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

Am I missing something, or are they actually going to try and select 22 Wigan, St.Helens and Leeds players, which I seriously cannot see happening.

And to be fair the only player from Warrington imo that deserves a spot is Morley, and monas did carry Wire to their only trophy. So yeah I agree with you there.

hmm im sure i read somewhere its 40 man squads..
theres no way theres only going to be 2 each from wigan saints and leeds.
Lockers and Gleeson are certs from wigan alone..thats before you look at the younger guys throughout the teams

its a 40 man training squad to be gradualy cut down with the final squad annouced after the wales game.

Briscoe.
Pryce/Shenton
Gleeson
Senior/Shenton
Hall
McGuire
Burrow
Peacock
Roby
Graham
Elllis
Burgess
O'Loughlin

Morley
Carvell
Westwood
Gilmour

I think carvell has been great for wire this season, one of the form props in the competition. As for westwood he hasnt stood out when i've seen him but was one of the few that did nothing wrong at the world cup so putting him in the train on sqaud seems reasonable.

Higham? not sure how he got in, behind roby and moore.

as much as i hate to say so....carvell is gonna be in the starting 17...


him and mozza have been the 2 stand out props this season imo

[urlhttp://www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=rleague/09/10/01/RUGBYL_England.html[/url and now two more wire players.

Like bridge as a player, but dont see harrison as anything special.

Bridge is a class player who has found his position at centre as has good feet and strength but hasn't got a kicking game to play in the halves. Harrison is one of my favourite players. Big-hitting forward, with a good offload and an incredible work-ethic.

Both are young players who potentially have futures in the national team and will benefit from the experience. I don't expect either to feature in this series although given we are hardly blessed with outside backs, Bridge could be a shout. He is in my opinion much better than Sykes in every position from 1-7.

Agreed.

Can someone explain to me why in a squad 'picked on form' there are more players from tenth placed Warrington than the four eliminated playoff sides put together?

Absolutely no excuse for having a club coach as national team coach and Smith needs to decide where his priorities lie

My team at the moment would be:

1. Briscoe
2. Hall
3. Gleeson
4. Shenton
5. Fox/Briscoe (Fox is a great athlete but not sure about his hands and some of his decision-making)
6. Tompkins
7. Burrow/McGuire (depending on form in next couple of weeks)
8. Morley
9. Moore
10. Peacock
11. Burgess
12. Ellis
13. O'Loughlin
14. Roby
15. Graham
16. Crabtree
17. Westwood

Another back who I'd like to see continue to progress is Welham who seems to be a classy young player already reads the game very well, although maybe isn't a great natural athlete.

Edited as forgot Burgess!