Its amazing how frail most SL backs are. Hardaker looked and played like a junior yet to develop physically when he played for the Panthers.I know you can't just magic up athletes but surely SL can do better?

Zak went over at a pretty low point in his life to be fair.

Agreed, i think Newman is already on the right track and hopefully he will continue his progression this season he should get plenty of games.

It took Zak a very long time to put size on.

There could be a genetic component to the athleticism of young lads in the NRL compared to here, particularly regarding the south sea island heritage players.

I also don't know how rigorous drug testing is (in either hemisphere) with young lads. You do wonder seeing the size of some of them whether they've had some artificial help along the way. It's super-competitive to make the cut and you could see why some might cheat to get there.

Thing is if we can't out-muscle NZ, Tonga, Aus then we need to outplay them and we can't do that either.

Think we are clutching at straws talking about Broadbent/ Newman at international level. Let’s see if they make it as regular Super League players first!

I’ve always thought the Aussies look more “athletic” than we do. They seem to get players who look entirely at ease whilst running with the ball like a 100m sprinter would run at 3/4’s pace.
The only English player who has looked similar to me in recent times is Watkins. Maybe Senior before him.

Can't do with the commentators frothing over how 'good' GB are today. Not been disrespectful but we should beat PNG really.

It's the same old thing of when the pressure is off and the test series lost a team comes out and plays with more freedom. We need to figure out how to play well under pressure.

Has Martin gone off?

Can we just get Jonathan Davies to run out great sport. Speaks sense about what's happening on the pitch and off it. It can't be rocket science to promote a game as skillful and explosive as ours yet every year we struggle.

This is shocking. Hastings been dreadful and less said about Hastings on the wing the better.

Bennett needs to go and Sinfield should resign

It's a close call for stinking the joint out between GB on the pitch and the jibberish spouted by Brian Noble, boy oh boy, wowwee,

Changed my mind, GB truly woeful.