Ellis great p[layer, but his nimble quick feet, and decent ball skills are long past, infact from his Wakefield day's he has gone down a completly different track to RL. Ellis is a big very strong back rower, and the likes of Hodges who IMHO is by far the best centre in the World would take him to the cleaners with pace and foot work. I think we should keep Ellis where he is best, and thats now in the pack.

I also cant think of one reason why anyone would want Sinfield in an International shirt, good at Leeds, pants against the Aussies, too soft in defence, and not enough carries, Sean "I will take your head off" O@Loughlin every time for me, tough, and will have a go.

Was lucky enough to be in Aus for the Storm v Broncos game and that night it was Inglis that took Hodges so if you think Hodges is good wait until the Roos unleash Inglis next month against us.

As for Sinfield I can't agree more,The guy is a coward when it comes to the hard work up front at Interntional level,At Leeds he takes the glory that the hard working front row do each week.He's consistantly 3rd man in and as stated never takes anough carries for a forward.Possibly why he never gets injured.
He's been found out EVERY time he's put on an International jersey over numerous years of chances.
Lockers also for me too i'm afraid and its just a shame Gareth Hocks not available as he's the sort of 'fruitcake'we need to give it back when they dish out.

I will bow to your recent live sighting of Inglis and Hodges. Hodges is a very quick footed player, and my comparison was against Ellis. I do know one thing, they are both superb.

The Sinfield saga is down to Sky, and the fact that Eddie, and Stevo pull themselves off at every chance they get if Sinfield blows his nose. I also cant start with Myler, FFS that lad is the single worst defender in SL, he makes Kevin Penny look like Nathan Hindmarsh, but yet again its a sky favorite.

so we beat the Aussies by putting 2 backrowers in the centres, and halfbacks on the wing and fullback - ok we really must be struggling if that is our team.

to be fair we really are!

Exactly how I feel!

How is it Chris Bridge can change from Ireland to England but Danny Brough apparently isn't elligible for England yet? Or have I missed something somewhere.

Myler as said before is untried at the highest level and nowhere big enough to be thrown in against the worlds best.At least Eastmond does have the sort of presence of the likes of Jason Robinson(elusive style of runner).

Only problem with DB not being picked/available (I remember an article said the RFL wouldn't give him clearance until 2010 and I don't think Bridge played for Ireland in the WC? I don't know how Harrison got dispensation to be in the train on squad though...) is our kicking game which almost demands that we slot Sinfield into the squad despite his obvious deficiencies at international level



I don't know how we'll go in the halves. In Tomkins we have a good player with an attitude and we need that cockiness to take it to the Aussies... McGuire seems like the obvious choice to go at 7, I just hope Sinfield can actually step up with a good kicking game an organisation ...

I still think we're screwed.