The Burgess brothers are very good rugby players. Tom and Luke are easily holding their own in the toughest rugby league competition on the planet and Sam and George are world class. It would seem that some RLFans would prefer these four were not in our game, I am certainly not one of them. Whatever the media attention in Sydney, they are a million miles from household names in their native country and if I was at the RFL or RLWC I would be all over them as the face(s) of the game

Followed by a Burgii family media gathering in the centre of the pitch where Julie screams "WE JUST LOVE AUSTRAAYYYLIAAA".

On one thread you say you dont want England to go back to same old failed players of the 2008 debacle, and when it looks like we have two World Class players to pit against the aussies you knock them down!

Well of course McNamara is going to put a lot of his eggs in the Burgess basket,because Barring Tomkins,who else is there!

Most sane people will understand it will take something very special for us to win this WC but we do have a side that can compete and probably at best make the final but the Burgess brothers will be integral to wether we do that or not.

We dont have players of the calibre of say Greg Inglis....oh yes he plays for Souths,where was he today??

Hearing that Souths have lost has made my afternoon!

The whole family will be there to collect their citizenship papers

Julie, Sam, George, Bo, Luke, Uncle Jesse, Daisy, Boss Hogg and that odd one who drives the tow truck - whatever his name was.

William, how does it feel to have a stalker?

Just watched the Souths Manly semi so thought I would clear up some of inaccuracies posted on this thread

As he has been all season, Sam Burgess was one of the most dominant forwards on the pitch – he played the full 80 minutes, his work-rate was immense and his defence brutal. He knocked on trying to ground the ball after taking 3 defenders over the line, that may go into the mistake category but it’s a bit harsh as the grounding was very difficult

George and Luke played 48 and 40 minutes respectively. George as usual added a lot of go forward off the bench and left a lot of defenders on the ground. I thought his late effort was a try also

Luke was solid if unspectacular but as good as the other props on the field

One of the posters earlier in the thread said that a George Burgess knock on led to a Manly try – it was actually a Luke Burgess knock on after a ridiculous off load from Bryson Goodwin whose mistake it was

There were a few players in Souths colours who didn’t play as well as they could have, Isaac Luke for example made two mistakes from the base of the scrum (knock on and forward pass) and also knocked on at the play the ball two metres from the Manly line when Souths were 14-8 up just before half time

The Manly comeback was great from 14-0 behind and they deserve all the credit but none of the blame for the Souths defeat lay with the Burgess boys, and in particular not Sam

Here's hoping Sam and George get a couple of weeks rest and come out firing for England

George Burgess is in his first full season of NRL and is still a very inexperienced player. He's had a very good season. He's had a lot of press this year but knocking him strikes me as a stereotypical British over reaction.

Gutted that Souths aren't in the final tbh. I was really hoping they would win their league so that we could see Sam and his brothers line up against some SL opposition.

Ah well, there's always next year. Hopefully the Roosters win it now so that we can see the likes of SBW, JWH and Jennings tear through our champions instead

you're falling into the classic rlfans trap of letting good and correct facts get in the way of folk who post on here with a preconceived agenda

Got to hand it to William Eve, he gets a hell of a lot of bites on here from his trolling.

Amazing he's not been banned really, as we can see from just this thread, when presented with stats that rubbish his ramblings, he goes into hiding.

Good to see he's got a little sidekick too. Every baddie needs a sidekick.

willy's small boy?

George has just picked up the award for Rookie of the Year at the Dally M awards

Well done indeed to George, he joins some pretty impressive names as Rookie of the year including the likes of Steve Menzies, Mat Rogers, Braith Anasta, Karmichael Hunt, Jarryd Hayne, Israel Folau, Daly Cherry-Evans and Adam Reynolds