That big wide pitch at Wembley should give both Tomkins and Burrow a lot of space to make hay with

I love watching Burrow take on a line, I hate it when he takes a head shot for his invention.

The mark of a good attacking player for me is how they make you feel as an opposition fan. They get the ball and the 'Get hold of HIM!' shouts start and your foot starts going like it's jabbing for the brake pedal when the wife's driving. Burrow is one of those players and if he's used in a couple of late-half spells he's very effective. I can appreciate the calls for McIlorum too from having seen how the bloke leads from the front in crunch games but as a coach it must be hard to resist the temptation to include an unorthodox strike player like Burrow on your bench, I think I probably would given that it's a no brainer to start Roby anyway.

Apparently McIlorum is injured and has gone for treatment on his back according to McNamara, yet McIlorum has been on twitter supposedly and said he's been dropped.

Have you a link WFIII?

Is there any truth in the rumour that Chase "has gone home"?

Thats what came through on my phone today!!!!!

Where is home out of curiosity?

Hopefully New Zealand

Hope is in the UK.

Also you have to be careful not all Twitter accounts are real. As us Saints fans know from the fake Royce Simmons Account.

Although it was very amusing at the time. More amusing than some of the entertainment on the pitch.

Well I've heard he's 'gone home' to see his wife who is due to give birth at any moment.

So he hasn’t been dropped and he has gone home for personal reasons.

Let’s kill all the conspiracy theorists hey

on skysports it said he wasn't selected for this weeks game and he asked could he go home to be with his wife as their expecting this week, fair enough in my opinion.

Any early claims on the infants nationality?

Yep, fair enough. Some things in life are more important than rugby. Not many, but some.

Tongan, New Zealand or Australian apparently.

Perhaps that gives Rangi's kid four options for future World Cups: New Zealand (dad's birthplace), Tongan (mum's mum's birthplace), Australia (kid's adopted/migrated homeland) and English (kid's birthplace).

But if the kid is allowed to grow up in Australia he will qualify for State of Origin!

The kid is to be named Stanley, thus he will known as Stanley Chase. That way no one will ever confuse him with St George-Illawarra's utility back Chase Stanley.

I'd call him Willougby.

What about Chatswood? Doesn't Chatswood Chase have a certain aristocratic ring about it?

Team has been named:

Tomkins
Charnley
Watkins
Cudjoe
Hall
Widdop
Sinfield
Graham
Roby
S Burgess
Ferres
Westwood
O'Loughlin

Burrow
Hill
G Burgess
Ablett

Can't argue with that team at all

I'd have picked Briscoe over Charnley but other than that I like that side.

I'm going on record now to say I think it will be a fairly routine England win. We have to play our best game of the comp but I'm not buying into the New Zealand hype yet tbh. England can, should and I think will, win this. England 28 NZ 16

well pritchard is 50/50, SBW still has a soar neck and manu vatuvei is out injured so has New zealand released its 17 yet?

No Pritchard or Vatuvei. SBW starts.

i feel a little bit more comfortable now with rob burrow defending out wide because pritchard is a handful for any player never mind a small one.

UK citizenship for the child is assured if the parents are deemed 'settled' in this country..

i hope a lot of people are still in the bar or entering the ground as there looks no more than 30k people there.

65000 tickets sold so I wouldn't worry.