Last season I seem to remember an argument about who is better out of hall and charnley. I think last night has just settled that. Not for one minute saying charnley is but I'm glad with have hall. Another great game. I can't wait to see the teams meet with full strength teams out.

I'd be surprised if he dropped Sinfield for Brough and Reed for Cudjoe. As already mentioned it's a nice problem for the coach to have. I just hope form dictates who he picks rather than injuries as is often the case

Bit unsure on Cudjoe tbh but that list has speed, skill, strength in abundance. Exciting.

Add to that a pack of:

Burgess
Roby
Graham
Ellis
Hock
Westwood

Then it looks pretty good

The problem I have with that is that Tomkins is unlikely to play 6 for Wigan at all this year and I'd prefer to have players picked who have spent the year playing the position selected. I know he can play that position but if he isn't doing it week-in week-out i'm not so keen on it. Lets not forget too that Lomax has impressed at FB for a few weeks......lets not get ahead of ourselves and assume he'll keep it up for the season.

I think World Cup will see few surprises, with the Charnley/Briscoe battle for the 2nd wing spot and the battle for the 7 shirt to be decided, and even that will probably be Chase.

Tomkins
Charnley/Briscoe
Watkins
Reed
Hall
Sinfield
Chase/Myler/McGuire

But like others have said about how poor we were in 2008 in the backs, that looks so much better and their is still the likes of Hardaker, Ratchford, Cudjoe, Atkins etc. to choose from too.

It would be an absolute disaster to put two players with so little experience of being international halves, as your international halves going in to a world cup .

If Tomkins doesn’t improve his catching from kicks, I can see him being moved out of the line of fire and moved forward into the halves to partner Sinfield, but dropping your captain, current golden boot winner, experienced starting half to accommodate two players with next no big game experience in the halves would be crazy.

I’d echo how good it is to see Tomkins and Hardaker as good young fullbacks, Lomax joining them now. A few years ago we would have killed for a fullback with the speed and creativity of any of them.

I haven't seen a huge amount of creativity from Hardaker - he's not a great passer of the ball, which detracts from his running game as well because defenders pretty much know he's unlikely to pass. Lomax (and obviously Tomkins) are the opposite - the mere fact that they are looking to set up other players makes them much more dangerous runners as well. Right now I'd put Hardaker in the squad largely on the fact he can cover 1-5 to a reasonable standard.

Jack Reed is looking painfully slow for the Bronocs. He's got good hands and positions himself well in defence, but for England he's likely to be far more exposed one-on-one than he is playing for the Broncos, which is a recipe for disaster. He may still be recovering from the leg injury he got at the end of last year, but on current form I'll be surprised if he's still in the centres by the end of the year - looks like a loose forward playing there ATM.

McNamara has clearly decided that Sinfield will be 6. That probably rules out Widdopp in the starting side, as he's no way a halfback. Chase can play there, but if Lomax is still tearing it up I'd be tempted to put him at fullback and Tomkins at 7.