I grant there will always be a struggle if those countries are treated as being a loan facility for England.
My point is, if you qualify and play for a country, that should be that.

I agree, this is one aspect that football does better than our sport, it is a joke that players can just switch nationalities willie nilly, once you have played in a competatative match for a country then that should be the only country you can play for.

International rugby is a joke and will remain so until this problem is sorted.

Congratulations to Fergi fo getting in. He can only have been chosen on his form at Wakefield, though politics does seem to count.
It's a shame that out of 14 teams in Super League, the only ones not represented in the two elite teams are Wakefield, Crusaders and Catalan.
Crusaders and Catalan have good reasons, not being based in England. It's a shame for us that we have no one seen to be worthy (when for me Murphy certainly is better than many in the Knights team.
Lets hope he can stake a claim to be added through the season.

And to a comment above about his speed. He may look like a bow legged cart horse whe he runs but there is no question that he is fast. He always outpaces his opposite number (usually when chasing back rather than getting the ball in space. I'd say before Penny came he was fastest we had.

All 3 have plenty of ability but when they are bad, Ferguson, Ferres and Brough are about as bad as it gets.

garbage, brough at his worst has more chance of pulling a close game off than any half back we have at the club now.

Yes, Brough's only problem, when he played for Trinity, is he occasionally went missing in games, but very rarely had bad games.

Brough did occasionally go missing but if anyone can tell me a half back that doesn't occasionally go missing i would be very surprised.

BJ. He never goes missing, we always know where to find him - doing naff all at the back......JOKE before i get shot down

Would love to see an England team run out that contains the likes of Brough, Atkins, Ferguson, Ellis, Mason & Westwood!

Being more realistic, I think Broughy would make a huge difference to the England team, his kicking game alone would make us more competitive against the big two.

God help the National side if Mason is the standard. The rest, OK.

He's got that aggression in him aswell that other England halfbacks appear to lack.

We used to have the same problem with our players years ago - would always get overlooked for International selection because they played for an unfashionable club .........how quickly things change, he hasn't even made our 1st team yet and he's been chosen !!

Good luck fergie.cracking lad.just got caught up at a bad time for the club.his grandad still travels to wacky games,top bloke swell.as for Murphy,loyalty is very rare,always be respected by my family and myself.

To be fair (although I agree about McNamara), we will never win the four nations, because Australia and New Zealand are two of the four. Throw Wales into the mix at the end of this season, an England team finishing bottom of the pile is not unrealistic.