www.internationalrugbyleague.net/apps/blog/ I fancy our chances against their pack!

www.internationalrugbyleague.net/apps/blog/ I fancy our chances against their pack!

They could put out a pack of

Scott
Smith
Gallen
Thaiday
Watmough
Stewart

Shillington
Galloway
Taylor
Farrar

With Lewis, Parker and Williams backing up.

Smiths probably my favourite player around, but other than Thaiday, Scott and Gallen i'm not overly frightened of the others. Really wish we had Sam Burgess.

Watmough and Stewart are in great form.

And that bench, if it got selected, is huge.

So what happens if either Inglis or Lawrence is injured? They go with either Boyd or Williams?

You can see why they tried talking Lyon out of retirement.

Lewis and Brett Stewart could cover there as well.

Inglis!!? thought he was out

There's a few with injury concerns.

How Tomkins/Roby/Lomax/Widdop play will be the key, we can ask a few questions here at last

Really looking forward to the 4Ns. Lockyer, Smith, Marshall, Thurston, Gallen, Tomkins, Roby, Moi Moi and more all on one pitch on the same day!

Get in!

"There's going to be some BIG News regarding England coming later this morning"

Where did you hear this Mark?

Not paticulary well though. This would suggest we've been quite lucky to bag reed.


It's strange move considering they've a lot of quality centres to go with 2 specialist, one of which is a doubt to even play.

It is a bit odd.

England RL official facebook page

Facebook. Could just be Wigan and Warrington players added to squad? But that wouldn't be BIG news.

Maybe more seats available for wembley?

Hmmm

I know what it is...Daly Cherry-Evans has jumped on the Kangaroos plane to save us some pennies and declare himself English when he lands!

remember when i was going on about jack reed...and how he's only got his chance in the NRL because theres a serious lack of 3/4 talent coming through in the NRL......


theres only 2 in the australia squad, chris Lawrence and greg Inglis...and you can count on your fingers the number of games they've played in the past few months cos they've both been injured

Kangaroos are unusually light on centres! Lucky for them Inglis has some time to recover from his injury. Lack of props too, Shillington had an average/poor year in Canberra but it look like they will go with this whole dynamic pack thing the Kiwis have done and NSW did in origin.

Five absolutely top class players in that squad in Darren Lockyer, Billy Slater, Cameron Smith, Johnathan Thurston and Greg Inglis (the latter has not had a great 2011 but still superb)

Other than that, I see some really good first grade players but also many who would not have got near Kangaroo squads of the past

greg inglis is'nt even fit and lockyer is a crack in the chops away from being ruled out of the 4nation

It'll only get worse looking at the ethnicity stats of the Toyota cup players - 75% poly.

Neilsen, hopate, Beale, copley, Fergusson, idris and Jennings isn't that bad. The thing is though, the majority there aren't world class like thy have in say the fb position. They Are even resorting to backrowers in the centres Scott, Taylor etc.

The good news for us is if they get injuries to top centres the depth of the squad starts to show.

Rangi Chase in England squad

You what?