Props Louis Padian and Chris Fox, and number eight Matt Kvesic secured their places in the final squad after a trial match against the Warriors Academy.
Transformed in the early 1800s by the Prince Regent (later King George IV) from a south-coast fishing village into a fashionable spa, Brighton boasted a railway connection with London as early as 1841 a couple of years after Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot published their historical findings on how to fix images made by the effects of light.