I personally always look forward to the internationals as a major highlight (in fact "the" highlight) , and this year is no different , however in response to the OP's question then the answer is clearly no based on our last game....

The evidence may well change after the 5th and 12th of November, and indeed it should if the coach is worth his position.., a full strength team (upto now) aside from Burgess and home advantage...the Aussies and Kiwis already missing players..

Indeed, apparently he scoffs that people think Aussies 3rd team could beat us, well they don't need to as the Overseas retirement brigade saved them a job.

Long term solution, why is Briscoe close to retirement???

We're still not good enough man for man and we have 5hite coach. We may be more competetive but we'll still come up short. Hopefully this generation of young players will do what the previous generations could not do and become more than just a decent athlete, and actually develop into world class RL players.

S Tomkins,
Hall, Shenton, Reed, Briscoe,
Widdop, Lomax,
Graham, Roby, Peacock,
Westwood, Ellis,
O'Loughlin. Bench - Brough, Heighington, Crabtree, Carvell.

Shenton has to go in as right centre as Reed & Yeaman are both left centres.
Yeaman & Briscoe are too small together to face the Aussies.
Widdop is a shoe in and Lomax the form scrum half in the league.
Not sure about who's better for the pack or bench than the ones I've mentioned. Any Thoughts?

Exactly.
People forget Briscoe's age simply because he's been around a little while now and the size of the bloke. He's only 21 this season.

Yeah that is it.







Your the type of person who even when proved wrong will still believe your first opinion, therefore no point debating with you.

He's not my "beloved" briscoe either, but out of all the players you could have slagged it had to be a Hull one. There is a surprise.

We need a kicking game, though. Perhaps give both Lomax and Brough a half each against Wales? That way we can see if Widdop can supply a kicking game that Lomax can't, or whether Brough with his kicking gmae and perhaps superior organisation is a better bet.

Got the France game as a warm up too, agree with this sentiment though. Broughs got the kicking game we strive to have, but has lost form. Lomax is in red hot form, yet hasn't got a kicking game.

Fortunately there aren't any other sets of supporters with such overinflated opinions of their own players.

Look, you stick to your Tom Briscoe fanclub, leave it to us grownups to discuss the Rugby League

If we get our strongest team out {whatever that is}, get the tactics right, Aussie are a bit depleted {I know they have Inglis missing} then we have a chance.

On the subject of Tom Briscoe, he's decent but no world beater at the moment.