Sorry for the clanger with the Scottish language, a friend once pointed out the unforgivable use of the title Scotch and said the only time that term should be used is when ordering one. Cheers.

So therefore the standard is dropping. It doesn't matter what the reason is, the quality of imports at the moment isn't great. To be fair though what do we want? We've always banged on about having a competition full of young English players and we have that at the minute. There are still a number of overseas players here but not on the scale of a few years back.

I suppose what we need is a balance. In an ideal world you'd probably want each team with about 15 homegrown players and 2 overseas superstars but like you say, the money isn't there to do that.

How ironic that we have all homegrown players in the dream team in world cup year ! Media driven hype !

If it is the case that the game has gone forward, give the dream team an England shirt and go out and play in the warm up game and lets see how they go !

I think that we do have some world class British players in Super League whose quality has improved generally, but the biggest issue is the lack of backbone that MacBanana and the RFL puppet masters have in picking them.
Same old same old, pick a foreigner 'cos he can shrieks of desperation, 'big names' on the sheet first who simply cannot be left off rather than picking players on form.
Don't hold much hope against the Aussies because of this, but if attitudes changed, who knows?

Il decide when iv seen them play Australia and New Zealand. Im going to edge my bets and predict that once again, people will be disappointed.

Funnily enough I feel if that "Scotsman" had placed his allegiance with England we would have a chance especially when you look at the pack we could put out.

The NRL based players along with Tomkins,Hall,Chase and a few other should mean England (if they can avoid injuries) have a really good chance of getting to the final

The likes of Hanley, Edwards, Gregory, Schofield, Offiah, Robinson, Farrell, Radlinski, Sculthorpe never won a World Cup and the current tripe is not better than them thats for sure.

So if this England squad lift the world cup that must mean this is the worst aussie team ever,yeah?

In the unlikely event that we win, yes, definitely!

ever? Not sure about that, but it would be the worst Kangaroos side in the modern era if England did win it.

There's more chance of Warrington winning the Grand Final than England winning the World Cup.