spot on!
and a guy (mellor) who has been around for ages and only now mentioned because his team are doing well.

I'd agree with that. I'd like to see the England setup really start to use people like McGuire, Sinfield, Wellens, Cunningham etc

If nobody's in decent nick in SL you could add Josh Hodgson to the list as a wildcard. He's played a bit of 7 for the Raiders and looks very comfortable there.

Widdopp still creates far too little for me. Nothing at all vs the Sharks and it was too wet to tell vs the Bunnies last week. I want to see him actually set up tries from passes or breaks he makes himself. He was ordinary as could be at the back end of last year and has started off in similar fashion this year.

As an aside, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that since Bennett took over as coach he'll be getting approached by NRL players. A really left-field halfback could be Hodkinson, who is unlikely to be picked for Origin again.

Mcguire was the best half in the country last year imo. I don't understand why he missed out. If he regains fitness and form he should at least be in the squad. (it's a hard one though as as well as wanting to win he might not be around for the WC).

Of other options I'd look at Gale Tomkins or if it isn't a fluke, Mellor.

Seriously though the OP's list contains an irishman, the scottish captain and a guy whose almost exclusively played hooker for the last 3 plus years...

I would add Myler has also looked pretty good, but I think Gale has a better all round game.

Again, talk of Tomkins, at half back, he has played full back for the last, what 5 years? as i say every year, if he isn't good enough for FB then he shouldn't be shoehorned into the side because he's Sam Tomkins.
I presume people mean Sam and not Logan or Joel?

Not just because he's Sam Tomkins; he beat Benji Marshall's Kiwis from the halves for England after all. But he's not properly played there for years, so I'd like to see him play some SL there before pitching him in at international level. We don't want to make the same mistake the fools in RU did, thinking if we could get this one guy, it'd solve all our problems.

Tomkins must be 4th choice at best at this moment in time, how can people even know how he will go, hasn't even started a game. Reputation shoild stand for fack all.
Gale has already been robbed of 3 caps by the idiot that was previously in charge, that was disgraceful.

Eorl Crabtree used to be a 20+ tries a season centre ...lets suggest he gets picked for England there based on that !!

In the Autumn we should have had a Gale and Maguire half back pairing and i think we'd have whitewashed the Kiwis with them two.

Gee Whiz Widdop and Gsle at halfback. Bring back Sir Kev

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