Be a lot less work if you pointed out when he wasn't.



Kind of amusing that the two best-known products of the Victorian RL are Jeremy Smith (a kiwi) and Gareth Widdop (English).

Widdop is English with a stamp in his British Passport allowing him to live in Australia.

Difficult really want is Mark O Meley and his wife have a son while playing for Hull, they then leave 6 months later, the son live in Austrailia for the next 25 years playing NRL, he them moves to England and signs for SL club, would he count on Quota?



Hard to decide if they count or not on the quota if they here born in the UK or have a Britsig passport as you could have never lived in the Uk and still get a passport through your parents.

um billy slater, jarred hayne, nah i think we dont need him thanks

if they make themselves available to play for England they don't count on the quota. lets take a leaf out of Australias book!

and develop some players

Slater will be 27 in a couple of weeks. Hayne is only a year older than Widdop, which was ads7fax's obvious point. And to continue the point, if we don't have Hayne, there's always Dugan and Coote, who are both younger than Widdop.



Coote's try-scoring record and kick-return metres speak for themself. Dugan has already broken into the rep scene and was Man of the Match on debut. And despite going off injured before the 55 minute mark today, he racked up a try, a try-assist, two linebreaks, 14 tackle breaks and ran over 170m.



Hayne deserves to be first choice NSW fullback, but he's got two awesome talents hot on his tail.

darius boyd

mat bowen

todd carney





im too tired to remember the fullbacks of the other nrl teams



widdop is an under 20s player who has had limited NRL experience



england have rushed him into their test line up



the conclusion is pretty obvious

I think it's safe to say Bowen's rep career is all but finished. Still a very capable player, but Queensland and Australia have moved on.



Carney, despite putting in excellent games at fullback, should find himself in the halves if he ever cracks Origin or above.



Boyd is a straight up gun and deserves to be second choice fullback for QLD.



I think Widdop is good enough to be the England fullback, but his real test won't come until the Four Nations.

yeah true on bowen, i was just trying to think of all the aussie fullbacks who are better than widdop cause someone on here was saying we might pinch him.

Widdop's lack of opportunity at club level is a big stumbling block. In such a competitive position, he can't afford to be playing reserves for much longer. I think the Bulldogs, post-Patten, would be a good fit for him.

yeah salary cap problems or not the storm arent letting slater go anywhere.



shame about haynsey for origin, he played all over slater



the match up in origin wouldve been something else