It has to be a player who more or less picks theirselves for the national side.

I think Morley is a good suggestion with Ellis as his vice.

Morley then Ellis, both certain starters and both have a wealth of experience.

Morley. Captain.
Ellis. V. Captain

I hope to 'him upstairs' that you're not being serious?

morley captain

burgess vice captain...he's gonna be captain one day anyway

Not unlike peacock then. At least with the captains armband he has a legitimate reason to talk to the ref.

Only Graham & Roby have been man of steel and graham was the first voted for by the players.

Needs to be GB based for media work.

More I think about it more I think hes the only choice.

only issue with Ellis, does he know all the players well enough? he wont have played much with or against the likes of Eastmond and Tomkins , so wont know their personalities well enough, how to motivate them etc etc etc

Morley prob should get the job as the "old man" of the team, which is basically what you want your captain to be. Graham vice captain.

Spot on for me.

Morley, without a doubt.

Thank you Mr Hemmings, you can go back to polishing Stevo's bonce now

Morley, Ellis, Sinfield.

The obvious choice is Morley.

He was England's best player in the last tournament, but then again even when half backs win man of the series they are dropped for no-mark hype machines

Pick the team first, then choose the best person for captain. Sinfield for example makes a dood captain for Leeds but is not guaranteed to be in the 17 for England thus would be an odd choice.

The 37 man squad is listed below

Chris Bridge (Warrington), Tom Briscoe (Hull FC), Kyle Eastmond (St Helens), James Graham (St Helens), Ryan Hall (Leeds), Sean O`Loughlin (Wigan), Danny McGuire (Leeds), Adrian Morley (Warrington), Jamie Peacock (Leeds), James Roby (St Helens), Nick Scruton (Bradford), Michael Shenton (Castleford), Kevin Sinfield (Leeds), Sam Tomkins (Wigan), Ben Westwood (Warrington), Shaun Lunt (Huddersfield), Kevin Brown (Huddersfield), Richard Myler (Warrington), Ryan Atkins (Warrington), Jodie Broughton (Salford), Leroy Cudjoe (Huddersfield), Peter Fox (Hull KR), Lee Smith (Leeds), Gareth Carvell (Warrington), Ben Harrison (Warrington), Jamie Langley (Bradford), Tony Clubb (Harlequins RL), Ben Jones-Bishop (Harlequins RL), Andy Lynch (Bradford), Joe Westerman (Castleford), Kirk Yeaman (Hull), Louie McCarthy Scarsbrook (Harlequins), Eorl Crabtree (Huddersfield), Scott Moore (St Helens), Paul Sykes (Bradford), Jon Wilkin (St Helens), Willie Manu (Hull FC).

From that list, I can see three current club captains – Adrian Morley, Kevin Sinfield and Andy Lynch

Lynch is a good player but is by no means certain to be on the plane down under never mind in the 17

The problem I have with Morley being captain is similar to the Peacock era – ideally, your captain should be on the field for 80 minutes... if for nothing more that the motivational aspect

This leaves Sinfield – and a lot of people posting on these pages (who won’t be picking the team of course) are listing Sinfield and 9 with Roby on the bench suggesting Sinfield will not necessarily be an 80 minute player

Ellis would make a fine captain and I would have no problems there – Burgess is a couple of years away and Graham is never captain material. Nobody in the backs jumps out as a candidate

It boils down to this for me – whoever McNamara picks for 13 out of Sinfiled and O’loughlin should be captain