This whole thing is clearly a diversionary tactic to sneak Paul Sykes in under the radar...

Jesus, is this the best we can come up with?
Can see them giving Lockyer, Thurston, Cronk etc... etc... countless sleepless nights.

It is the best we can come up with, yes

If we compare these players to Lockyer and Thurston, they are obviously going to come up short... in fact just about 95% of the international half backs to play the game would come up short in comparison to these two

The real measure is whether this squad is developing England as an international RL team and I would suggest that in Myler, Tomkins and Eastmond we have some of the best young halfbacks coming through the ranks for a long time

Maybe in 10 years time, our Aussie friends will be commenting on their new halfbacks with "Jesus, is this the best we can come up with?
Can see them giving Tompkins, Eastmond, Myler etc... etc... countless sleepless nights"

OK... that may be a pipe dream but you know what I mean

Yeah, we have loads of players that step up to the plate when it comes to internationals, really stuck for choice aren't we...

Yep, Barba and Hodkinson will be sh!!ing themselves!

If we have to stoop as low as this then we know the international game is in trouble

Tom Briscoe not good enough, you really are an idiot. On current form easily the best winger in Super League

I hope that our young players don’t have the inferiority complex you seem to... if they go to Australia with that attitude they will be beaten before they start

Thought Goulding might have got a callup, being top scorer has propelled worse wingers into the squad in the past, and he's shown some fantastic finishing skills this year.

Yes, because the credibility of how good a player is is based on tackle busts.

Indeed... as demonstrated by number 5 in the tackle bust list, Stuart Fielden, who has a 5 page thread about him on these boards starting with the sentence "I cannot remember a player in any sport ever who has destroyed his reputation and his career so extensively as Stuart Fielden has"