best young player in the UK, absolutely tailor made for the NRL that kid!!!

Excellent prospect...think hed do well in aussie aswell.

i would of rather had gaskell then myler at 7 saying that gaskell and lomax look a great partnership att saints could of been an chance for them to play last night?

But where would we play Sinfield?

are you been serious ? , sinfield is not an halfback good player to have in the squad with his experience and versitility but woundt get in the 17 for me.

hey sheldon dont mean to troll (lie), or change subject but are you still in sydney as i just spent 2 years in bilgola on the northern beaches, where do you live? by the way i was supporting the exiles as we had morro in!

To be fair i think you are correct too, young Gaskell and Lomax look the real future of GB at present and still so young but both definately worth a run , these kids nowadays are so full of confidence they are ready almost immediately they play for their clubs.... Like the young kid on the wing at saints too..

So many issues to deal with for GB last night Steve mac has weeks of work based on last night
1, almost championship play the ball speed.
2, no recognised specialist stand off, cant keep playing loose men there .
3, extremely ageing front row options in Morley and Peacock IMO that needs addressing after this coming comp.
4, Tompkins kept runnig across his own team thuis removing all options for team mates leaving them all stranded.
5, tompkins only joined the line twice all night which is about 50 times less than he usually does for wigan , big issue there
6, centres looked very weak indeed, no speed or guille to break down the op, and will get creamed week in week out by the aussie lads as we all know..
7, Myler was non existent for much of the game and was very clearly rabbit in headlights for most .

Plus points
1, Robinson looked class but lonely
2, Westwood was best man on the park IMO and is a true warrior to build a pack around with JG who run his blood to water
3, Joel is outstanding and should IMO run in the centres for GB along with laddo from quins giving GB size, speed and grit for a change both in attack and defence .
4, wings looked good
5,in defence tompkins at FB was solid

but again nothing that Aus or Kiwis will be worried about

foster i feel is overrated and are better wing prospects in briscoe,mcgilvary,charnely ect, the play the ball was deffo slowed down by both sides but i will credit the ref as he reffed that as though it was a proper test match/nrl standard game. to be fair to tomkins he always drags across the pitch but its upto the rest of the team to recognise this and play of that and as for joining the line that comes down to the halfabcks setting up attacking play which in myler and sinfield you may aswell just put crabtree and morley there. centres is a massive issue for me lots of good centres like shenton,atkins,bridge,yeamen,cudjoe and welham but theres not 2 players there that stand out been absoulote quality and dead cert picks.myler plays of the back of other players like he does at wire briers and monaghan support play ect but been asked to lead a side he will struggle and with sinfield at 6 who isnt a 6 both players just looked very very lost. as for the posistives all those you mentioned are spot on, even hall is good and i do rate him micgilvary should of been in for him more athletic and offers more i feel but not a major problem.
great concept hopefully a 2,3 game series next year provides england with a quality match and highlights where we need to improve where as if we played france last night and won by 50 with myler and sinfield as halfbacks then we woudnt really know where to improve if you know what i mean

feel this is englands strongest teams
1.tomkins
2.mcgilvary
3.clubb
4.tomkins
5.briscoe
6.lomax
7.brough
8.graham
9.roby
10.peacock
11.ellis
12.westwood
13.oloughlin
subs
14.robinson
15.crabtree
16.burgess
17.morley

Macbanana sounds like he's got out of the wrong side of the bed .

I know whats his problem?

Must have had a wedge on Quins.

I got the impression that one of the Humberside team (Paul Parker?) had criticised the England team or the concept of the Exiles game before the interview with Mike White.

www.brisbanetimes.com.au/rugby-l ... 1g8lv.html Potentially another option for Mcbanana . Seen him play a couple of times now and he looks a great prospect .

www.brisbanetimes.com.au/rugby-l ... 1g8lv.html Potentially another option for Mcbanana . Seen him play a couple of times now and he looks a great prospect .

hopefully he will choose to play for his born country in england would give us more options in the centres for sure, another player who was born in england is ian henderson could he be an option ?