I still truly believe that the Kangaroos arn't going to win this.

We do lose a game in most tournament's

Shame the last one was in the final.

Cough, cough, choke, choke.

I went to a NSW Cup game last month, it's not a great standard of RL, whatever any ockers may say its closer to Championship standard than SL.

People will understimate the quality of british RL players, despite the dominance at club level for some years in the WCC

Some people will understimate our ability at international level, despite being able to regularly beat the current World Champions in tests.

Some people think there is no point us even getting on the plane down under.

Never seen any NSW/QLd cup games but i have seen some squad lists and there are players that are familiar names from NL/fringe SL players so i expected the standard to be around what you said to be honest. I would assume that Toyota cup/u20s/2nd grade to be a better standard than NSW cup and a good springboard to NRL. Is this the case?

He's Scottish again, apparently

One of the issues I have with this England squad is Widdop. Picking him is like being at Primary school when all the boys in the class get twitchy about all the girls who are in a huddle in the corner of the room or playground whispering and looking over. The boys' tactic is then to grab the smallest, most effeminate boy who spends all his time with the girls and grip him until he tells them what the girls have been saying.

Did you ever say anything?

Most players are better defensively than McGuire but Burrows defence cant be questioned.

He wont be in the squad because he isnt good enough not because his defence is weak.

The problem is we can just about scrape a competitive 13 but after that the squad struggles. Aussies have far more strength in depth and it always depends on which kiwi team turns up to how good or bad they're going to be. The lack of strength in depth in our league of top class English players is evident when the same players get picked time after time with no recognised replacements behind them. Aussies could pick nearly 3 players for each position and would still be competitive. Can't be said the same for us.

But Macca's inability to coach top class players and in some cases ruin potential in players is a worry. We were never consistently good against the aussies as GB so how in gods name do we think we can do it as England?