The legend who knocked Hanley half way back to the UK and showed him up as the average player he really was

New revised team.

Shaun Briscoe (Paul Sykes is gash)
Tom Briscoe (Peter Fox is gash)
Gareth Ellis (need a strike weapon outside)
Michael Shenton
Ryan Hall
Danny McGuire
Sam Tomkins
Adrian Morley
James Roby
James Graham
Jamie Peacock
Sean O'loughlin
Sam Burgess

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Louie McCarthy Scarsbrook
Gareth Carvell
Scott Moore
Eorl Crabtree (to be used in the second row)

I would accept that our backs are gash in comparison to the Aussies and the kiwis and our sole focus should be on our forwards to lead the way. The Les Catalans of the International scene if you like.

Uh, how does that work?

You grind your forwards into the dirt against opposition that has consistantly beaten them over 40 years straight?


Good idea.

The best part is, Lamb played around 350 first grade games, unbelieveable, his try scoring record was amazing, he was the key player in a number of Premiership winning teams, he played Origin and Test football even in an era of the likes of Fittler, Daley, Kenny, Lyons and the like.....

And these stupid pommy idiots have no idea how good he was. They are probably looking him up on Wikipedia, the bloody stupid idiots!

lamb was a great little player, even though i hated the pr*ck. however, hanley was a once in a generation type player,he moved better than most players ive ever seen. i dont expect you to understand, as you hate all things english, but hanley was twice the player lamb ever was.

Don't be so stupid all your life.

With lockers injured Sinfield gets the nod:

Shaun Briscoe
Tom Briscoe
Gareth Ellis
Michael Shenton
Ryan Hall
Danny McGuire
Sam Tomkins
Adrian Morley
James Roby
James Graham
Jamie Peacock
Sam Burgess
Kevin Sinfield

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LMS
Gareth Carvell
Scott Moore
Eorl Crabtree

I thought you didn't care?

[url=http://www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=rleague/09/10/20/RUGBYL_Referees.htmlNew Zealander Leon Williamson will referee the opening Gillette Four Nations fixture between England and France at Doncaster's Keepmoat Stadium on Friday night.[/url

Who are you and why are you talking to me?


Wait...no....you were right the first time.....

Just like lickle Shaun did to big, bad Bradley Clyde. Is Brad still crying about it? He was spewing years later, pathetic wimp.

A few years ago I was talking to an Aussie friend, who was a fair bit older than me, and his knowledge of RL was far head of someone like you. He liked his banter and would have a dig about us not being good at RL. He said that the two toughest players to have played the game in Australia were all British - Mal Reilly and Cliff Watson.

Funnily enough, I was at some 'do' after a Sharks game at Toyota Park and they had some awards 'do' (may have been something like a Sharks hall of fame, I can't quite remember), and someone got up to talk about Cliff Watson, and that person said he was the toughest player to have played in Australia. It was met with approval by older members of the audience, including Chris Anderson and Andrew Ettingshausen.

as england have chosen many youngsters in the squad, i decided to pick an england side of players 21 and under,

1) richard owen (castleford)
2) ryan hall (leeds)
3) michael lawrence (huddersfield)
4) kyle eastmond (st helens)
5) tom briscoe (hull)
6) sam tomkins (wigan)
7) ritchie myler (warrington)


sam burgess (south sydney)
9) scott moore (st helens)
10) ben harrison (warrington)
11) joe westerman (castleford)
12 dale ferguson (wakefield)
13) mark flanagan (west tigers)

14) mike cooper (warrington)
15) danny houghton (hull)
16) luke adamson (salford)
17) kallum watkins (leeds)