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!

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

That will probably always be the case. Auntie is being shamed into [iseeming[/i to be more evenly representative, but it's all cockeyed. On the Beeb news this morning, they showed footage of Women's footie before the WC RL SF!

As it happens, Grimmo, the writer enjoys watching "yawnion" as well as the evolved (devolved?) code but he hates the protection that is given to RU by the, predominantly, (blindingly) white collar, media.

Back on thread, can't see an English win next week but where there's life there's hope. Will be screaming at the tele (as next weekend will not see the missus woken at an ungodly hour). Come on you Poms.

Chris H (sadly) has defo got to be seeing his last WC, Bateman shouldn't have seen this one (unless he paid for his own tickets).

Gayle's kicks, bar a couple, came under quick, heavy pressure and were therefore rushed, misdirected and ultimately fruitless (as were a couple of early hoists from Brown). Whilst it may signal intent, is it that revolutionary for the halves to drop three or four yards further behind the ruck later in sets? It can always be a bluff.

Sam has shone like a Toc H lamp so far this tournament - though at least he'd applied a bit of Prittstick to his paws this weekend. England need a big shift from him in the final.

Disagreeing with an earlier poster on this thread, thought Widdop was not just the MOM today but da DADDY too.

England need to improve, but they've done so week on week thus far.

Just bloomin' well go out there and 'ave a bloomin' go in what may well be the biggest game of your lives.

England reaching the RLWC Final was the main sport headline on the 10pm news on BBC1.

And a decent report, ahead of the RU internationals.

Wonder if it'll warrant a mention at any point before kick-off next week.

Yeah saw that afterwards as well, just don’t understand the inconsistency with their sports reporting

The DG obviously read Bongser's earlier diatribe. But, then again, it could've been merely a ploy to distract from other England sportsmen (more favoured by The Corporation) that may very well face a damn good aris-kicking at the hands of another team from Upside-Down. At least Scotland RU (that's the code where the Scottish players are Scots - confusing it has to be said) tonked some Aussies.

So you've had a go at someone criticising Bennett with basically "what have you done as a coach" yet you slag off a 2 time CC winning coach calling him rubbish? Do you have a few CC wins to your name to be able to critique him or are you determined lately to make yourself look daft?

We were so fragile during the last ten minutes yesterday that I'm worried we could get blown away if the Aussies get an early lead. I really hope that it's a close game though. It won't be good for RL if the final is massively one-sided. There will hopefully be a decent TV audience in England so I just want the final to be close so that it keeps peoples attention. Realistically I probably wouldn't give us more than a 10-20% chance of winning, but you never know. The Kiwis managed to surprise them in 2008 so maybe we can do the same.

Unless they were playing at 50% in the opening game, they are definitely beatable.

We were the better team in the second half but a penalty given to them (that shouldn’t have) at 10-4 took the game away from us.

We roughed Cronk up and took him out of the game, the only thing is Slater stepped up as the third pivot.

But yes we can beat them... BELIEVE!