Cant say I rate Cudjoe. In many ways he reminds me of Atkins in that he looks great against weaker teams and lesser centres but I have yet to see him play well in a big game or against a top team.

Could ratchford pay there, excellent player who s too good not to be in the 17.

Very good call and he's another I'd not give a thought to. I'm sold tbh, I'd pick him alongside Watkins in the centres.

If we pick another centre in the squad I'd go for Goulding.

This is England/GB all over though. It's not that I don't rate Ratchford but he's not an out and out centre. We need to play players who have played in that position with great regularity.

Centre is a long standing problem area for GB and the Aussies will target weaknesses ruthlessly so, in theory players who are used to playing centre will be, er, less weak there

I knew you'd say lightweight as that's an easy criticism to make, despite the fact he makes plenty of breaks and tackles above his weight. He's 20 years old. He'll build. Not that his size has caused much of a performance issue.

Last thing I'd want is for him is to bulk up to the point where he's so slow.

The more I think about the centres conundrum, the more I think Stefan Ratchford can do a job for us there.

Last time Shenton played, he did well against the Aussies - just saying.

And he's a left sided centre too....

I just watched Easts v Newcastle in the NRL playoffs and Jennings is awesome. He scored two top drawer tries. If he is paired with Inglis, whomsoever England pick will need to be at the absolute top of their game.

Jennings has done well this year with the change in Clubs.
He will partner Inglis bar injury.

Jennings is strong as well as being one of the fastest players in the game.

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I knew Jennings was good but my god not that good! Jennings and Inglis in the centres makes Australia even more formidable.

In Watkins though we have a genuine international class centre and i know people dont rate him on here but for me Atkins has everything to be a top class centre too.

martin gleeson???natural left side centre.

Cudjoe and Watkins are different styles of player. Watkins catches the eye with his breaks but is not so good at creating space for his winger, and his defence is questionable

Cudjoe makes more tackle busts and puts his winger into score more often, add to that his defence is massive and it makes for an excellent balance IMO

Anyone saying Cudjoe isn't international class is simply oblivious

Agree that Watkins defence needs work but I wouldn’t question his ability to put his winger away, some of his handling to get his man away is excellent

All shall be revealed during the World Cup.

Then we'll see how fantastic all these alleged bright young stars of Super League really are.

I remain hopeful the game in this country is able to avoid embarrassment on the international stage.

You mean like we have with all these great centres of yesteryear?