why is he doing something morally wrong?

He opted to play for Scotland at a time when his chances of playing for England were much more remote yet the platform of international games would offer him a pathway to Great Britain selection and games against Australia and New Zealand.

The Rugby football league then moved the goalposts by disbanding Great Britain and therefore removing any possibility of any representatives from the Celtic nations playing against the top two in the world.

The only way to restore that pathway is to become eligible for England and therefore create the possibility of playing in the four Nations.

Removing Great Britain was no small thing, had the Rugby league made their intentions known to players like Danny Brough etc they might never have aligned themselves with other countries.

The fault here lies not with the players but with the administration.

You fed the troll!!!

well lets hope he chokes on it

We'd need more experience in the halves against the Aussies. Imo you'd need one of Myler/Eastmond/Tomkins then one of Brough/Burrow

or someone else.

1 paul wellens
2 tom briscoe
3 martin gleeson
4 michael shenton
5 ryan hall
6 leon pryce
7 rob burrow
8 adrian morley
9 james roby
10 jamie peacock
11 sam burgess
12 garreth ellis
13 sean o' loughlin

14 danny mcguire
15 james graham
16 jon wilkin
17 jamie langley (would have picked gareth hock)

rest of squad from
shaun briscoe, peter fox, ryan atkins, ritchie myler, louie mccarthy scarsbrook, eorl crabtree, ben westwood, scott moore

is it a 25 man squad?

if so id go..................

FB - Briscoe

Wings - Fox, Hall, Riley

Centres - Senior, Shenton, Atkins, Pryce

Half backs - Myler, McQuire, Tomkins

Hookers - Diskin, Roby

Props - Peacock, Morley, Graham, Crabtree, Carvell

2nd row - Ellis, Burgess, Wilkin, JJB, Westwood

Loose - Sinfield, O'Loughlin

and probably have the 17 emboldened

Only one prop on the bench?


Graham should be used from start, as should Peacock, two of Morley, Carvell, Lynch, Crabtree & -dare i say it? - Faasavalu should be used from bench for impact.

Other than that it looks an okay team, apart from I wouldn't take Burrow or Gleeson.

Morley, Peacock, Graham and Carvell would be my props.

I'd probably agree, but it would be a certainty for me that Peacock and Graham should be starters. Burgess has been ripping it up as impact prop in the last few games though so that would be another option.

It's been said 1000times, but Sinfield is not at all big enough to play in the pack against the Aussies or Kiwis.

Good call on Burgess. Plenty of impact.
Burgess has enough energy to fill in at second row if needed in my opinion so would be a great player to have on the bench.

Yeah, I still don't think he's a Loose though, although he did play a blinder against the french.


I'd see him mostly as a prop, who can also play in the back row.