If not, which was?

The worst was in 1999.

Remember the mid season test in 2002?

They may have played badly but I doubt more than one of the current team would get in that one. Radlinski, Robinson, Connelly, Senior, Sullivan, etc look a tad better than this shower to me.

It's the worst super league has been so it would figure.

Yeah, good job with have so many players with NRL experience to compensate for that.

Apart from Robinson and Senior, those players were terrible for GB

Again, although not as good as 1999 team I’d still take the majority of that team over the players on the field now.

The fact that people are hoping Widdop and Lorax (to name but two) will provide us with the creativity to outwit an international defence is laughable. We should withdraw from international competition until we can field better players.

Roby
Makinson
S & G Burgess
Watkins
Hardaker
Hall
Percival all injured, I'm surprised the games were as close as they were.

Morley, Farrell, etc were on that team. Connelly was superb for GB. All those mentioned were far, far better players than their equivalents in this team and even on a bad day played better too.

Sam Burgess has retired! You’re scraping the barrel in looking for excuses. Worst team ever, very little question about it. You mention Hall - last week people said he should not be selected as he was overweight, unfit, out of form, etc. Now you suggest he would be a saviour. Accept it - the team is very weak in key positions. I hanker after the days we played Farrell and Shorpe at stand off - way better than the show we have in that position now.

The fact of the matter is that Great Britain was stricken with injuries to key players like Thomas Makinson, Mark Percival, Ryan Hall, and Oliver Gildart, and Samuel Tomkins was not selected, so this was far from the best team that Great Britain might have selected.

Wayne Bennett did well with the players he had available. His only blunder was in not selecting the Catalans star Samuel Tomkins.

No, but the coach is.

Rubbish.

Are you familiar with Steven MacNamara?

Those players probably would have been fine if we had a coach who was bothered. Also, it might have helped if Bennett had played Lomax in his actual position considering he’s had a better season than the other 6’s in this side.

He retired because he's injured, so hardly scraping the barrel.

And Liam Watts and only taking 2 genuine wingers on tour and his dour tactics and his poor use of Daz Clark and his loyalty in selection players who've been out of form all season. I could go on.

No it isn’t, unfortunately the coach is and his obsession with picking NRL players who are consistently crap at international level has resulted in a shambles of a tour. You know the coach is the problem when someone like Hastings goes from being man of steel in an average side to looking completely clueless. Injuries haven’t helped but what do you expect when you pick six half backs, for only two of them to play there, yet just two wingers and two centres. Bennett should go and take the likes of McGillvary, Hodgson and Widdop with him.

This is emotional, even hysterical, nonsense.

Wayne Bennett has won six (6) Grand Finals in Australia with two (2) different clubs. He is regarded as one of the greatest rugby league coaches of all time. That is why the RFL asked him to coach England and Great Britain.

Gareth Widdop was close to being the winner of the Dally M award in 2018. He was the captain of St. George-Illawarra Dragons, and highly regarded not only by his coach, Paul McGregor, but also by the NRL pundits.

Joshua Hodgson was the co-captain and lynchpin of the successful Canberra Raiders team. He was rated the number three hooker in the NRL (after Cameron Smith and Damien Cook) in 2019 by the NRL pundits.

All of that is irrelevant. What has Wayne Bennett’s previous successes as a coach got to do with his under performance as England and GB coach now? Anyway he last won a Grand Final in 2010, he isn’t a top coach any more.

As for Widdop, when has he ever played well on the International stage? Never is the answer, overrated, offers no creativity and after watching him during this tour, doesn’t offer a kicking game either. He’s also barely played this season and is only picked because he plays in the NRL. Similar applies to Hodgson, it’s incredible that he’s managed to be such a success in the NRL because he’s dire every tine he plays for England and now GB. Both should never play for England again.

Nobody has come up with convincing evidence that this is not the worst GB team ever. I think it is or is very close to being. No coach can work miracles. He’s at least made the defence reasonable. With a couple of potential retirements before RLWC 2021 things look bleak for that tournament.

But he HAS retired, sadly.

And we pick a second row to play centre and a HB on the wing, while drafting in a new winger for next week.
Watkins in an interesting inclusion on your list

and Hardaker should not have been playing centre, he should have played at FB instead of Coote.
Also, Roby, as good as he's been isn't required, we just have to play Clarke for much longer, maybe the full 80 - Hodgson for some reason just doesn't perform at International level.
It may just be me but, the squad seems unsettled and half of them look like they'd rather be somewhere else.

The early 80's were pretty woefull