Very nice but a couple of glaring errors there - Luke Robinson is from Halifax and Adrian Morley is from Salford!

do we need another 'roses' thread? also surely you would have mcllorum over haughton

A Yorkshire win with those teams. However I think it shouldn't be where you were born but where you played your first first grade game.

swap matty smith for lee briers and you may be alright other than the little errors as pointed out above

yes, my bad, misremembered Morley, McIlorum and Robinson and forgot to check them. Sorted out now. McIlorum for Yorkshire instead of Houghton, Bailey instead of Morley and Higham as benching hooker for Lancashire.

interesting to note than, from the Yorkshire side, only half the squad actually play in Yorkshire, while for Lancashire only 3 play outside the county.

none of the lancashire side actually plays "in the county of lancashire", and thats the whole issue with this.

and james graham, st.george? really?

If everyone that has started a 'County of Origin' thread on here went to the game, we'd have an Origin series with bigger crowds than the NRL one.

So shouldn't they be in the Lancashire team?

For me it should be east vs west. Players should be able to choose if they want to represent their birth place ie Sinfield playing for west because he's from Oldham or Wilkin play for east because he's from hull. Alternatively players can choose which side to play for depending on where they made their professional debut, ie Sinfield playing for east because he make his debut at Leeds.

The cumbrian players could play for west side and london based players can play for east.

It'll never happen because the fans would never support it because they only care about their own teams. I support RL and then support st Helen's but I'm probably one of the very few people feel the same.

What's this, the 14th war of the roses thread in the last week surely?

Might as well just stick with the Exiles game. The fans do have a team to support already.

East vs West will never happen, mainly because no-one gives a cr*p if they're from the East or the West. You've taken the problem of the Exiles not being a team anyone can get behind and substituted it with two teams no-one can get behind.

Its all a load of guff that nobody would care much about. We need to offset our season enough against the NRL season and bring back tours, and GB. Scotland and Ireland, I mean WTF? On what planet are we living?

I noticed you didn't say Wales there...

Why include them within one big national side if they aren't going to add to it? WTF.

We might as well be Europe. Or Northern Hemisphere.

Cumbria
Yorkshire
Lancashire
Rest of UK & France potentially to include Exiles

Played in a straight knockout format with initial games drawn out of the hat.

The Rest of UK & France team will have a lot of interested fans...