Aye, his indiscretion probably cost Cas the title, and it could well have ruined England's chances of the World cup.

I'd like to think any young centre playing in SL next year will be busting a gut to force their way into the squad. If Percival can add some physicality to his game he's definitely the front runner, but hopefully the likes of Sutcliffe, Gildart and Connor can have a great season as well. Sutcliffe and Connor have the psychical attributes, they just need an extended run in that position.

Given what Gale has offered, Sneyd would have given us far more, Brown has being better than Gale though still not good enough to really dent the okkers. If Taylor doesn't get on the bench in front of Heighington if SOL is out it'd be a travesty, I just think fresher legs in Taylor over one of the other forwards would benefit us. Heighington is pants.
We simply do not have enough across the board to win IMHO, Bateman isn't good enough for what we need, I get that he has plenty of endeavour but in attack he's massively lacking and the Aussies know we'll be shifting it to JM.

Whitehead went well today but his first decent match, Hill better but again has being average throughout, S.Burgess yet again disappointing, Graham does what he does and is pick of the forwards but his 'step' is oh so predictable and doesn't achieve anything, Walmsley was good and Currie not involved enough/not on long enough.

Watts must be thinking what he has to do to get into the England squad because he offers more than at least 2 of the 17 picked today by a mile.

I would love us to do them in their backyard but I just can't see past a 10+ point win to them and I think that's being optimistic.

I think Graham's step has meant he's not BEEN dominated in the collision.

Will be interesting to see what the England team looks like in 12 months time. Regardless of next weeks result I don't think Bennett will be interested in carrying on past this WC so I expect a new coach. I'd guess O'Loughlin may end his international days after this as well given his age.

You're right. I'd line up with a Hull team. They'd win this tournament.

what a petty comment, yet we have 3 under performing warrington players and one who only played about 60 minutes from this season who managed to get picked!

gale hasn't been any good since he picked up his mom award either, heighington...


same players being picked year on year, square pegs round holes, nothing has changed over the years, more than likely we will get beat next week, yet i'll bet 90% off this squad will be the one that is named v the kiwis this time next year

3 players are not a whole team, you need to learn to count sonshine! Not seeing the point of Percival and Lomax in the squad but you know, you've a whole team of stains players in there


Those 3 players were an integral part in the CC winners/3rd placed side, Sneyd is a miles better kicker than Gale, Gale has offered next to nothing, a massive let down, Watts is a better forward than Hill and currently S.Burgess and showed it all season, he's a decent ball handler too in a similar mould to Graham. Taylor hasn't had a fair go but did just fine with his go forward and especially his defence.
Putting forward names of players you think should have a go is all part of discussing matters on a forum, if you don't agree instead of whining like a little bitch put forward reasons why you disagree!

Gale hasn't produced his SL form but you couldn't argue with his selection at the time, Snead over Brown BEFORE the WC you definitely could.

Seems Bennett had his mind made up of his squad since last year and wasn't really going to include new guys from this years showings.

Like I mentioned previously the lineup of the England squad in 12 months time could be interesting with probably a new coach.

Just watched the bbc news channels sport report and they had time to show a clip of Ireland v Argentina playing yawnion but no mention of England having played today live on bbc which shows how much they give a toss about it, mind you I don’t think the RFL give a toss either unless it’s about freebies for the top guys

well we certainly played like a hull team does in the CC final, in control for 70 mins then an almighty scare in the last 2 minutes

just to add a little something else to the debate - i hope we are not tempted to patch up these injured players to get them on the park, this seldom works in big games. i'm sure bennett is too experienced to go down this road

Apart from you being outplayed for most of the opening hour in 2016 and not scoring a point.

Or maybe you meant 2013