You have not seen much of Crabtree this year then. he killed the wire forwards and yesterday was our MOM.

A 50m catch and return bowling players over left right and centre and in the first half a run took 4 players out and left Radford wondering what day of the week it was

Well I've watched two out of three of your games, he looks the same as always. He is the most over rated forward in Superleague.

yet in the 2009 four nations he had a very god series. ( less good in OZ last time as apparently he was instructed by McBanana to keep it tight and NOT TO OFFLOAD).

I would say that most Huddersfield fans ( and Hull fans after yesterday ) would disagree with you. I could link this thread to our board and invite further views

Do what you want mate, I am sure linking it to your board would get a very unbiased opinion on him.

He goes missing too often, he may have had a cracking game yesterday (based on your report) but he's just not good enough for England.

Crabtree 15 full caps Scruton 6 full caps. Tony Smith and others obviously disagree with you ( i will not put Mc B in there)

FWIW i like Lynch and think he should have had more caps.

Crabtree is different to a lot of other props he is not an 80 m man like Graham, an enforcer like Morley but is one of the best offloaders in RL. as an interchange prop he is as good as any and better than most English props.

I'm not really sure why Scruton has been added to the discussion when I've never mentioned his name? For what it's worth Scruton is a couple of years younger than Earl and he didn't do his international career any favours when he came to play at Bradford in what was a very average squad. If we had done well over the last few years then I feel Scruton would of got a call up.

Earl has got an offload (only 31 compared to 75 from Lynch in 2010 though I may add) but that's about it for me. To me he is a nothing player, he doesn't seem to have the stamina for the hard graft as he's such a big unit and he can often seem to be missing the aggression needed when taking the ball up and making a real impact.

Well you will get a chance to see him on Friday night. If he impresses you then i will be pleased as we will have got two points. he was devastating against Hull and really seems to have got his form back this season.

Looking forward to the game on Friday, should be a really good battle and hopefully an entertaining game for a neutral.

I will be sure to keep an eye out for Mr Crabtree, can hardly miss him

Crabtree offers something different to every other prop in the squad. I'm not saying the Aussies will fear him, but there's not many others we have who could come on and knock a few bodies about etc.

I still think Lynch should be in the squad. Ferres better than Whitehead or Langley??

The Ferres inclusion is baffling. I would like to know the thought process in that one.

I think Sheriffe & Worrincy passed on those photos of McNamara

“@mikeplatty: wow i must b propa sh:te at rugby # england backs!!”