I can't recall the last time a prop forward was signed of his quality and instantly produced top class performances week in week out. I can't recall a bad game all season from him.

There's playing big minutes and then there is being effective still for big minutes. Thompson was fantastic from minute 1 to minute what 60 when he was brought off? Brilliant.

We are stacked in the front row department but Thompson is a cut above them all in my opinion. A shoe in for England.

Tbh if you look at the backs from that time, they weren't [iawful[/i. In the 2003 Ashes we had Radlinski, Carney, Connolly/Gleeson, Senior/Gilmour, Scully and Long/Deacon in the backs. Richard Horne on the wing was the obvious glaring anomaly Other than Carney, we didn't have a single decent British winger around then. Unless you count Mark Calderwood but I doubt anyone does.

The other glaring anomaly was the coach - David Waite was absolutely useless. Anyone even slightly competent would've got us at least 1 win in that series.

I am not totally anti Hill. I wanted Wigan to sign him when he left Warrington and some Saints fans wanted to sign him for this coming season.

However I do think Mulhern has been really good for Leigh for the past two years and would have been my choice for this series.

Yes. Apparently he woke up Sunday morning with a mouth injury due to excessive smiling Saturday evening.

Yeah agree, surprised mulhern hasn't been picked.


I thought hill would be as much about culture as playing ability and wane has said something about loyalty and hill playing on while injured in the past.

Wane will stick with players who have done it for him in the past.

I was surprised Mulhern didn't get called up too.