Having been a little shocked by some of those omitted from the England squad who would you guys pick as your best 17???

Briscoe
Hall
Senior
Smith
Fox
Mcguire
Burrow
Peacock
Moore
Graham
Ellis
Burgess
Sinfield

Morley
Carvell
Roby
Jjb.

The other 7 to make the 24 man squad would be......
Mcarthy-scarsbrook
Crabtree
Eastmond
S.Tompkins
Shenton
Gilmour
J.Tompkins
I'd have another 3 on standby aswell Myler,Mason,Owen.

1. Briscoe
2. Fox
3. Smith
4. Senior
5. Hall
6. Tomkins
7. Burrow
8. Morley
9. Moore
10. Graham
11. Ellis
12. Peacock
13. Sinfield

14. McGuire
15. Burgess
16. Lynch
17. Roby

18. JJB

I want to put it out there. If you don't like it then send it right back. How Smith at FB about pryce at 2 or 3?? Stop that wannabe stand off nonesensicaliciousnessly and just let him run with the ball?

If you played Smith at FB then i'd have someone else in at 2 or 3 pryce is gone as a player imo.

Leon's not shown what he can do for a while. I think thats largely dwon to skill set and what position he plays. fwiw I like Briscoe but think Smith would offer more at FB than him and more from FB than he can at 3.

I agree but who, I don't think Shenton is anywhere near as good enough yet. Thats why I would but Smith in the centres and have Briscoe at full back. I would have Smith at FB if we had another decent centre

1. Briscoe
2. Fox
3. Gleeson
4. Senior
5. Hall
6. McGuire
7. Tomkins
8. Peacock
9. Higham
10. Morley
11. Burgess
12. Ellis
13. Sinfield

14. Roby
15. Carvell
16. Graham
17. O'Loughlin

1. Briscoe
2. Fox
3. Smith
4. Senior
5. Hall
6. McGuire
7. Burrow
8. Graham
9. Diskin
10. Peacock
11. S. Burgess
12. Ellis
13. Sinfield

14. Roby
15. Morley
16. JJB
17. Crabtree

Briscoe
Smith
Bridge
Shenton
Hall
Tompkins
McGuire
Graham
Moore
Peacock
Ellis
Westwood
Burgess

Morley
Crabtree
Roby
Eastmond

[size=150YOU'VE NOT INCLUDED ANY CELTIC CRUSADERS PLAYERS, YOU PEENIS.
WHAT, THEY DON'T HAVE ANY DECENT ENGLISHMAN ?
BLESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/size

Are all posters from Hamilton backwards or is it just me?

Smith
Hall
Senior
Shenton
Fox

Tomkins
McGuire

Peacock
Moore
Graham
Ellis
Burgess
O'Loughlin

Sinfield
Morley
Crabtree
Eastmond

Just to throw my twopennorth in. Against these two touring squads i just don't think there's enough granite in the key positions. I'd like to see Higham's niggle around the ruck area. Or Senior being straight swapped for another defensively reliable player who has that needle that can get under Inglis skin. Has Yeaman nothing else to offer?

1. Smith
2. Fox
3. Gleeson
4. Senior
5. Hall
6. Sinfield
7. McGuire
8. Graham
9. Moore
10. Peacock
11. Burgess
12. Ellis
13. O'Loughlin

SUBS

14. Roby
15. Morley
16. Crabtree
17. Wetwood

I think it's just you that's backwards.

official team

England: Paul Sykes (Bradford)

; Peter Fox (Hull KR), Sean O'Loughlin (Wigan)

, Michael Shenton (Castleford), Tom Briscoe (Hull FC); Sam Tomkins (Wigan), Richard Myler (Salford); Adrian Morley (Warrington, capt), Scott Moore (Huddersfield), Garreth Carvell (Warrington), Gareth Ellis (Wests Tigers), Ben Westwood

(Warrington), Sam Burgess (Bradford).

Replacements: Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook (Harlequins), Mickey Higham (Warrington), Chris Bridge

(Warrington), Danny Tickle

(Hull

Is there anyone out there who still rates Paul Sykes??

Anyone........


Anyone at all?????

Smith clearly isn't watching the same game as the rest of us ...


Didn't pick Burrow in the squad, yet is happy to run with someone who's team's season ended 6 weeks ago and the player in question hasn't played a competative game since July.

Didn't pick the form centre in the competition, then ends up playing someone else out of position because we have that few decent centres in this country. Not to mention, the player he picked had a perm ...

Smith

fox
eastmond
shenton
hall

mcguire
tomkins

Graham
Moore
peacock
ellis
burgess
sinfield

Roby
O'loughlin
Morley
carvell

that's about the best I can come up with out of what we have due to TS' eye opening squad selection!

The 3/4 looks out of its depth to say the least.

I am officially in shock about how bad Sykes is, he makes the most fundemental mistakes which you wouldn't expect to see at Junior level.

But then again you look who the Assistant Coach is and then you realise the reason why he is in - has ever a man with such limited ability ever risen to such a height in any profession?

Step forward Steve McNamara - a man who really is a clueeless muppet of the highest order.

I sat in the newcastle(nsw) Ibis lobby chewing the fat with andy wilson and dave hadfield after seeing sykes put in what was one of the most shocking performances to lose a team a game I have seen at any level. he was genuinly up there with meli! as hadfield said he's just not international standard! Wilson and I both agreed!

Mcbannana and sykes should be nowhere near this team

and myler in front of burrow? at the moment he isn't even close however he has signed for warrington.......................

That is a wind up.