Pretty much my thoughts. It's pointless clamouring for players to be included that don't exist...

Would rather have Lee Smith at fullback.

Apart from that im happy with the squad.

Good to see Bridge in there, vastly under-rated.

No i would just pick the bigger forwards from sl.

Either way wilkin is in the team now so he will have my support on saturday as he will be playing for my team.

Fox over Tom Briscoe eh?

I bet General Zod is jacking off into his box of kleenex in excitement as we speak

who are these big English 2nd rowers, who are not already in the team?

Five props in the starting pack plus Sinfield at hooker.

Four more props on the bench.

Then we can watch them all desperately chasing shadows as the likes of Luke, Leuluai, Fien and Marshall run around them.

Burgess and crabtree are mobile enough for the 2nd row, play them there with ellis and westwood, leaving graham, morley, peacock and carvell for the prop role.

so, the answer to my questions is "no-one".

Carvell is the only name you can suggest who isnt in the team for Saturday, and he is a prop.

personaly I'd rather have seen Bridge in the Ireland team!

However I'm made up that he's got a chance in the England team and think he will shock quite a few people with his performance.

Pyeman just cant stop digging that hole can he

I only advocated one change so only one differant name would be logical.

I quite like the look of the side TBH. ATEOTD he's made changes and is copping flack for it. He'd cop flack if he left it the same. He can't do right for doing wrong.

Let's just see how they go. Fingers crossed they at least do themselves justice.

And in this sentence lies one of the problems with our National team

Why? McGuire was rubbish last week not just because he plays for Leeds FFS, he was poor and deserves to be left out.

Well it's taken him 3 goes but he's finally got it [almost right.

I think he actually identified 2

McGuire was terrible and even if Smith was in the 15-a-side game, he'd still leave gaps.

I agree with all this. (saved me some typing time!)

With regards to Wilkin, it will be interesting to see how much game time he actually gets. From memory, whenever he has started on the bench for GB / England he's hardly been used in comparison to the other interchanges.

I'm glad he's gone for the two young lads at half back - how's the saying go? "If you're good enough, you're old enough".

We're about to find out if they're good enough. You can almost gurantee that they won't play with any fear about making mistakes. They will try and play the way they know.

Nothing to do with who was rubbish out of position yadda yadda. As a Hull fan I'm glad etc. Should that not have been as an ENGLAND supporter i'm glad because he was poor. How can the team be united with one sided club comments like that filtering down from the terraces? HTH

Ive seen some crap posted on rlfans before but Standee you have the prize today.

Are you serious pitching ANDY GREGORY and KARL HARRISON as potential England managers whilst at the same time saying that Tony Smith is not good enough?



I say give the gig to Leroy Rivett.

I was presuming he meant Mike. Andy would have been a giggle.

Standee wrote: He should, 3rd game, 3rd different half-back combination.

He's useless at club level unless he has superstars, why he ever got the national coaching job is beyond me.

What a stupid thing to say. The best coaches end up at the best sides who quite naturally have 'superstars'. Name me one SL coach who is 'good' who doesn't have any 'superstars'? John Kear might qualify, but he already coached England and didn't do very well at it.

I have been wondering what the plan is behind Wilkin's inclusion. I can only think that the idea is to bring him on for Roby and move Sinfield to hooker. But that leaves the obvious question of why not start with Sinfield at hooker and bring Roby on along with Crabtree and Burgess for added impact.