We could have squad members from Canberra, St George, Catalans, Brisbane, Canterbury, NZ Warriors, Souths, Leeds, Wigan, Huddersfield, Warrington, Saints, Hull, Castleford - how many sets of club colours do you want?

Look at this side from the 2008 W/C semi to see how things have moved on:

England: Wellens (Saints), Gardner (Saints), Gleeson (Warr), Senior (Leeds), Calderwood (Leeds), McGuire (Leeds), Burrow (Leeds), Graham (Saints), Roby (Saints), Peacock (Leeds), Westwood (Warr), Ellis (Leeds), Purdham (London).
Replacements: Pryce (Saints), Morley (Warr), Higham (Warr), Wilkin (Saints).

Asking Tomkins to play half-back is too much but asking to be a bench hooker, a position he has never played is a good compromise? What...?

The difference between 6 and 1 these days is negligible. The only difference really is without the ball.

Widdop is a highly rated, first choice standoff playing in the best league in the world, so he should be a shoe in given we don't have anyone else currently demonstrating that kind of calibre. However, I'm a traditionalist, I think we should do as we've done in the past and pick a loose forward to play at standoff, the Kiwis won't be expecting that!

If RTS and Inglis were both Aussies, would you just leave one of them out? The answer is no and you are very naive.

He's played at dummy-half for the Warriors.

If the difference between 6 and 1 is negligible, just ask Rocky Hampshire...

yes, if there were players better than them in that position that deserved to be in the team

i didn't realise the England team HAS to include Sam Tomkins?