Cory Paterson will be joining Hull KR using the English passport he can get for having an English mother.

If he plays to his potential he will be in the mix.

I don't think we need second rate Aussies, the likes of Heighington and Henderson wouldn't even be in my team. England shouldn't go down the route of Australia, were they rob players from other countries on the basis of obtaining a passport or citizenship. We have enough decent players in England to have a competative team.

I think its demoralizing for the team in question when they take players from other nations, eg Australia taking Tamou or England taking Heighinton (even though we have more right because he actually has a connection with us). Nations should breed there own players

Have you ever looked at your cricket team?

crabtree and reed already not available, and brough is doubtful, so here goes.

full backs
tomkins, hardaker

wingers
hall, charnley, briscoe

centres
watkins, atkins, ablett

stand off
sinfield, widdop

scrum half
mcguire, lomax

props
graham, carvell, morley, S burgess, L burgess

hookers
roby, burrow

back row
ellis, hock, westwood, o'loughlin, wilkin

Have you seen your Rugby League team.......... hahahaha, full of Kiwis and Fijians

Tomkins

Charnley
Reed
Atkins
Hall

Widdop
Chase

Graham
Roby
Burgess

Westwood
Hock

Ellis

O'Loughlin
Hill
Carvell
Burrow/Sinfield

ConnorWIREO'Neill - I don't know how Hill didnt make the full team, it will be a mistake if he doesn't play in the test series

He's been the best prop in the league it'll be a joke if he doesn't , although to be honest it wouldn't suprise me with McNamara

topic is world cup not for the autumn nations ..crabtree out of this and maybe brough too yes

Why are they out? Are they having operations or something like that?

crabtree having shoulder op, had the other doen last season!

brough got injured in last game of season, but might be ok to play now as i dont think its as serious as first thought

Cheers, whats up with Reed?

1 Tomkins
2 Charnley
3 Watkins
4 Reed
5 Hall
6 Widdop
7 Brough
8 S.Burgess
9 Roby
10 Graham
11 Ellis
12 Hock
13 O'Loughlin
S Westwood
S L.Burgess
S Hill/Mossop
S Ratchford

Teams been anounced today, Hill is in the squad which is good! He's picked the inform players............ credit McNamara..... resting Roby and McGuire seems justified as well............ Rangi Chase though? Not really done much this year, and I'd agree with Johnny, put someone like Ratchford in or Gale

Reed didn't look fully fit after coming back from a broken leg earlier in the season. Widdopp is having a shoulder op.

Personally, I'd rather have Hardaker at fullback and Tomkins at 7 against Australia, as Hardaker offers a decent running game and is defensively pretty strong. When England have the ball Tomkins would play exactly as he does for Wigan anyway, regardless of the shirt number.

The biggest question is stand off. McNamara has picked Sinfield for the structure he brings to the side and his general kicking game. That's important, and maybe with Tomkins at 7 could work very well, but it also means not picking Widdopp, who is a more dangerous player than Sinfield with the ball and a very good reader of play in defence. In fact if you let Tomkins run the show, Widdopp would be able to play pretty much as he does for the Storm behind Cronk.

As for the likes of Heighington - bring them on I say. So long as they qualify and want to play for England then why the heck should RL be any different from cricket or union in picking them (why no bleating along similar lines from cricket fans about Strauss, Trott, Pietersen etc)? We're already way down on quality, tying one hand behind our backs in the name of some faux little-Englander rubbish won't help.

Just to add fuel to the last point, Mitch Achurch has already said that one of his aims is to to play for England at the next world cup. He may be nowhere near good enough, but given the real lack of depth in the england squad, the more the merrier.