Goulding could make his debut if Hall doesnt recover from hamstring injury:

England: G Widdop (Melbourne); T Briscoe (Hull), M Shenton (Castleford), R Atkins (Warrington), D Goulding (Wigan) or R Hall (Leeds); K Brown (Huddersfield), S Tomkins (Wigan); J Graham (St Helens, capt), J Roby (St Helens), S Fielden (Wigan), G Ellis (Wests Tigers), S Burgess (South Sydney), S O'Loughlin (Wigan).

Subs (from): L Robinson (Huddersfield), D Griffin (Huddersfield), B Westwood (Warrington), J Tomkins (Wigan), E Crabtree (Huddersfield), L Cudjoe (Huddersfield).

That's the side I picked

Expect a 30+ point Kiwi win.

We're going to get spanked

Bang in a quality half to play alongside Tomkins and I would be much more confident. As it is I anticipate that it will be a close game. Personally I do think that the Kiwi's are all that hot upfront. Blair for me is much better in the backrow.

Call me an eternal optimist but I think we can do it.

By half time.

We've got no chance.

I agree, the pessimism surrounding England teams is ridiculous at times.

Yes I know it's based on experience, but we have competed with NZ well recently - even at the horrible World Cup we should have won the first game and could have nicked the second, despite being absolutely atrocious.

True enough, but it's been a while since we had a back line that inexperienced.

But it has also been a while since we had a back line with this much pace. I think we will do well on saturday and maybe win, hope daz plays, he thoroughly deserves it after this season.

The team has been named.
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That is quite a big pack, the backs is my concern though

Big error leaving out Crabtree IMO, can change a game

Congratulations to Darrell Goulding - how he has proved his critics wrong.

Surprised that Crabtree wasn't included. The Aussies/Kiwis seem to struggle to deal with him for some reason.

I wasn't too impressed with his seemingly random offloads at the weekend, combined with Griffin having a good game I can understand this move, even though I probably would have given Crabtree another shot while he was so good in the last four nations and they struggle a lot with his size.