When was the last time we played a series with a recognised 6 and 7 playing together the whole time? If we can limit errors we should have a good chance. We've got the best props, Smith is good at kicking with ball in hand and organisation, Widdop and Tomkins should offer most of the creativity and we definitely have players who can finish.

Considering you said "shuffling into unfamiliar positions" then trying to include Matty Smith being left out of the 17 altogether as a reshuffling unfamiliar position is a push even for you in your ever decreasing trolling attempts???

So that'd be 2 reshuffling changes then.....better inform the Oxford Collins Dictionary that 'several' now means 'two'.

Idoitic you claimed.......yes, yes you are.

I think he'd be fine there. Defensively he's as sound as anybody in the squad (in the backs) both tackling and dealing with kicks. He's always had a finishers talent for scoring tries, his issue at centre and FB has been creating tries for others outside him. On the wing he wouldn't have that problem.

I'm not desperate at all for him to get a gig, i just think he is a much better all round player than Charnley and a better option with his kick returns and safety under the kick and we lose nothing in attack.

Hardaker is a steady centre but i would never play him there for England unless we had no other option.I agree Watkins has been very shaky at times, i stated that on the Watkins thread, and if he was to be dropped it would be justified.However, we have Shenton on the sidelines who didn't do a lot wrong and would be the man to take over were he to be left out.

You're so funny sometimes. "Serial Miscreant" Did your irony gland rupture during your defence of Catalans trying to sign Todd Carney? Or do you reserve all that bu$h!tt for Leeds players only?

Was that Hall or Hardaker in the background of that Hodgson student digs Video?