Wayne Bennett is a JOKE, THE SOONER WE GET RID, THE BETTER. Whilst he is coaching Brisbane Broncos, he will NEVER be able to attend any SL games, so rely's on Youtube. The RFL & Bennett deserve each other. Hope we lose to France, so we can sack the 'slanted mouth' old Aussie git.

Too many jokers from Dire for me.

How are we supposed take on the might of Australia with players who have just recently been plying their trade against the likes of London, Featherstone and Halifax? (with all due respect to these clubs)

agree, Chris Hill definitely and maybe Ratchford or Clark.

I don't quite get the balance of the squad. To go over without any cover for the wings and no specialist centre cover is baffling to me, even more so when we're taking four halfbacks plus two fullbacks who can play at Stand Off.

I'd have left out Lomax for Tomkins or Shaul, Brown for Greg Eden and Heighington/Taylor for Liam Watts (maybe both with a centre coming in also).

Stevie Ward looked in pain at points on Saturday so I presume that's why he's not in because he's finished the season very well.

Got to give Bennet some credit, he realised the darling of pie land is an over rated niggling git who gets homesick away from his mam.

Hang on. We are 14 pages in and no one has claimed "the England forwards are much better than the aussies" after about 15 years of this line being trotted out, only to see our forwards get mullered, have the users of rlfans finally come to their senses?

Regards

King James

No complaints about the squad. Great players have missed out but it's time to support the boys regardless if I think they've merited the shirt or not.
Let's head into the next SL with a buzz.

Get real this is a job for the boys squad picked by an absentee coach. I like a lot of people I know will be supporting Ireland a team that may not be Irish but at least appears to be picked on merit.

Have you had some of Hardakers talcolm powder...

here's an alternative england 13 from the ones that didn't make it
1. shaul
2. jones bishop
3. atkins
4. shenton
5. eden
6. tomkins
7. sneyd
8. g burgess
9. houghton
10. watts
11. farrell
12. ashurst
13. ward

After a stellar first season at wire where he led them to the top of the middle 8's, who can question the inclusion of kevin brown?

Betts favouritism at its highest

No Wires players should be anywhere near the squad. Our season wasn't Ben Currie's fault but I'd rather he was resting and concentrating on February. The rest of them played their way out of contention months ago.