That's nothing but nasty.

Thankyou..I've had this with a fair few pals who follow the dark path . Only player who plays 80 in middle of park. Mainly 2nd and 3rd man in tackle so will always be top tackler proved even more so by his position in tackle charts after first season with injury.apparently he missed no tackles at magic but I counted at least 3?distribution is average at best compared to top hookers but his engine and heart are bigger than the man.his scoots are good and kicking better than most hookers. Great club man and his tackle on Currie will be remembered for a long time .is he better than Mcshane? For me yes.but better than Hodgson or Clark? No..

Lomax, why? Hall, Why? How do these 2 get in above Shaul and BJB?

Lomax I agree.Hall has been quality at international level same as Mcgillvary. Eden Scoring for fun and maybe his Australian jaunt has got his defense sorted?Shaul? Poor season so far.plenty of speed,average under high ball.suspect attitude but yes I'd take a punt on him above Lomax. Hardaker looks class apart in speed skill and size and defense.tbf look a bit weak at full back

Why is Johnny Lomax in the squad? He has played few games, and is about to be replaced by Ben Barba at St Helens.

*Jonathan & Benjamin

Ryan Hall consistently puts in top performances at international level. Hall, Graham, Hill and S.Burgess should go in the side pretty much regardless of whether they are in form at club level IMO, because we know they perform for England.

Shaul?

I'm a Hull fan and Shaul is nowhere near international level. He's had a poor year by his standards, and has zero creativity/handling ability.

Also, Hall has proven time and time again that he's a big game player on the International stage. Until he has a bad game for England it's his shirt to lose.

Yep, it gets boring making this point to those advocating the latest form horse as a better option but i still fail to see anyone in SL right now who could be trusted to do a better job at that level, The guy scores at the rate of a try a game and carries the ball back to great effect, what more do people want FFS?

I think the international game suits some players more than others. For example, Hall, Crabtree and Westwood all looked far better for England than they did for their clubs, whereas Watkins, Charnley and Sinfield looked worse. Possibly a size thing.

Strange balance to that squad. 25/27 players from just 5 SL clubs & 5 clubs with no representation at all, including 2 of the current top 4.

In contrast 13/16 NRL clubs were represented in Origin yesterday & in the last game it was all 16.

The phrasing is performance squad which is bizarre because you've got Eden and McShane no international experience but domestically performing well, yet you have Brown, Clark and Cooper who've all been e p, then there's Lomax, Currie, Bateman who've hardly if at all played this year.

To be fair, Origin is 34 players so you will have more of a spread of players.

But I do agree, there's certainly a favouritism towards certain clubs and has been for some time despite the poor performances and form of said players.

Wayne Bennett picked the squad. He's only been in charge 2 minutes.

yet last season DH outplayed the lot of them apart from hodgson and still wasn't picked. also if you are picking on form why are there so many warrington players in there?