I think Fox was hugely unlucky to lose out to Calderwood last year but Briscoe is a real talent and I'm glad he has a chance to play against the best in the world

We have been saying for years we need to give youth a chance... let's hope Eastmond, Briscoe and Tomkins etc take the Aussies by surprise (and Burgess who has had more press but no game time agasint them)

Crabtree....we are in a bad way if he is in the team.

Not played for over a month, and pretty much useless when he does play.

Westwood deserves his place IMO, a solid worker who does the hard graft that we will need and doesn't back out of anythin, my main concern is our centres.

No,I hope the lad does well,but still think he's been fortunate tho

EXACTLY.

Have to agree, How the blooming heck is Briscoe in there before Fox?? I think Fox just needs to realise Smith doesn't like him and he will only get a game when a new coach comes in...

Before anyone says "But Briscoe's scoring record at the moment is immense" I agree however does he have the pace that Fox does?

I don't think so....

he deserves his place. END OF>

I think we may see Eastmond coming on for Roby

Whats eveyone on about..Shenton wont face Inglis anyway

yes he does thats where you are wrong, and someone else mentions Tom is defensively more capable than Fox. all this Smith doesnt like him is tosh

He doesn't shake like a sh*tting dog under the high ball like Fox does either...

it could be something to do with foxs' form at the end of the season being poor, briscoe is one for the future, smith has noticed that, everyone wanted fresh younger players in the squad, briscoe has played more games than tomkins yet everyone screamed to have him in the squad, whilst not disagreeing he shouldn't be, my only concern with tomkins is his attitude when things don't go his way on the pitch, he can show petulance on the pitch

Correct, Shenton against Hodges and Smith against Inglis.

Ah right so we're not allowed our own opinions on here then?

Woah Woah Woah, i'm not too sure about that, personally think catching a high ball is confidence thing, however, honestly do you really thing Briscoe is the best person for that postion at the moment?

if you're been honest with yourself you'd say no, and Fox deserves it imho.

But that is my opinion and you are entitled to yours too.

At the end of the day we all want England to win whoever is playing.

Tom Briscoe has done fine in the last 2 England games, but that was only against Wales and France. In my opinion, Fox deserves a place in the team because of how well he's played all year. A few poorer performances at the back end of the season haven't done him any favours, but he's played 28 games this year and been excellent in the vast majority of them.

The only reason Fox missed out on the World Cup is because Calderwood had a couple of good games in the 2008 playoffs. This year, Fox had a couple of poor games in the playoffs and has missed out on the 4 Nations. Harsh, in my opinion.

But he fluffed one against the French
But as I said previous,I actually hope the lad does ok.

thats why MY OPINION is that Tom Briscoe deserves his place, a forum is a place of opinion

nail on head.

Agree totally

no reason why he wont against the kangaroos, and as an earlier poster commented, its good to see youth getting a go, Tom is an exciting young prospect and its great to see him getting the chance to play against a team like Australia.

When you answered me,you said that "he deserves his place END OF"
To me that infers that there is no other view but yours!!
In my opinion I think he's been rather fortunate to get a place in the team

again, fox only played against wales and france, and failed to impress against wales so what's the difference between briscoe and fox, both played against the same nations, yet the france team fox played agianst was much weaker than the one at the keepmoat


regardless who got picked, they are going to be up against it for 80minutes

yes that was MY OPINION that he deserves his place, and i aint arguing with you about difference of opinions

No as we're all entitled to them.Anyway the team has been picked so lets all hope that we can give the Aussies a decent game,or you never know,even win.