England's 24-man World Cup squad:

Carl Ablett (Leeds), Tom Briscoe (Hull), George Burgess, Sam Burgess, Tom Burgess (all South Sydney), Rob Burrow (Leeds), Josh Charnley (Wigan), Rangi Chase (Castleford), Leroy Cudjoe (Huddersfield), Liam Farrell (Wigan), James Graham (Canterbury Bulldogs), Ryan Hall (Leeds), Zak Hardaker (Leeds), Chris Hill (Warrington), Gareth Hock (Widnes), Michael McIlorum (Wigan), Lee Mossop (Wigan), Sean O'Loughlin (Wigan), James Roby (St Helens), Kevin Sinfield (Leeds, capt), Sam Tomkins (Wigan), Kallum Watkins (Leeds), Ben Westwood (Warrington), Gareth Widdop (Melbourne).

McBanana

Doesn't Eorl need surgery? I know it was mentioned before the start of the 2013 season.

Personally I'd prefer him to have the off-season to recover for next year.

He was available for selection, the clown chose not to pick him.
From a Giants point of view I'm also glad he gets a break but from an England point of view it's a joke, along with Lunty. No doubt if he'd stayed at Leeds he would have become the 7th Leeds player in the squad.
The sooner mcbanana is sacked the better.

Anyone else going to be cheering for Sctoland and Wales in the World cup?

Yup

Scotland v USA at Salford, I'm heading down to cheer Broughy on for sure.

Eorl does need to have surgery again on his other arm, but what does lunt have to do to get in the squad isn't it better to go with 2 natural No.9s than 1 that was made into a No.9

Tom Burgess, Hock and Mossop are very poor selections.

Yup

was shocked when i heard crabtree has not been picked, been in the setup all year, top metre maker at the league leaders but not picked?! maybe he needs surgery and that explains it but abit odd really.

why is ferres going to south africa if he is not in the squad? ok he may get called up incase of injuries but again strange... ferres hasnt done enough to get in the england world cup team anyway recently.

cudjoe, well deserved



all this not supporting England stuff is stupid, you get behind your country, you may not agree with macnamara but we need the support and so do the players. Ok if it all goes horribly wrong...and we dont reach the final, then we can call for his sacking.

could line up like this=

tomkins

Hall
cudjoe
watkins
charnley

chase
sinfield
roby
graham
burgess (sam)
farrell
hock
westwood


bench-
hill
mossop
burrow
oloughlin

The squad couldn't be a better demonstration of McBanana's incompetency. Players with no form (Roby), players with fitness doubts (Widdop, O'Loughlin, Watkins - so surely this can't be why Eorl was dropped, as he's in better condition than any of those) and players with average form (Hardaker). Rubbish.
I'll still support them and still hope they can work a miracle but my World Cup Final tickets arrived last week and I very much doubt I'll be watching England.

lets do a quick comparison of 2013 form on Mr Mcnamara's behalf

tries assists tackles misses tklebusts carries mtrs aggain errors pens

ferres 16 13 724 43 54 396 2660 6.7 33 22

Hock 9 7 257 33 45 235 1547 6.6 23 23


crabtree 3 1 622 9 72 445 3244 7.3 15 10

mossop 2 0 432 37 16 249 1751 7 10 2


lunt 19 13 680 52 66 467 2416 5.2 19 14

Mclorum 2 3 653 65 22 343 1516 4.4 10 16



How Mcnamara can pick those three before the three Giants cannot be justified in anyway and shows Mcnamara up as a complete idiot.



Crabtree against Mossop is particualry staggering.

I can see why Eorl isn't in the squad. The burgesses, graham and hill will all be in before him. Mossop is there cause he's going to aus next year and that's the only reason - picking hardaker is an absolute joke look at what a hash he made at centre earlier! ablett! A useful player at Leeds but not international class at second row OR centre.- but then this is an area where we struggle as a nation. too many out of form or injury returning players for me. And why should we get behind them then wait for him to get the sack? The RFL choose to appoint a coach who has failed to deliver at all levels, makes ridiculous selections and still keep him in a job it's too late to sack him AFTER we've been made a laughing stock the world over.
Farrell's form has disappeared, hock and Westwood .... But no danny kirmond!!!
Been offered England Ireland tickets and I just really can't be bothered!

Hey, he doesn't care what we think anyways so I may as well question why he's taking the squad to SA...

Why are they going to SA? We're playing here FFS. If he wants them to stay as a group he can book a hotel here, sending them to a different climate and slightly different time zone is, well, pick a word...

....another excuse for a jolly....

I presume by SA you don't mean South Almondbury?

why are we all suprised when he cant even pick the current man of steel, hes not going to pick eorl above tom burgess is he, that to me is the most baffling pick, no problems with mossop or hill tbh, just hope he doesnt pick hock and mciilorum together or we are in trouble 2 penaly machines.

as for hock and chase, well some may not believe they should be in the team.. but what they do bring is the ability to change games and also win games on their own sometimes!

they are risks but if we dont take the risks then we are never going to beat NZ and Aus.

looking forward to the world cup and cheering the lads on...obviously disappointing no crabtree/brough though

Hock is a liabilty who should be nowhere near the squad.

Ablett though is in decent form and worth a place in the squad but should not be first choice. He is far better though than Wilkin or JJB who i feared would be picked.

Hardaker is a must pick as who else is going to cover for fullback if Tomkins gets injured.

No but i will be cheering Ireland

Exactly .

Well done for pointing out the obvious .

no, im English and will support England, however I hope all our players have good tournaments and that they come back unscathed!

I would go with a 17 of

Tomkins
charnley
cudjoe
Watkins
hall
widdop
chase
hill
roby
graham
s.burgess
westwood
sinfield

g.burgess
Farrell
o'loughlin
burrow

England have no chance of winning it, both Australia and New Zealand are miles ahead of us, at least they can't blame it on our players for not winning it.

McBanna has a few weeks left before he gets the boot.

In case O'Loughlin isn't fit.