Quote: Albino Wolf 2 "And yet 3 of the woeful ones are in the current England squad......2 of the others ie Sims and Clark were I would suggest certainly better than woeful and the likes of Harrison Wilde King Philbin Dwyer Evans Laithwaite etc could never be accused of woefulness. Your case would be laughed out of court!!'"
I stand by the statement that the pack as a whole was poor during 2015. Presumably Tony Smith agrees with that view and that is the reason why he replaced 50% of it for 2016.
There are other threads on the forum which discuss whether or not Wilde, King, Philbin, Dwyer, Evans, Laithwaite could achieve the levels of performance for an elite Super League side 17. I think the consensus was that not one of them is yet at that level.