Quote ="Rogues Gallery"if you want to see how far backwards we've gone, then have a look at the England v Wales teams that played in the 1996 Rugby League World cup.
I'll let you do the research, but the Welsh backline was something like this
Harris, Devereux, Bateman, Gibbs, Sullivan, Davies and Elliss.'"
1995 World Cup semi-final teams
England: Kris Radlinski; Jason Robinson, Nick Pinkney, Paul Newlove,
Martin Offiah; Tony Smith, Bobbie Goulding; Karl Harrison,
Lee Jackson, Andy Platt, Denis Betts (c), Phil Clarke,
Andrew Farrell; Dean Sampson, Mick Cassidy, Simon Haughton, --.
Not used: Barrie-Jon Mather.
Wales: Iestyn Harris; John Devereux, Allan Bateman, Scott Gibbs,
Anthony Sullivan; Jonathan Davies (c), Kevin Ellis; Kelvin Skerrett,
Martin Hall, David Young, Paul Moriarty, Scott Quinnell,
Richard Eyres; Mark Jones, Rowland Phillips, Keiron Cunningham,
--. Not used: Adrian Hadley.
Australia: Tim Brasher; Rod Wishart, Mark Coyne, Terry Hill,
Brett Dallas; Brad Fittler (c), Geoff Toovey; Dean Pay,
Andrew Johns, Mark Carroll, Steven Menzies, Gary Larson, Jim Dymock;
Robbie O'Davis, Jason Smith, Matthew Johns, Nik Kosef.
New Zealand: Matthew Ridge (c); Sean Hoppe, Kevin Iro,
Richard Blackmore, Richard Barnett; Tony Kemp, Stacey Jones;
John Lomax, Henry Paul, Jason Lowrie, Stephen Kearney,
Quentin Pongia, Mark Horo; Gene Ngamu, Tony Iro, Ruben Wiki,
Hitro Okesene.