Leroy Cudjoe??!?!? He's been off form this season, Darrell Goulding should have been picked ahead of him IMO, so should Andy Lynch and Westwood ahead of Peacock or JJB. And as much as it annoys me to see the Pies fans go on about him all of the time, McIlorum should have been a dead cert. The only reason I can conceive for him not being selected is that McNamara plans to play Roby for the full 80 minutes, but why in that case was Rob Burrow picked?

I know that no matter what squad McBanana picked, he would be criticised, but he's not helping himself too much!

If McBanana wants a player to stand on the 22m all game, occasionally putting up high kicks, then Wilkin should be a shoe in.
McIllorum, a very well coached average hooker.

Stand on the 22m all game?? That would be a very impressive feat for any player to get away with, think it would have been noticed before now though!!

But he aint Fricken English

What a joke.

Good to see tickle rewarded for his form this season and josh hodgson who has played great for rovers this season too.
Anyone else think England vs England knights would make for an interesting game, the knights having a lot of young players with ambition against the older more experienced guard

im a giants fan and i dont think cudjoe should be starting for us at mo as he has been really poor so shocked he is in england team

If the Knights squad included the best young players available then it would be a very interesting game, but the current Knights squad omits some very talented young players and simply keeps the bulk of the players picked at the start of the year regardless of whether they are in form, are playing regularly or are the best available.

I wasn't arguing that, I was arguing that he hasn't been poor this season.

As a Cas fan i wasnt very happy that Chase chose England and turned his back on NZ, but this is where we are in RL nowadays.

He is now and England player and the though of a Chase/Brough half back pairing really excites me and i think they will compliment each other perfectly.

But knowing mcNamara he will probably not play either of then and have Sinfield at 6 and Peacock at 7

I can't believe these words are coming out of my mouth but I would rather have a more in form auzzie/kiwi than Sinfield to partner Brough. I admit this contradicts what I said in the past but Sinfield and the rest of Leeds gave been extremely dire this year so I don't why they should have a god given right to remain in the england squad.

Just because he is top of the assists chart doesnt mean he is the form stand off in SL...all that proves is that Cas (who are poor and currently 12th in table) look to him to create their tries. Both Wigan and Saints have got 2 players in Top 10 for assists so all that proves is that better teams have more than 1 player to look to.

Chase was poor in 4N last year for England, and hasnt set SL alight this year at all, when I have seen him he has been nothing but avergae and looks like a 1 trick pony who was good last year and has since been found out. Pryce is in far better form at Catalans, Lomax is playing well at Saints and both of these are English so why should Chase be included before either of those?