England are down to only 20 available players now with no Tomkins, Clark, O’Loughlin out injured and George Burgess suspended.

Sadly it'll probably be Reece that misses out!

TBH I will feel happier going to ER Sunday knowing we are not losing a player to injury at start of next season, waitng on DF is enough to worry about.

Why has Fifita not fully recovered from his operation yet? I'd imagine with about 3 months to go he'll be good to go will big Dave.

Correct, the only player who is not injured or suspended and deemed not good enough for the 19 man squad, by the great Wayne Bennett, is Tom Johnstone.

Such a sad little man.

but you would love to have him replace Hall who's left the mighty Whinos, can't wait to see what dross you replace him with

I can't see him playing though to be honest Gildart didn't have a great game last time.
I'd love to see him get a run

Totally agree and I think Percival will be in front of Lyne anyway.

You have to feel for Johnstone not getting at least one teat against The Kiwis.
I know that Makinson has made it impossible for Bennett to drop/ rest him but, what more could Johnstone have done.

A hat trick on debut and would have been more but for the Saints centre on his inside not actually passing him the ball all game.

Let's hope that he continues ripping it up for Trin and gets a shot next season.

He came back early to have a clean up op, to rectify a small issue from the op late season.
I think it was in a piece on the shirt launch, but can't find it now.

There's two wingers in the team though!

On The Full 80 Minutes this week Fifita said he had another operation a few days earlier as the previous surgery hadn't fully solved the problem. He said he would be fit for the start of the season.

Cheers to both for filling me in.

Indeed there are but, McGilvery's position looks set in stone for the time being.