Carvell - 7.46

Marker tackles are included in the number of tackles made if I'm not mistaken. I still maintain that if England need a workhorse then Graham and Lynch would be ahead of Peacock. He just doesn't seem to make that impact.

His metres are impressive, but if you had Graham and Peacock in the same team they probably wouldn't be making the same number of metres and carries because the workload would be shared.

If you look at someone like Carvell, just because he doesn't average as many metres per game doesn't mean he isn't as good. He's not used in that sort of role but it doesn't mean he isn't capable, it just means he's best playing in a different sort of way.

England have lots of props who can run round and make over 100 metres and over 30 tackles if they have to (Lee Mossop can do that if need be) but what the team needs is a dominant forward who can cause problems. So far I'd say Carvell looks a better bet than Peacock, as do a few other forwards.

Yeah you make fair points. My opinion is as was earlier in the thread mossop looks the business I would like to see him given a go. No point for me keeping going with Moz and JP! Graham, Ellis, lockers, roby, sinfield maybe hock can be the senior heads

Meters per carry means nowt! It's what you do in a game.

Very much so. As an example, the prop on the side being kicked off to (most teams kick off to the same side every time during a game) will naturally make more metres than the one on the other side, because he's got 10 or 20 metres to run before contact.