Quote ="Deus Dat Incrementum"It's sad to see such a great player have to bow out early. The lions / England have to look hard to find a leader on the pitch for the next World Cup. SOL is done in terms of international rugby and James Graham will probably not make the next World Cup. None of the team currently down under command the sort of respect that Burgess, SOL, Graham did.
For a number of years we have had a pack good enough to mix it with the big boys and all of a sudden it looks a bit lacking firepower. Thompson could do with a year in the NRL before the World Cup.'"
Can't disagree with a word of this, bar the Thompson bit. He'll need a good few years at the top of the NRL, before the World Cup in SIX years (and Thompson IS good).
Our (GB) current pack is barely better than SL level
Hill and Graham's best days are behind them
I've never got the Hodgson hype
Thompson and Walmsley are good. Likewise Whitehead and Bateman. But not GREAT.
No enforcer. No one to put the fear of God, into an opposition. Just International standard players.
