You are Eorl Crabtree and I claim my £5

He shouldn't. He's Welsh and proud of it.

Bingo.

bloody them in the knights....thats what its there for!!!


and please stop with the welham nonsense.....he could'nt tackle josh charnley at the weekend imagine what inglis,hodges or SKD would do to him

When you put it like that, it does look like a crusade... Atkins is a good SL player and I was hoping he would step up last year and become a good international centre –he’s strong enough and quick enough that’s for sure but he let himself down badly in last year’s 4 Nations. Not just his man on man defence, his reading of the play from Australia and New Zealand was very poor

I don’t know if anybody can do better but it’s at least worth finding out

according to Bootsnall its

6. sinfield
7. brough

that'll do for me...kev a solid 6,does'nt do a lot wrong,he'll marshall the pack around the pitch and it will enable brough to concentrate on doing 'special' things

But how far forward does this take us as a team?

I thought we had stopped playing loose forwards at stand-off after Farrell and Sculthorpe and now we are doing it all over again with O'Loughlin last year and now Sinfield

God, I hope Widdop is fit at the end of the year!

not sure what you mean...but what it suggests to me is that come the end of the season widdop will play 6 and kev will revert to the utility role as cover....so if you think about it like that it does show some forward thinking on Mcnamaras part.........god help us

and i think thats abit hard on sinfield to lump him in with scully*,farrell & o'loughlin who are/where proper forwards...sinfield should have always been a halfback or hooker



* i always had scully down as a fantastic 6...but maybe thats just me?

Sculthorpe won the Man of Steel award playing at 6. He was an excellent Stand Off.

Sculthorpe was an excellent stand off because he was an excellent player - but he really was a loose forward

As has been said before it's all about what role you ask the player to fulfil rather than what number he wears on his back. You could pick Sinfield at 13 but he wouldnt be effective if you ask him to be a workhorse.
Same goes for Brough, there's no point picking him if you don't want him to do what he does at his club.

Right I see your point now, even if they did well there we should of had a recognised 6?

People who i would have in :

Kevin Brown.....seems an obvious choice after picking Brough, to have his half back club partner in who are cutting through most defences this year !!

LMS.....is he injured or just not picked?

Yeaman ....on form and playing well

Griffin.....better than Crabtree for me this year

Foster.....maybe young and inexperienced but is playing superbly well and IMO could have took that enthusiasm into this game

Just not picked.

Hmmmm...........strange !!