Crabtree will be found out by Oz and the Kiwis.
Australia would be licking their lips in anticipation if he gets on the field.
He will be more of a liability than an asset trust me.

hes a liability at super league level. but people have been so obsessed with him playing for england since he broke through, just because hes tall

Briscoe
Fox
Ellis
Smith
Hall
Tomkins
Eastmond
Morley
Roby
Graham
Peacock
Burgess
Sinfield

Westwood
McGuire
Carvell
Wilkin? Is he in the squad?

The problem that England have is that we dont have enough quality players that are international class, the years when we had Schofield, Lydon, Robinson, Offiah, Newlove etc in our backlines and then you look at last nights backline, to be honest none of them could touch any of the aforementioned, and the likes of Shenton, T Briscoe and Smith are they international class? They certainly dont send shivers down Aussie spines, unlike the Aussie backline that looks on paper to be really frightening and there missing Folau.

Shenton looked out of his depth last night.

As for Sinfield, the guy is a waste of space at International level, we just carry him for his kicking.

As for McGuire, he shouldnt be included based on last nights performance, he is a support player at best, ok his kicking game isnt bad, but he isnt International class and never will be. It's a joke that Burrow isnt in the squad, yet McGuire is.

The lack of depth in England is a real worry.
Not only the backs
Peacock and Morley are past their best, Roby is getting worse where is the depth pushing through?

How biased are you?

Eastmond is untested at fullback and you want him to take on Australia?

No tomkins, anywhere? Not even on the bench? Are you mad?

Roby playing 80 mins? WESTWOOD????

I'm glad you're not picking the team.

1. Smith
2. Briscoe
3. Eastmond
4. Shenton
5. Hall
6. Tomkins
7. Myler
8. Morley
9. Moore
10. Graham
11. Peacock
12. Burgess
13. Sinfield

14. Roby
15. Ellis
16. Carvell
17. Crabtree

Agree, my previous post has Smith at fb.

I though we needed to get Eastman into the team somewhere though so put him right centre. He has an x factor that i think could just win us a game. Thats why ive replaced Mcguire with Tomkins too. Very young backline but i thought we were using this tournament for that reason.

Smith
Fox
Ellis
Westwood
Hall
Tomkins
Eastmond
Morley
Roby
Peacock
Burgess
Wilkin
Sinfield

Graham
Carvell
Crabtree
Shenton

Bit of contoversy in the centres but both Westwood and Ellis started out in the centres and both are very strong defensively. I would only use these two there against the aussies. Got Shenton on the bench if Westwood needs to revert back to the pack as out of the two I believe Ellis would make the conversion back to his old position a little easier. Gone for a big bench and picked Sinfield because basically there isnt anyone else and he cam kick goals. Don't think Myler is up to it and bothe Eastmond and Tomkins are fearless, have a lot of creativity and both can defend. Doubt Smith will go with anything like this line up but we need to mix it up a bit. We're weak as p155 in the three quarters, Senior showed us this year when he ripped Atkins and Shenton to pieces when he came up against them in Super League.

for me its damage limitation against aus and the only side I could see doing that would be as follows;

1. Briscoe
2. Fox
3. Ellis
4. Smith
5. Hall
6. Sinfield
7. Tomkins
8. Graham
9. Roby
10. Morley
11. Peacock
12. Burgess
13. Wilkin
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14. Eastmond
15. Carvell
16. Crabtree
17. Myler

Briscoe has to play FB, what he lacks in attack he makes up fo by being in teh right spot to pick up kicks and as a last line of defence (which we will need big time!).

Eastmond looked good but hard to say what his best position is.

On that performace were fricked whoever we pick!