Basically it's a case of who has scored the most tries recently or had a few good games this season or who is flavour of the month,rather than the best players, you could do one of these every month and half the people will have forgotten who they picked a month ago.
It was only a couple of months back that half the team would have been Wakefield and Widnes players, led by Brown and Mellor for instance, yet none of these are "good enough" anymore

Tomkins
Hall
Currie
Watkins
Solomona (if true that he's eligible, otherwise probably McGillvary)
Hodkinson (if he's eligible, otherwise Sneyd)
Gale
Graham
Hodgson
Hill
S.Burgess
Whitehead
O'Loughlin

Roby
Taylor
G.Burgess
Bateman

Personally I wouldn't pick O'Loughlin but it's pointless pretending he isn't gonna be in the side. That leaves S.Burgess, Bateman, Whithead and Currie fighting for three spots in the back row and to be honest I'd quite like to pick all of them. I don't really like picking back rowers in the centres but with the real lack of any quality centres I think it could be the least bad option to go with Currie in there and at least you'd know you had a player who is definitely international class on the field (could easily go with Bateman in the centres instead like the NZ series).

The pack looks fantastic on paper though, fingers crossed it translates onto grass.

If he picks those two overseas players, particularly when we ha e some decent options on those positions I won't be attending any games.

I thought the farce of picking overseas players was over.

Spot on. I think you could make an argument for both Leeds wingers given both their finishing and their excellent work rate bringing the ball back.
Whilst Segeyaro has obviously had a big impact on Leeds, getting both Hall and Briscoe back fit has been a big boost for Leeds too.

Cooper has been as solid as ever this year. He's almost the last player you can blame for the Dragons being awful. Sadly Widdopp is one of the main reasons they can't score.

I bet they wouldn't.

Joel Moon could play for England on residency. Could be a good option at centre, a position where we are weak.

Tomkins
McGilvary
Cudjoe
Watkins
Widdop
Sneyd
Graham
Hodgson
Hill
Whitehead
S Burgess
O'Loughlin

Clark
G Burgess / Taylor
Walmsley
Currie

I wouldn't mind giving Denney Solomona a game if he was available.

Widdop at full-back is not a bad shout; I wouldn't want him in the halves.

Can't believe the claims for Hodkinson. Quite apart from the fact that he an Aussie,

, he is bang average anyway.

Agree, Hodkinson/Widdop would quite literally be my worst nightmare. Our only hope then would be to bore the Aussies into submission.

We'd probably convert all our goals between them, just not sure we'd score many tries for that opportunity.

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Tomkins over Shaul (even though I'm a Hull fan), due to his ability ball in hand. I'd probably have Ratchford in the squad too.

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Gutted for Manfredi, he'd have been my first pick. Hall & McGilvray probably. Johnstone or Briscoe in the squad.

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Watkins is pretty much a certainty. The second spot it anyone's guess. Maybe Percival or Atkins.

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Sneyd and Gale (Williams in the squad)
Who else is there? Matty Smith doesn't bring anything extra that these guys don't. Widdop - really not impressed with him.

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Hill and Graham are dead certs.
Probably need 5 or 6 in the squad, so the rest to come from; Taylor, George Burgess, Cooper, Walmsley, Watts, (Tom Burgess?).

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Some serious talent in this position. Hodgson and Roby will be in there.
A spot in the squad for either Houghton or Clark.

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All in the squad: Currie, Bateman, Whitehead, Sam Burgess

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O'Loughlin, Westerman in the squad? May be tempted to throw in JJB purely for sheer work rate down the middle to spell the other guys.