After Thompson, Walmsley and Bateman Liam Watts should have been the next name in that pack.
Poor discipline in players has certainly not put other coaches off when selecting their squad.

Driving up to Jaffa-Town for this tonight and really looking forward to it. NZ $25.00 for 3 top grade games has to be the bargain of the century, so let's hope we get a good crowd.....the sense of apathy regarding the Union here makes me think that any sport other than Rugby Union will attract attention at the moment.
Samoa v Fiji is a tough game to call, but I'm going for a Samoan win. NZ should have too much for GB, but it's going to be tight, whilst the Aussies will win by as many as they want to.

While I agree Watts deserved a place, I don't agree that it was at the expense of Philbin.

Philbin has impressed me, he's very capable of bringing us the aggression and Impact from the bench. He battered and out shined the Saints forwards in that Challenge cup final, and was a key factor in Warrington winning that cup.

Watts has just married Joe Westerman's sister in Bali, so perhaps, that is the reason he wasn't in the squad

So glad BBC are showing the whole game on the red button at 9.30am, means I have a legitimate reason for not watching the Yawnion World Cup.

Indeed. Why would you want to a watch a thrilling game littered with world class rugby players when you could watch a load of unfit fat lads playing league?

Solid first half, hopefully the game opens up in the 2nd half. Our last tackle plays need to improve.

Dave Woods is beyond irritating to listen to.

Well that 1st half was worth getting up for

Enjoyed the arm-wrestle.
Game there to be won.

Pivots once again no idea.

what's the point in Hastings?

Kendall doing well with his calls

Only 3 yards forward that pass for the second try

Kendall has been about as bad as us these last two weeks. We look dreadful.

Why do we continually play it down the right? Neer going to score down that side.
Training ground stuff.

Good game to win.

No words for Widdops kicking game close to the line today

Two chances to win the game blown by McGillvary.

That took some bombing

Our attack is so much better with Clark on.

Jerry always has a mistake in him. He managed 70 minutes this week. Hardaker should have committed the defender but no-one at that level should fail to score.

Move the ball around and cause problems for the opposition

Maybe Bennett will let them do it before the 70th minute mark next week. He needs to take all of the blame for how we’ve played these last two weeks IMO. It’s been predictable and easy to defend against.

Forget Hodgson, Widdop, and Hastings. Tomkins fb ,then choose from Lomax, Williams, and Trueman in the halves.

Widdop and Hastings are fine if they’re allowed to play and move the ball around rather than being instructed to ensure we’re completing sets and hoofing the ball in the air.

The way our game plan has been these last two games, we may as well bring Jack Hughes and Josh Jones in to 6 and 7 and play for a 0-0.

A typical Mcquire coached team. Awful to watch. The ref should have clamped down on NZ spoiling tactics and Bennett should have prepared accordingly.

Well everything about that was horrific. The whole performance was summed up by Widdop putting a bomb up on the last, in his own half with 30 seconds left. I think Warrington may have made a very expensive mistake, his kicking game was dreadful throughout and that’s supposed to be his main asset. Hastings garbage as well, which I’ll put down to Bennett given that was the opposite of how he’s played this season.

Bennett’s bizarre player selections worked wonders as well. McGillvary, Hill and Hall have all done absolutely nothing to deserve being chosen, all 3 were useless and any other winger in Super League scores that at the end. Josh Hodgson is another who only gets picked because he plays in the NRL. He’s dreadful every time he plays for England and has continued that with the Lions, Clark is miles better. Whatever happens next week, get rid of Bennett and appoint someone who actually watches Super League and doesn’t treat it as a part time job for easy money.