2010 before last night, Riley 25 appearances, 23 tries, 104 tackles; Briscoe T 23 appearances, 12 tries, 91 tackles; Fox 25 appearance, 12 tries, 134 tackles; Hall 23 appearances, 20 tries, 98 tackles.

According to those stats Hall & Riley should be on the plane...

good pass from tickle and poor read from atkins meant that riley had to come in for that scrambling, just watching the replay now.

Toas scored 25 tries in SL 1999 season so Chris has matched the actual SL record as well as exceeding the total try score

I don't think you can really argue who should be the England wingers based on stats, like you could perhaps with the prop position.

You probably could if they made 20 appearances, 60 tries, 400 tackles, 0 errors

Just saying that you really, if you wanted to, could you know

Ok

Why not?

Cheers!

Because if a team lacks centres and halves with the ability to get the ball to the wings they're not going to top the try charts no matter how good a finisher they are.

Plus stats don't tell you how good a player is dealing with bombs, grubbers and cross field kicks, amongst other things for wingers.

Ah. So you don't think Riley deserves an international chance then?

I am very happy with his contribution to the team this year, but I wouldn't pick him as a first choice winger for England, maybe in the squad as back up though.

Riley's development under Smith has been a pleasure to watch.