Clubb would never get an England call up if he played for any other club apart from ours.

What? Not even Bradford!

That must be a joke!!!!

sorry missed it

games played 22 v 27

The likes of Martin Gleeson, Ade Gardner and Paul Wellens have been proven beyond all doubt as being physically inferior to the Australian backline. In simple terms, they lack the pace and strength to compete at the highest level and their technical ability and positional play cannot disguise this fact. There is no point throwing them in again.

England have lacked a competitive centre for many years. Tony Clubb is deceptively fast - I have seen him go the length of the field in 2009 at Wigan - and a very powerful centre who will be hard to combat. It is true he attempts a large number of tackles but so would you if you were alongside a wing partner who was a rookie with limited tackling technique.

Put bluntly if your wing partner was conceding three to five tries a game, which O'Callaghan was at the start of the season, you would go in yourself. You might miss a few. But defending v 1 man is possible and v 2 isn't on your own.

Congratulations to Tony, he is an England International, rather than an Internet chatroom warrior. I am proud of him despite the sneers from his unequals on here - unless they are at the top of their profession? I doubt it.

Heh, another supporter of the use of the most pathetic argument in existence. You and tim should be mates. I assume you won't be commenting on any rugby league matter in the future seeing as you aren't a professional player, therefore cannot offer an opinion on anything going on in the game?

Like many I initially raised an eyebrow at the news of Clubby's selection (mainly from defence concerns) but decently reasoned stuff like this and Tim's observation that we tend to miss the good things he does made me think again. He really is deceptively fast and lays on tries when it looks like the move has broken down. There are very few watch as closely and as astutely as Tim, as analytically as wire quin and as rationally as markrammond. They've convinced me. I'll be celebrating the selection with an altered perspective.

I don't think he's ideal for prop yet, maybe in 5 years time, it would be a waste of his physical talents to have him chugging up the middle. For me his ideal position is as a powerful running second-rower, who can run out wide, if he can develop his defence he can be a Chris Joynt like second-row, comfortable with ball in hand linking in with the centres, but also hoovering up the defensive work. We know he has that powerful running game, but that's not the way we play in the forwards, we're pedestrian and underpowered, Mac favoured grafters, but we never had any go forward or kicking game so they were always under the kosh in defence and starting the attack too far down the field.

Don't let these embarrassing, biased believists sway you. Make up your own opinions.

P.S you might be interested to know that Mark "Rational" Rammond proposed that the club move to Gillingham.

He is insane also

Who Clubby, Listy or Rammond?

In other news my local community game team the 2 times RLC Regional National Champions, Northampton Demons have been invited into the 2011 Carneigie Challange Cup Competition.

Sssshhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Surely by putting your own opinion into this statement makes it look like you are trying to 'sway' him by saying your own opinion, therefore being a hypocrite?