24 man squad if thats how much it is nowadays

1 Sam Tomkins
2 Hall
3 Watkins
4 Cudjoe
5 Charnley
6 Widdop
7 Smith
8 Graham
9 Roby
10 George burgess
11 Westwood
12 Farrell
13 O Loughlin
Subs
clark
ferres
hardaker
burrows
briscoe
lomax
amor
walmsley
hill
mcclorum
luke burgess

shenton? Makinson? Bateman?

Tomkins

Briscoe
Watkins
Cudjoe
Hall

Widdop
Smith

Graham
Roby
G. Burgess
Farrell
Westwood
O'Loughlin

Huby
Lunt
Walmsley
Ablett

How anyone is picking Michael McIlorum ahead of Shaun Lunt is beyond me...

Us Wigan fans will all come up with the same argument. Go and watch the first round of the 2013 play offs and you'll see McIlorum play Lunt off the park. Watch the rest of the play offs and you'll see him play Burrow, Monaghan and Higham off the park. Watch many games against Saints over the years and you'll see him outperform Roby and even Cunningham plenty of times. He's a big game player who loves to be written off.

I say all that but I wouldn't pick him. As good as he is Roby is better and Daryl Clark is potentially top class. They will share the role very well spelling each other whereas McIlorum plays his best rugby as an 80 minute man. That won't be an option for England so I'd rule him out.

If Mike Cooper continues his early season form he has to be in with a shout.

IMO Micky Mac's distribution and go forward needs a lot of work - he's a terrier in defence, but can be a liability and i'm not sure he's got the game to be a great hooker, certainly not in the Smith, Buderus class...

Hock is done as far as i'm concerned. He's had his chance and turned the squad into a farce. If i had been in charge, Graham and the other guys who went on the p!ss would be on very thin ground too. Yes he's a good player, but players need to respect the coach and more importantly the England/GB shirt. Fair play to Sam Burgess, he did that, which is part of the reason him and Graham don't get on (or so I've been led to believe)...