That would be around 58 seconds more quality than Super League then!

I tend to agree with the doom merchants on here.

Let's just cancel the whole pointless thing.

I personally always look forward to the internationals as a major highlight (in fact "the" highlight) , and this year is no different , however in response to the OP's question then the answer is clearly no based on our last game....

The evidence may well change after the 5th and 12th of November, and indeed it should if the coach is worth his position.., a full strength team (upto now) aside from Burgess and home advantage...the Aussies and Kiwis already missing players..

Indeed, apparently he scoffs that people think Aussies 3rd team could beat us, well they don't need to as the Overseas retirement brigade saved them a job.

Long term solution, why is Briscoe close to retirement???

We're still not good enough man for man and we have 5hite coach. We may be more competetive but we'll still come up short. Hopefully this generation of young players will do what the previous generations could not do and become more than just a decent athlete, and actually develop into world class RL players.

S Tomkins,
Hall, Shenton, Reed, Briscoe,
Widdop, Lomax,
Graham, Roby, Peacock,
Westwood, Ellis,
O'Loughlin. Bench - Brough, Heighington, Crabtree, Carvell.

Shenton has to go in as right centre as Reed & Yeaman are both left centres.
Yeaman & Briscoe are too small together to face the Aussies.
Widdop is a shoe in and Lomax the form scrum half in the league.
Not sure about who's better for the pack or bench than the ones I've mentioned. Any Thoughts?

Exactly.
People forget Briscoe's age simply because he's been around a little while now and the size of the bloke. He's only 21 this season.

We need a kicking game, though. Perhaps give both Lomax and Brough a half each against Wales? That way we can see if Widdop can supply a kicking game that Lomax can't, or whether Brough with his kicking gmae and perhaps superior organisation is a better bet.

Got the France game as a warm up too, agree with this sentiment though. Broughs got the kicking game we strive to have, but has lost form. Lomax is in red hot form, yet hasn't got a kicking game.

If we get our strongest team out {whatever that is}, get the tactics right, Aussie are a bit depleted {I know they have Inglis missing} then we have a chance.

On the subject of Tom Briscoe, he's decent but no world beater at the moment.

do any of you so called fans wonder why we're "so bad"...

give them a bloody chance...everyone thought we'd get hammered by the exiles but ended up losing in the last minute!! yet you'd have thought by the response we'd have lost by a 100!!

how do we expect these players to fulfil their potential and give us a side capable of beating the aussies if we're ripping them to pieces before a ball is kicked!! win, lose or draw come november...seems it still won't be good enough for some of you!! stop been so pessimistic and get behind them!!