19 Man Squad:

C Bridge (Warrington), T Briscoe (Hull), S Burgess (South Sydney), K Eastmond (St Helens), G Ellis (Wests Tigers), J Graham (St Helens), R Hall (Leeds), S O'Loughlin (Wigan), D McGuire (Leeds), A Morley (Warrington), J Peacock (Leeds), J Roby (St Helens), N Scruton (Bradford), M Shenton (Castleford), K Sinfield (Leeds), J Tomkins (Wigan), S Tomkins (Wigan), B Westwood (Warrington), G Widdop (Melbourne).

Link: [urlhttp://www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=rleague/10/06/01/RUGBYL_England.html[/url

I really hope they don't rush Eastmond back to play in this.

So at best it looks like we'll be without Eastmond, Graham, Roby, Wilkin, Soliola, Maurie, Gardner for the game against Hudds - don't see us getting much out of that one!

Interesting to see Gareth Widdop in there. Has he been turning out for Melbourne this season?

He played last week i think, and scored.

Widdop played for the Storm this weekend. Its a strong squad. However, it does leave us short for the Huddersfield game! Especially has they have no players in the England squad which is perhaps suprising. Although there is probably only Lunt I would pick and he is injured!
Possible Saints team v Huddersfield
Wellens
Lomax
Gidley
Flannery
Meli
Wheeler
Pryce
Hargreaves
Cunningham
Fozzard
Clough
Dixon
Puletua
Moore
Emmett
Ashurst
Frodsham

ok thats has nothing to do with england

1. widdop
2. hall
3. bridge
4. shenton
5. t briscoe
6. sinfield
7. s tomkins
8. graham
9. roby
10. peacock
11. ellis
12. westwood
13. s burgess

14. mcguire
15. scruton
16. morley
17. j tomkins

eastmond is injured

Pryce has obviously upset the wrong people.

he upset a lot of people during the WC in 2008.

I thought he wanted to be Australian and play SOO?

Scruton as the apparent 4th choice prop raises an eyebrow for me. Picking a 17 from that I'd be using Burgess as a prop and including Westwood, Tomkins, Ellis and O'Loughlin as your back row (actually, you could probably let Westwood and Burgess share the 4th prop responsibilities).

Gareth Widdop (Storm)
Ryan Hall (Leeds)
Michael Shenton (Castleford)
Chris Bridge (Warrington)
Tom Briscoe (Hull FC)
Kevin Sinfield (Leeds)
Sam Tomkins (Wigan)
James Graham (St Helens)
James Roby (St Helens)
Jamie Peacock (Leeds)
Sam Burgess (Souths)
Gareth Ellis (Wests)
Sean O’Loughlin (Wigan)

Joel Tomkins (Wigan)
Nick Scruton (Bradford)
Adrian Morley (Warrington)
Danny McGuire (Leeds)

Kyle Eastmond (St Helens)
Ben Westwood (Warrington)

IMO Of course.

Widdop
Hall
Shenton
Bridge
Briscoe
Tomkins
Eastmond (If Fit)
Graham
Roby
Peacock
Ellis
Tomkins
Burgess

Morley
Scruton
O'Loughlin
Sinfield

McGuire and Westwood to miss out. If Eastmond isn't fit, then McGuire in for him.

McBanana's use of Sinfield in this match and the future will be interesting to see.

We shouldn't have to have a Sinfield at 13 to help (or even boss) the halves, but in the past we've needed it as they generally haven't had enough smarts (with the exception of the couple of times sean long's turned up).

Will the gaffer thrust the weight of responsibility on the shoulders of young sensations Kyle and Sam, or will he go with the safer option of letting Sinfield guide us round the park.

IMO until we're capable of making the first option work, then we're never going to compete with the big boys at international level.

Ive been impressed with Andy Lynch this season suprised he hasn't got a shout

Very good player, think he's carrying a knock (or so they said on Sky the other week) so don't know if he's injured or not.

He's been struggling with a upper leg injury which has been heavily strapped.

Was quiet in the League game against leeds but fantastic in the cup defeat to Wire.

The Aussies and Kiwis backed up after the Anzac test, some within 24 hours I believe.

Is it not an option for our lads to play two games in two days?

I think the RFL have blocked them from backing up IIRC?

I know 2 years ago when again we played Huddersfield they backed up but I think the Rules have changed

Jamie Lyon backed up after the Anzac test and got man of the match for Manly, i know he's a freak, but it can be done and i see no reason why our players can't do it either. Unless the above poster is correct, and the RFL have banned it.

Bloody typical.

Anybody who doesn't think eastmond and tomkins should start as the halves want their head seeing to!