1. Shaun Briscoe
2. Peter Fox
3. Martin Gleeson
4. Keith Senior
5. Ryan Hall
6. Leon Pryce
7. Richie Myler
8. James Graham
9. Scott Moore
10. Jamie Peacock
11. Gareth Ellis
12. Ben Westwood
13. Sean O'Loughlin

14. James Roby
15. Adrian Morley
16. Sam Burgess
17. Jon Wilkin

thats a good team imo... id go with that however swap pryce for either mcguire or tomkins. the rest leave..

The Aussies must be having a good laugh at our potential line-up. If that is the team and the best we can do, then we might aswell not even bother turning up. Cant believe the Aussie's will have a choice between Slater and Hayne for fullback, and we have Briscoe. Were screwed.....

yeah cos games are won and lost on the choice of 1 player...


australia having the greatest backline the game has ever seen did'nt do them much good last november did it.....

1) Briscoe
2) Fox
3) Gleeson
4) Shenton
5) Hall
6) Tomkins
7) Myler
Morley
9) Moore
10) Peacock
11) Burgess
12) Ellis
13) O'Loughlin
14) Roby
15) Graham
16) Crabtree
17) Wilkin

I really do have problems with people "thinking" Enland, in any guise can beat the Aussies at Rugby League.

We won't and will not until certain people and clubs take their head out of their collective backsides and realise what the REAL problem is!!

But they can't and if they did it is doubtful they would change because their narrow minded my club sod anyone else attitude would preclude it!

I never said they were, i was merely emphasising the vast difference in quality and skill that Aus have to choose from and what we have to choose from in one position.

As for the WC final, the Aussies went into the game too cocky and complacent, and NZ had the game of their lives. The previous games before that and the one this year shows they are miles ahead of NZ and Aus, its just unlucky for them the game they lost was the final. Of course NZ and Eng can beat them on any given day, its just that day doesnt come round too often.

Myler ahead of Burrow?

I wouldn't want to go into an internatonal with an untested half-back pairing.

As much as I am against sticking with the status quo, I reckon England should start as the same team that came out last time, with possibly 3-5 changes at most. Over the tourney you could then try some more new faces, but you can't swap half the squad about and expect them to play as a team.

we have a pretty good build up with games again wales & france (no disrespect) before it starts getting abit harder so we can try out the untested pairings then...plus we don't have to beat australia in the group game to make the final,just france & NZ....

Just the World Champions and France....the 10th best team in the world to englands high 8th ranking.

Eorl Crabtree, Scott Moore, Shaun Briscoe and Peter Fox added to the squad. So from the current 18 mine my would be :

1 S. Briscoe
2 Fox
3 Sykes
4 Shenton
5 T. Briscoe
6 Ratchford
7 Myler

8 Morley
9 Moore
10 Crabtree
11 Ellis
12 Westwood
13 Burgess

14 Higham
15 Tickle
16 McCarthy Scarsbrook
17 Carvell

18 Clubb

18 players picked so 22 from leeds, saints and wigan.

1. Leeds
2. St. Helens
3. Huddersfield (Moore, Crabtree) x2
4. Hull KR (Briscoe, Fox) x2
5. Wakefield (-) x0
6. Wigan
7. Castleford (Shenton) x1
8. Catalans
9. Bradford (Burgess, Sykes) x2
10. Warrington (Higham, Carvell, Morely, Westwood) x4
11. Harlequins (Clubb, LMS)
12. Hull FC (Briscoe, Tickle) x2
13. Salford (Myler, Ratchford) x2
14. Celtic (-) x0

And Ellis.

I am really worried as to the sheer level of bias on show here from Smith. How can he justify 4 players from 10th place in the league compared to none from wakefield? At the moment it is going to be more than from Wigan, Saints or Leeds who have all performed much better this season, as with only 6 places left in the squad we are going to get an average of 2 each from these teams. Warrington have been terrible for much of this year and without players like Monahan and the Andersons they would be nowhere. Smith has lost it.

So we have left from Wigan, Leeds and Saints 6 players to choose:
Wigan: Sam Tomkins; O'Loughlin; Gleeson?
Saints: Eastmond; Graham; Roby; Pryce; Wellens?; Gardener?
Leeds: Smith; Senior; Hall; McGuire; Burrow; Peacock; Sinfield; Diskin?

Could all realistically by vying for places. And we only get 6.
Personally: Tomkins; O'Loughlin; Graham; Roby; Hall; Peacock if I had to chose but this isn't going to happen. Smith has lost it if I havent seriously got this wrong :/

Its a 40 man squad.
The andersons, hicks, rauhihi and monas have been CRUD for most of the season, monas only performing for about 8 games.
Higham will be nowhere near, westwood and carvell thereabouts and morley a definate.
In fact warry would have finished higher up with no aussies