No I dismissed that you stated Percival is better because he runs a "natural centres line".

Fwiw, I wouldn't pick Manfredi, he's a right sided winger anyway which is Hall's place. I would maybe pick Burgess solely because no one on the NZ would catch him. He has improved a lot under the high ball and all earlier season mistakes have all but gone.

Hardaker
Makinson
Watkins
Sarginson
Hall
Tomkins
Widdop
G burgess
Roby
Graham
Ferres
Bateman
Cuthbertson

Clark/hodgson
T burgess
Walmsley
Whitehead

I'd disagree with that.

Warrington aren't going well but that's not down to Hill. His performances are consistently good. In a poor side so far, he's still averaging 100+m a game, 7 a carry, high tackle rates and barely any errors. He was the best prop on the field at Saints when we beat them and he has been pretty much every time I've seen Warrington. Only Peacock and Walmsley as props have made more metres. He's just a damn fine prop forward, wasted in a Warrington shirt in my view.

Then, you add on his previous high level performances, both at club and international level. He's one of the first names on the sheet for England. Comfortably in the best props we have. He's another whom if he were in the NRL would be worshipped.

Didn't argue with any of it though, did you ? Deep down, you know it's the truth.

I wouldn't pick Manfredi because we have better wingers. Simple as that. Hall, Briscoe, Burgess, Charnley, Makinson, Lineham etc. I'd pick all of those before Manfredi.

I think Manfredi is already better and a more all round winger than Charnley and Makinson.

On current form he's better than most of them. Have a look at his try scoring ratio seeing as you like using that also

We are playing New Zealand and if we are to have any chance we have to pick players that are big, skillful, aggressive to the point of being abrasive. The Kiwis are massive and aggressive and with Shaun Johnson are lethal. We have to match them and beat them.

S Tomkins,
Burgess, Watkins, Sarginson, Hall,
Widdop, Smith,
Graham, McIlorum, G Burgess,
Westwood, J Tomkins,
O'Loughlin. Bench. T Burgess, Walmsley, Hill, Roby.
I've gone for Sam T as he's the best fb we have.
Burgess, Watkins and Sarginson are fast, big and skillful. Hall is always excellent for England.
Experience at half back.
I'd want a big, powerful and skillful pack. The bench reflects this too.

Tbf try scoring record isnt all that important imo, certainly not when your career is still in its infancy. Callum Lancaster has played 6 games and scored 9 tries in a team that doesnt know what attack is. On try scoring ratio alone he would be the first name on the team sheet, but in reality he barely scrapes into the top 20 England wingers atm.

if he played for wigan or leeds he would have been mentioned.

Awwww. Somebody mention a Huddersfield player just to keep meast happy

Why? Don't think any of our players deserve to be called up

Cheer up, Scotland will need some filler players next world cup.