oh.....feck me. They watch these boards but still pay no attention to the issues that may prove negative

ha ha you've got to laugh at the incompetence of the RFL media dept. No wonder the sport has the national profile it does!

Good to see Fox get a shot, he always looks dangerous when taking a scoot from dummy half and will get in there and do some hard work to give the forwards a breather.

They may aswell just release it again.

Proof of how inept they really are.

what possible difference can it make now, everyone on that list knows, along with their clubs and half their fans, why bother deleting it and make yourself look completely incompetent

Maybe they don't? This is the RFL we're talking about!

RFL not exactly covering itself in glory at the moment (in maybe).

You can just imagine the phone call/txt (purely for example) "Well done on getting picked for England Sam."
"What are you on about"

It was in the public domain, they put it there.

Muppets.

as long as they dont kick to him

...
"I'm Tongan!"

Sam Moa...

What difference does that make these days

*Code 13 mode*

As usual, the squad is picked depending on what club you play for. The same old faces are there. BLAH BLAH BLAH!

*Code 13 mode*

Dam right too

Top 4 side and we have 1 in there

I aint counting Moore as he's technically as saints player

Not sure about selecting Crabtree, O'loughlin or Morley. I don't see that Crabtree has improved enough from his playing in the Euro-Pacific to get him a starting place, O'Loughlin isn't as much over-rated as hopefull-not-the-best-LF-for-England and Morley is an established player, why tire him out in an international that would be better served giving a younger kid a pop.

If you look theres no more than 3 players from 1 club in there.

It's obvious that Smith has tried to spread the burden around the various clubs so as to try and avert any complaints from coaches and minimise 'cry offs'.

Every English SL club is represented, all except one notable exception !

Ryan Hall in squad, see timesonline.typepad.com/rugby_league/

Ryan Hall in squad, see timesonline.typepad.com/rugby_league/

Players spread between 11 of the 14 SL clubs. So the one English club not represented is Hull FC then! Typical!

The great RFL cock up!! timesonline.typepad.com/rugby_league/

The great RFL cock up!! timesonline.typepad.com/rugby_league/

Lockers has been Wigan's best player by a country mile this year, it would have been a bad decsion for him not to be there. Even some Wigan fans who have often been very critical of Locky in the past have been unable to critisize his performances this year.

Which kind of explains your terrible performances and the fact that you are languishing outside the playoffs having played more games than your rivals.

The England squad is a step in the right direction, but arguably there has been too much work done to accomodate players from the lesser sides. The English players in Saints and Leeds' starting sides are generally still far better players than the others they have chosen from other clubs, although I can understand it if they are 'ones for the future' like Myler.

The glaring ommission seems to be Leon Pryce. Is Smith suggesting both McGuire and Tompkins are better choices? If so, what does he base this on? I'm sure the answer would be previous failure at international level, but then Peacock wouldn't be able to be picked after his showing in the World Cup or his previous record. Anyway...

O'Loughlin has been very good everytime he's pulled on a GB shirt and his game is idealy suited to international level.

He's earned his place both on form this season and his form for his country in the past.

As for Pryce he has form this year but his recent past for the national side was very poor although he's still our best option at 6 imo.

To be fair to McGuire also he's never let the national side down and has overall produced more in an England/GB shirt then Pryce has done.

When?

He was as poor as Pryce in the last debacle, wasn't as effective against NZ the previous year, and was far worse the year before.

I thought he was our best halfback by far in the world cup(which granted isn't saying much) and had a good debut season for GB in 2004 but over then that he hasn't had that many chances.

Pryce has only really had the NZ(2nd team really) series at home and then the world cup and was pretty good in one and awful in the other.

Neither has exactly covered themselves in glory at 6 for GB/England but i would say McGuire has produced slightly more.

Lets be honest though both must do much much better.