Both Widdop and Chase will play 6 in this game and Sinfield will move to 9 and 13.

Its a friendly, McNamara will be trying out options before the first game. That's why Widdop has been named on the bench.

Well done to Briscoe and Yeamo. Fully deserved and glad they got their recognition.

Once Chase was in the squad it was inevitable he would play, so I'm over it. I don't support it, but I'm over it.

Think the team looks pretty good. Would like to have seen Widdop start, but I expect him to play a big role anyway.

pretty much agree on all counts except some refinement on the dummy runner rule and their engagement with the oppostion because often they're not interferring at all just confusing the defence.

Is that the best you can come up with?



It seems that when god was handing out brains Paul M thought he said trains and asked for a slow one.

Reed and Hall both play left too.

Watch oursplay on the right, or even be split up

Looks a strong side apart from the ridiculous bench and Sinfield at SO FFS !!!

I think it looks a pretty good side on paper and i reckon if the coach sticks with yeamo and brisc on the left for the tourney they could do a decent job and do some damage down that side....but i am bias

that's what happens when a coach picks a nice balanced team of 2 left wingers and 2 left centres in a threequarter line!

Reeds played a few games on the right this season, probably more than Yeamans done in his full career.

Macmanara would have to be a idiot to split them up or move them.

Well done to both on making the line up and I hope they both have good games!

Firstly I think it's Heighington's Father, not Mother. Secondly, he's played City/Country and for the Prime Minister's XIII, so it's clear that his first choice was that he wanted to play for Aus. Thirdly, has he even been to this country before?

Heighington's inclusion is every bit as wrong as Chase and Fa'asavalu before them IMO.

The thing with the likes of Brough/Carvell/the Horne brothers etc. though, is that the stupidity was them playing for the nations other than England as a way to pretend that there was a wider international game. They all kept GB allegiance for the games that counted, so the home nations teams were essentially viewed by players like NSW/Queensland, as a way to press your claims for an international shirt. They therefore did what they had to to put themselves in the shop window. It wasn't their fault that the RFL then pulled the rug from under them with the ridiculous decision to ditch the GB format, and they all found themselves possibly looking like being left out of contention for what is essentially still the GB team under a different name.