I thought someone was taking the mickey with the name of the thread, an exciting 22? surely its the same old same old and will get hammered when the real business starts at the end of the season

Morely, Carvell are too old and slow now, Crabtree doesn't run his weight. I'd rather see Mason LMS and Griffen play. Let some of the younger fowards have a run and see if they step up their game. Or maybe we don't have any young forwards.....

Morley and Carvell may be older but their still playing great rugby.

Maybe biased, but Yeaman has to be the form centre at the moment, but why am I surprised!

So much for picking form players, same old same old from the England coach, I thought Yeaman was nailled on to get a recall and Welham would at least be in the squad. McGilvaray deserved a shot as well.
Next time he should say its picked on form as long as you play for Leeds, Saints, Wigan or Wire.

Let's be honest Wire are playing some great rugby, McNamara might won't his centres to move the ball and have good defence

Why do people keep mentioning you need to play for Wigan to be picked? We have 3 players in there, 2 of which are undoubtedly first choice and the 3rd who was picked in the last few squads.

I'm suprised Yeaman isn't in there, Atkins isn't a good player. Bridge should definately be one centre, probably Shenton will be the other for consistency.

I thought Lee Mossop should be in there, definately done more than Jamie Peacock this year, think Liam Farrell is also very unlucky as there's no way JJB is a better player.

Likewise with Danny Tickle, been a much better player then JJB this season.

and so had welham mate!, if picked on form they are the two stand out centres so far in SL
surprised at Macca not picking them TBH

jamie jones, how the hell is he in there surely players like farrell,tickle and whitehead are above him in the pecking order.

plus a few others too

The exclusion of Yeamo and Welham is puzzling to say the least. They have, between them scored 30 trys this year already and thats playing for teams that have both disappointed and under performed this year so far. Both have proved this season that they are in International form IMO.

If Yeaman can't get in now then he never will - it's obvious that McNamara doesn't fancy him even though he's a far better option than either Ryan Atkins or Michael Shenton. It's all inconsequential anyway because when the real stuff comes around in the Autumn we'll never beat the Aussies or the Kiwis - simple as, simple is

shocked that yeaman not got picked what u gotta do to get selected....

Catch the ball. Pass the ball.