The New Zealand and England teams will both wear one-off jerseys featuring poppies to mark Remembrance Day (November 8) for their Four Nations clash at Huddersfield's Galpharm Stadium tonight (early Sunday New Zealand time).

The Kiwi players were presented with their jerseys at their traditional Test dinner at their Leeds hotel last night.

After inviting Kevin Tamati, Sean Fitzpatrick and Robbie Paul to present the jerseys before the team's internationals against Tonga, Australia and France, the Kiwis used one of their own to do the honours this time - former Kiwi captain Quentin Pongia.

Pongia, now one of the Kiwis' trainers, captained his country four times in 1998 and played a total on 35 Tests from 1992 to 2000. Only eight players have appeared in more Tests for New Zealand.

Pongia is one of four long-serving ex-internationals on the New Zealand team's management team, the others being coach Stephen Kearney (45 Tests), assistant coach Tony Iro (25 Tests) and football manager Dean Bell (26 Tests). Like Pongia, Kearney and Bell also captained New Zealand.

Tonight's clash will have added significance for six of the Kiwis' line-up. Lance Hohaia, Sam Perrett, Thomas Leuluai, Fuifui Moimoi and Frank Pritchard were all in the side that lost 14-20 to Great Britain at the same ground in the first Test of the 2007 series. Lima was in the touring party but didn't play in that match.

Perrett was at fullback for his Test debut that night while Hohaia and Leuluai were in the halves but now have different roles (fullback and hooker). Moimoi started in the front row and Pritchard in the second row, as they will again tonight.