Cudjoe dealt with Moon better than anyone else we've faced this year. I knew he was decent ball-in-hand but the cup game also showed him to have what it takes defensively, unlike Atkins. Watkins should undoubtedly be one centre for England but, not knowing too much about Reed, would be happy with Cudjoe as the other one.

It's all a learning curve.

Zak's still a newbie FB and the defensive side, positions, decision making etc will take time.

One area which was evident in the Hudds game which he has shown improvement is the ability to make try saving one on one tackles - he felled Shirley with ease and got under the ball just before half time to keep us in the game.

The finished article of Zak is a hell of an exciting thought (meant in no way sexually. We all know where I get my kicks there)

I actually think the defensive side to Hardaker's game is better than his attacking play. He's a natural in broken play but the lines he picks and the his passing game when he comes into the line isn't anywhere near where it should be yet. His defense can improve but I think his positional play, and reading of the game in defense is very good considering he's not play that much at FB.

Regarding centres for England I think a lot of thought has to go into who'll be their wing partner. Reed and Hall look very good together in the last 4 nations and even though it was only against Wales I thought the Watkins/Charnley partnership showed promise........In the last 4 nations Yeamen got picked pretty much because Briscoe was on the wing.

You could equally say hall and cudjoe looked a good pairing in the internationals last year

It's good for England though for years we have had no good options at centre, at least now there are a few more options avalable