How stupid.

The problems with your spreadsheet were nothing to do with McGuire. It was all Lee Smiths' fault.

last night, whilst having a tender moment with my mistress, I suffered erectile dysfunction. When she asked what the problem was I laid the blame squarely on Danny McGuire's poor defensive positioning.

your living in a fantasy alnd if you think the GB captain will be dropped, or that Carvell is going to be any better, no matter how 'shot' you think he is

I don't think he is suggesting that is what will happen, just that is what he would do.

I was actually proud of the England performance. There's no time in my memory that we have turned around a game like that against the Aussies. We've beaten them and played well against them before, but I've never seen them go behind like that and then actually dominate a half. 10 minutes, maybe 20 on top, but not the full half, and certainly not nilling the opposition (especially a team touted as one of the best ever Aussie sides). A bit of luck like the Aussies had in the first half and we could have had that game.

But fleeting glances at the VT and some of the offerings from visitors here would make you think it was a total humiliation for England. Not so. No need for wholesale changes to the team.
Sean Briscoe actually showed up well in the second half - suprising what you can do when you don't have to run the ball back from the bottom corner of the pitch continuously. I'd either move Smith to the wing or give Fox a try - he has more game time than Tom Briscoe this year and looks to have more pace which might be needed in defence.
Other than that I'd leave alone the team, just change JP's defensive role back to prop and have Burgess start defending on the right (or maybe even move Ellis out there).
I'd keep McGuire. He can't play that badly again, and he's still the best 6 in the SL and I don't think he goes well off the bench - he needs the full 80. Eastmond off the bench again.

Tony Smith has to show he can get two good halves of rugby out of England rather than just one. If he can do that, we can win this.

I think we should open the GB team up to some sort of text voting. Every week the general public get to decide the starting lineup.

Have Dermott O'Leary announcing live on Sky Sports.

"Roby, you're still Hooker. Danny, you could still be Stand Off. Sykes, your not good enough to be even in this squad, so I'm wasting my breath here"

With the RFL I wouldn't put it past them. Would be great publicity though

Isn't that pretty much how they did it back in the day? I remember a selection "committe" for the GB team that faced Australia in '82. After the first test only the Jeffasuarus and Des Drummond played the second test. Now that's a selection policy that would not be out of place on the VT.

On a related note is the gap now as wide as it was in 1982?

didn't the old touring parties have someone from each club?

some strange blackpool representatives in the 80s mentioned in ian hadfields book i'm sure.

And no i don't think it's as wide as 82 , the invincibles were the best i've ever seen.

was it comparable to when wigan were 100% pro & everyone else was part time though?

Indeed - I realise criticising JPs performances on here are akin to slitting the throat of a sacred cow though, so I did half expect a knee jerk from someone in response.

knee jerk or not, I was mainly questioning whether you think that Peacock offers less to GB than Carvell. I guess I know your answer.

Roby at loose forward???? That must be a joke.