Had to give stains something as 5 years without a trophy was making them suicidal......

McNamara went to Huddersfield specifically to ask Danny to play for England. He then didn't pick him [apart from the Exiles match last year]. So what's the best half back in SL to do? Sit out the World Cup?

He didn't pick him at the end of last year because A he was carrying an injury and B his form wasn't good.

When Brough spat his dummy out no squad had been picked for the WC what Danny did was not even give McNmara the option of picking him. McNamara said he only wanted players that were 100% commited to playing for England, Brough clearly wasn't.

The squad is only named today. Had Brough not thrown his toys out of the pram earlier in the season, McNamara would no doubt have selected him in the squad today.

I think its good for our sport that Brough is playing for Scotland, just would of loved him playing in England squad for RLWC. If Great Britain came back McNamara still wouldn't of picked Brough! He loves his bromance with Chase too much who in my eyes is a joke selection for England. Well done Brough for MOS, wouldn't of complained if Peacock would of got it.

Hopefully McNamara's decision to pick Chase over Brough backfires, Brough has been the best HB in SL and has more right to be in the England squad.

Nothing apart from build and develop a top class facility in Langtree Park, which we fully own and are the main proprietors of, not having to share or play second fiddle to anybody else (how many other clubs can say they have a new & modern stadium which they own and dont share?). The youth development has been very good, the academy team were on fire at the start of the season, yet suffered with the injuries we had as a knock on effect of this was the likes of Swift, Walker, Greenwood, Hand, Richards, Thompson etc all having to play in the first team as cover. These guys have come in and not looked out of place in the first team (again another pat on the back for the youth coaches at the club).

Community partnerships with Rochdale and Whitehaven have been formed and highly successful, Rochdale becoming champions of their league led by one of Saints' coaches and using the LP facilities throughout the season. Other partnerships, including Liverpool wheelchair RL, Steve Prescott Foundation etc have allowed the club to expand its network in the local areas, whilst at the same time giving something back to the community and I think they have done an excellent job.

Also, lets not forget since the licensing era was introduced, Saints are the only club who have fulfilled all requirements they were set by the RFL of the group that were challenged to develop their stadiums, and havent entered financial difficulty in this time so all in all I think its a fair reward for the progress they have made as a club over the past few years

I'd prefer Chase & England to do well tbh, rather then hope they fail just so McNamara is proved wrong.

Well done Danny, well deserved

so you are anti-railing England?
pretty sad if so.

England's loss is Scotlands gain. Great half back pairing with him and Peter Wallace for the World Cup.

Brough SHOULD be playing for England, but he's not. Just another typical McBanana decision.

Hopefully? What an idiot.

Again it wasn't Mcnamaras decision, Brough made that decision 5 months ago.

Brough didnt ask to play for scotland.

scotland coach called him and asked if he would play for them seeing as he wasnt going to be picked for England. see below.



Much has been made of McNamara's decision to ignore the talents of arguably the best tactical kicker in the British game but Brough insists there is no ill feeling towards the national coach.

"He's picked his squad and I'm not in it," Brough said. "I've just got to bite the bullet and get on with my next job.

"I can't change his mind, I've just got to worry about myself and move forward with the Scotland team."

Brough is keen to point out that he did not hawk his wares around after being snubbed by England.

"They got in touch with me," he said. "I didn't ring them up.

"I think it would have been unfair if I had rung them and said 'I haven't got in the England squad, can I play for Scotland?' so I didn't do that.

"I waited for the call and I made my decision straight away that I would play for them."

The squad was announced around 2 hours ago, Brough maybe a good RL player but he's not psychic.

Brough threw his Teddys out if the pram .

McNamara said he wanted players that were 100% commited to playing for England Zbrough wasn't, if he had he should have said no to Scotland stating he wanted to prove to the Englsnd coach that he was worth a place in the WC squad, he didn't he spat his dummy because he didn't want to play 'second fiddle'