Scotland have a better HB combination than what England have.

Steve McNamara is going to have to take a long hard look at himself after this WC. Brough should be nowhere near the Scotland squad and should be England's first choice HB. Absolute madness I'm sorry.

Great news for Scotland, cracking squad they're putting together, competitive international RL eh?

Who'd have thought it?

If only we could get them playing every year.

Exactly.

And if only they were Scottish!

Uate
Mason
Civoneceva
Hayne
Chase
Manu

oh....

Kevin Pietersen
Andrew Strauss
Owen Hargreaves
Eduardo da Silva
Mo Farah
Shontayne Hape
Henry Paul

I could go on....

Or just realise that it happens in EVERY SPORT, it's just we dwell on it so much.

We whine when International RL is uncompetitive and we can't sell it, now it is competitive and we can we moan about the reasons (perfectly legal ones) that it is.

I see the odd player in other sports representing other countries and usually they are living and playing that sport in that country. In RL it is virtually the whole team and they have rarely stepped foot in the country let alone played RL there, very different, especially as RL is hardly played in these countries like Scotland and Italy.

A bit of joke like the Irish soccer team was under Jack Charlton. Lets hope there is a Scottish side at least playing in Championship 1 for the 2015

Then at least can say that the plastic Jocks got Rugby League moving in Scotland in the right direction.

And if that was the motivation for putting these false teams together, to generate interest and act as a springboard for the development of the game in that country, then fair enough. Sadly I see little of that being the case and more interested in trying to form enough competitive teams to put on a world cup.