Agent pan face has done a cracking job.....england are the most one dimensional team I have ever seen

Just as an aside but, despite it being the Express, I'm still shocked at how depressingly, awfully, sewer-lickingly low the standards of professional journalism have fallen.
That article is god-awful. The title is wrong, it's terribly structured, doesn't have any corroboration or supporting quotes and a section of it is repeated as if someone has copied and pasted the section twice by accident.
There are people getting paid for this sh|t that I'd be disappointed if one of the lads I coach produced for their schoolwork. And some of my lads are thick as 2 short planks.

It will be interesting to see what happens next with Sam....Writings on the wall for Lancaster - presumably he'll resign after next weekend and without Lancaster I'm not sure whether Sam will have a place in the England squad. Presumably the only reason he went to Union was to play Internationals. Hopefully he'll get some tempting offers from the NRL.

He's off to Leeds a Rhinos by the sound of it

There was an article to the same effect in the Telegraph (I've criticism of coaches). You have to agree SB's selection at centre with so little experience was ludicrous. You have to agree that someone on the coaching staff had a fixation with him playing at all costs irrespective of how they squeezed him in. His selection also screwed up their flexibility with substitutions. The next big hook for SB was to be a Lions tour but I'm not sure they would dare select him after the England debacle and the Irish chaps comments. If I were SB I would try to get back to RL as soon as possible and not waste his short career in a game he may never fully adapt to nor be appreciated in. In RL he is a great player, why throw away the future legacy of that?

The irony of you posting that after a SL season that delivered more fans purely because there were 12 more games is quite delicious.........

In other news......has Sam ever been on the winning side against 'stralia? Maybe that's what was talking to Izzy about......at least in the AFL he couldn't lose to the national side....

I have played Union from age 7 to age 43 & other than the odd broken leg/dislocated fingers etc i loved every minute of it (both during & post-match).

However, NEVER have I watched a Union game & felt "that was worth 2 hours of my time".

The best way to watch RU I find is some time after the match has finished, with Sky controller in hand. x6, x12 or x30 speed with which I watch it depends on the relative turgidity before me.

coolest story ever bro.......tell the 8 million watching the RWC or the 6 Nations....I'm sure they'd be swayed immediately

Keep going, the century beckons

Can we get Sam back in League before this post reaches 100 pages?