammates on the three-week England Knights tour of Papua New Guinea.

The 23-year-old scrum-half or hooker is a late addition to the squad which flies out to the initial week-long training camp in Brisbane on Thursday.

He has answered a late call from Knights head coach Paul Anderson as he fills the place vacated by the withdrawal of Danny Richardson because of injury.

He will join clubmates Jack Hughes, who is tour captain, winger Tom Lineham, centre Toby King, prop Joe Philbin and back-rower Harvey Livett.

And with Wire skipper Chris Hill, full-back Stefan Ratchford and hooker Daryl Clark in the senior England squad for the Test series against New Zealand, plus Ben Murdoch-Masila featuring with Tonga against Australia this weekend, it means 10 of Steve Price's Super League charges will be on representative duty in the coming weeks - nine of whom were in the defeated Grand Final 17 at Old Trafford.

Prop Pat Moran, yet to make his Super League debut, is also in the Ireland train-on squad alongside departing Wire prop George King for European Championship matches against Scotland, Wales and France.

After a week of preparation at the state-of-the-art Brisbane Broncos training base, England Knights will then fly to Lae for the first match against PNG on Saturday, October 27.

They will then move to the capital, Port Moresby, where the teams will meet again at the 15,000-capacity Oil Search National Football Stadium on Saturday, November 3.