1. Smith
2. Fox
3. Gleeson
4. Senior
5. Hall
6. Sinfield
7. McGuire
8. Graham
9. Moore
10. Peacock
11. Burgess
12. Ellis
13. O'Loughlin

SUBS

14. Roby
15. Morley
16. Crabtree
17. Wetwood

I think it's just you that's backwards.

official team

England: Paul Sykes (Bradford) ; Peter Fox (Hull KR), Sean O'Loughlin (Wigan) , Michael Shenton (Castleford), Tom Briscoe (Hull FC); Sam Tomkins (Wigan), Richard Myler (Salford); Adrian Morley (Warrington, capt), Scott Moore (Huddersfield), Garreth Carvell (Warrington), Gareth Ellis (Wests Tigers), Ben Westwood (Warrington), Sam Burgess (Bradford).

Replacements: Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook (Harlequins), Mickey Higham (Warrington), Chris Bridge (Warrington), Danny Tickle (Hull

Is there anyone out there who still rates Paul Sykes??

Anyone........


Anyone at all?????

Smith clearly isn't watching the same game as the rest of us ...


Didn't pick Burrow in the squad, yet is happy to run with someone who's team's season ended 6 weeks ago and the player in question hasn't played a competative game since July.

Didn't pick the form centre in the competition, then ends up playing someone else out of position because we have that few decent centres in this country. Not to mention, the player he picked had a perm ...

Smith

fox
eastmond
shenton
hall

mcguire
tomkins

Graham
Moore
peacock
ellis
burgess
sinfield

Roby
O'loughlin
Morley
carvell

that's about the best I can come up with out of what we have due to TS' eye opening squad selection!

The 3/4 looks out of its depth to say the least.

I am officially in shock about how bad Sykes is, he makes the most fundemental mistakes which you wouldn't expect to see at Junior level.

But then again you look who the Assistant Coach is and then you realise the reason why he is in - has ever a man with such limited ability ever risen to such a height in any profession?

Step forward Steve McNamara - a man who really is a clueeless muppet of the highest order.

I sat in the newcastle(nsw) Ibis lobby chewing the fat with andy wilson and dave hadfield after seeing sykes put in what was one of the most shocking performances to lose a team a game I have seen at any level. he was genuinly up there with meli! as hadfield said he's just not international standard! Wilson and I both agreed!

Mcbannana and sykes should be nowhere near this team

and myler in front of burrow? at the moment he isn't even close however he has signed for warrington.......................

That is a wind up.

Not to mention that last night was his first competative game since July, after Salford dropped him when Myler said he was off ...

Jones-Bishop

Watkins
Smith
Senior
Hall

McGuire
Burrow

Peacock
Diskin
Bailey
Jones-Buchannan
Ablett
Sinfield

Kirke
Worrall
Pitts
Amor

For me it would be:

Smith
T. Briscoe, Eastmond, Bridge, Hall
Tomkins, McGuire
Graham, Moore, Peacock
Ellis, Burgess
Sinfield

Roby, O'Loughlin, Morley, Gilmour

Possibly swapping Eastmond and Smith around, to get the best out of his attack. Although you then get the risk of a less safe FB.

I can't fault him for either. Burrow has been off the ball. He needs to do more to merrit the international spot. Its time for england to move on from Keith and his non inclusion will only benefit us long term, even if that means not wasting another game trying who he picked.