Totally agree.

Eastmond and Sam are just such dangerous players, you never know what they are going to do next. They are thrilling to watch.

agree with those.

Myler will get picked for England no.7 simply because he will play for Warrington next year, it's Tony Smith we're talking about. As for his ability, he's not on the same level as Eastmond and Sam. Yes he is a good prospect but how many times this year has he gone missing in big games. Sam has played remarkably well behind a very inadequate pack at Wigan & Eastmond has improved significantly in a very injury-rupted Saints side under a new coach.

Jonathan Davies.

Kris Smith, the bloke who is boink'in Dannii Minogue. Hes pretty famous

For me if Offiah, the media and Tony Smith all want to big up Richie Myler more than Sam Tomkins - let them. I would sooner them put all the pressure on Richie Myler and leave Sam alone to rip teams apart every week.

How many big games have Salford had exactly. Only times I have seen him have been against us and he's played well in all three of those games IMO. Will just be interesting to see how if he can go from being a stand out player in a rubbish team to a stand out one in potentially a very good team.

Myler went missing in the challenge cup game against us at the jjb, tbh I didn't notice him that game, I rate him kind of... I think he's an average player in a poor team.

Myler went missing as soon as all the transfer talk started.
Personally hope the lad comes on leaps and bounds for England's and GB's sake.

whilst martin was a fantastic player for wigan, some of the things he says would suggest he sniffs the bostik on a frequent basis.

Right.

Is Tony Smith still the England manager? I thought Noble had to step down as he was also a club manager?

Yes and no.

Noble was released due to his club connections as they wanted a full time coach for the World Cup.

and then they didn't want to look foolish by having the same thing happen to them again and so conveniently changed the rules. If it's only for World Cups you have to have a full time coach then whats the point in employing TS now? Have the same guy working with them now as the same guy taking them to the world cup.

The RFL did want to have a full time coach for England but there are not enough matches at international level to really need one. Tony Smith got bored doing no coaching for long periods so took the job at Warrington. Noble was not willing to give up his club coaching job to be full time so left when his contract ended. Until there are more games per year at international level there is unlikely to be a coach willing to commit full time as they will be mainly twiddling their thumbs except for a few weeks in late October and early November each year.

Noble was "released" due to epic failure over a number of years.

Smith should also have been "released" for the same reason - although to be fair, he has won at least 1 competition during his time in the job.

Noble and very very few other GB/England coaches have had the luxury of playing a 2nd string NZ team in a 3 game series on home soil.

We won that under him and went pretty well but the mistakes he made in squad and team selection for the world cup were shocking.

Massive understatement.

The World Cup was a disgrace, and there is no way that Smith should still be in job. When he wanted to get back into club coaching, the RFL should have been delighted they had the opportunity to get rid of him.

And who would take over?

My personal fave was picking 4 props and 9 backrowers in a squad of 23



It's a route he seems to be going down with Wires squad for next year aswell. They look to have built a good squad but it's top heavy on backrowers and has few props in it. He looks willing to let his backrowers have a go at prop if needs be.

How many people did you hear in the pub exclaiming '[iFour props, only four bloody props![/i'?

Thr ironic thing was that we had a squad overloaded with backs and that was our weakest department.

Offiah cant speak one sentence he always says if they are not his players he goes that boy what a try he dosent have a clue sky please get rid. boots n all annoys me even more when paul cullen goes on for 15 minutes and he cant show the tries he has to show circles spinning around and arrows pointing to any direction.

At least Cullen is a League man through and through even if he does like the sound of his own voice abit much.

Offiah doesn't have the foggiest about the game and isn't involved in the game anymore(apart from trying to make money of a few young players).

I suppose he gets a slot on SSN because they don't have the foggiest either but they know Offiah from his stint on a dancing show or on Beat the Star with Vernon Kay!

He needs binning off.