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All 400 of them Spud ?

Similar to the team that won the Euro Cup ( not sure of the exact title ) a few years back with Westwood , Parker , Crabtree and several others without breaking sweat

RL is a sport that even with fairly small differences in quality tends to produce lob sided results , it is not a sport that you can sneak a plucky draw at

It serves the same purpose of encouraging young players to commit to England by dangling the carrot of a test cap to players that aren't good enough. You can't make that argument about SOO and not about England Knights.

You mean ' English ' players choosing to play for ' England ' , what a strange concept , never work

People moan about Origin encouraging Australian players not to commit to Pacific nations. You can't have it both ways, just because it's England doesn't make it right in this case. Players should have a choice without being coerced.

What Australia does is nothing to do with our situation

In what way is having options to choose ' coercion ' ? , John Duffy is from W1g4n , he plays for Scotland , ditto Mick Nanyn , both their choice , however there are still hundreds of other Championship players that will only qualify for England who are highly unlikey ever to get to either SL or the top tier international teams , these are the players that could help to ' bring on ' the home nations , the benifit would not directly be England , it would be the the other nations that would benefit from competitive matches

That's nothing to do with my post and I think you've completely misunderstood what I'm trying to say. The Championship team is a stupid idea too but I'm not talking about that here.