I don't think Senior should be in the running mate tbh he has had a decent enough last couple of months ball in hand and was superb at Warrington and in the CC Semi to name a couple of games but defensively like our team he's been below past standards by some distance.

But they have come out of retirement before... but lets hope so! He is still a great club player and he was outstanding in his day but now he is past international level and speed is the issue!

Although he turned and caught McGuire at KR earlier this year, but he seems a shoe-in

He is well & truly in 4th place and it was a close call between him and King for 4th TBH... maybe a bit of bias on my part, so lets say Senior in 5th then!

No problem with Sinfield not getting in, He's not been great this year.

Selective memory!



You know he is not a potent enough force in respect of returning the ball and turning defence into attack, although his support play and tackling, if he is close enough, is still up to international level. Tomkins at FB, McGuire at 6 and Eastmond 7 would be my choice for England. Widdop in squad as he can cover both FB and half-back. Myler should stay at home and Dobson should get his squad place.

Don't worry, I wouldn't have Wellens anywhere near my England team.

Tomkins is a must for full back (Kyle/McGuire halves), or Widdop if Eastmond is unfit (Tomkins/McGuire halves).

Can't really take much notice of these things anymore, especially as I don't see anything really of most of the players - the odd game when they play Leeds, that's about it.
Looks like a reasonable selection based on relative club success this year.

Same as all fans who will never get to see every player play every game, even the highlights are try's only but it wont stop X fans declaring that our player has been better than your player all year.

Where's TMFMISL?????? Surely an oversight???

Mods.....Can we rename this thread 'Super League Dream Team - No TMFMISL!!!'

Agreed.

Senior's selection, in what for him has, overall, been a relatively poor year, still shows that he's the best british centre in SL which is a sad indictment for our game.

McGuire desrved a place but that is the only non Leeds selection I could raise an argument for.

FTV, has Graham been up there this year? Seems to have been a down year compared to previous from what I have seen though, to be fair, I may be letting the way we did him in the semi cloud my judgment.

Forwards are about right but the backs look poor IMO. Off the top of my head I think this team would have been much better:

S Tomkins
P Richards
M King
C Bridge
R Atkins
R Chase
D McGuire
J Graham
J Roby
A Morley
B Westwood
J Tomkins

Ben Harrison.

Last year I agreed with the team in total. This year I am shocked. Would never have had Senior, Hall, Dobson, Roby, or O'Loughlin in there.

But do neither do all the press who voted!!! So to be fair, not sure what your point is unless you do not have Sky and or don't watch many Sky games. I see the majority of our games and the majority of Sky games...

Got to say Gotcha i think Roby has been very good when i've seen him this year and think his inclusion is deserved.

No Buderus?!?!? Shock horror.

A 13 man team might be even more effective. Just ask the Hull fans

As you rightly point out, he was very poor indeed defensively in the semi final.

He has, however, made c.1000 metres more than the next highest metre making prop this season which is remarkable really.

Bearing in mind the long term injury to Maurie and the long periods other pack men have spent injured (Soliola, Wilkin etc) or out of position in the backs (Flannery, Moore, Wilkin) he's been pretty miraculous in his performances again to be honest.

The bloke is a machine. I can't wait to see his performances next season with some decent prop support for once in Perry and LMS.

haha, SOL was my 13 - no idea why I missed him out.

Not saying he has been anything but good, but Monaghan has been far better.

Maybe not so much on here because this is the Leeds board but give the dream team thread on the VT a bit of time to get to 10 pages and see all the bitching about it being "Incorrect".

I've got nothing against "the dream team" and have no problem debating it but I just think some people take it far too seriously.

Bit of a myth I reckon, check out his stats v SOL and he'll get humped for workrate, line breaking and creativity I would imagine.

To be fair, I get the impression from following the likes of Chris Irvine on Twitter that if they rules would allow them to pick a team and then have some sort of system to convert that into a Dream Team they would prefer that. The only choice they have is to pick Tomkins at stand-off because of the rules on voting, even though he has played his best rugby from FB, which means that Wellens ends up been at FB by being second choice to Tomkins and McGuire also got left out as a second choice to Tomkins!!!

He's been a great player, but never MOS this year.

Fully agree with the suggestions above with the exception of Senior though - I don't think he's been of the same calibre as Morley for instance in 2010.

I would have had Westwood down as MOS anyway personally, but failing that I think Graham deserves the accolade this year more than when he last won it. He's held that Saints pack on his own this year for the most part, and excelled whilst doing it.