How many of this seasons players are playing in the World Cup ? Barthau, Api, Evans, Rocqica, Grant, Dragon, Channing, Kear, Bouzeba, Helliwell, Offerdahl Any more? Would be easier to name those not in it !

Let's hope that time away with their respective countries gives them the chance to continue their development and that they come back fired up and ready for what could well be the most important season in the clubs history.

And even more important for us....return injury free....

....and maybe with a big gnarly PI Prop in the excess baggage?

Can't see England doing very well with that squad

Wales squad: Courtney Davies, Steve Parry (both Gloucestershire All Golds), Chester Butler (Halifax), Danny Ansell (Hunslet), Sam Hopkins (Leigh Centurions), Michael Channing, Ben Evans, Dalton Grant, Elliot Kear, Rhys Williams (all London Broncos), Joe Burke (Oldham), Gavin Bennion, (Rochdale Hornets), Matty Barron (Newcastle Thunder), Craig Kopczak (Salford Red Devils), Matty Fozard (Sheffield Eagles), Andrew Gay, Christiaan Roets (both South Wales Ironmen), Regan Grace, Morgan Knowles, Ben Morris (all St Helens), Rhodri Lloyd (Swinton Lions), Josh Ralph (Tweed Head Seagulls), Phil Joseph (Workington Town), Matty Seamark (Wynnum Manly Seagulls).


We are the best represented club in the Wales squad.

And with Walker in the Scotland squad , that is twelve Broncos from this season

Then you can add the ex Broncos to the list as well. Gale, McMeekan, LMS, Lueluai, Thomas, Keyes.

If you picked a London side from all those who have played for London in this World Cup, it would probably make the semis !

Had the pleasure of being at the Welsh World Cup Dinner last week; great to speak to our players there. Interestingly, outside of PNG, Wales has the most native born players in the comp!

USA has picked 13, whilst I believe there are 9 or possibly 10 Welsh Born players in their squad......

Both the welsh and American squads are a tribute to what can be achieved, whilst Samoa (4), Lebanon (1), Ireland (6), Scotland (0), Italy (2), Fiji (6) and Tonga (2) just devalue the competition in my eyes by literally being either ANZAC B sides or England B with little or no benefit to these countries domestic set ups.

Only problem is dog without having them in, reality is there is no comp.
Have to agree with you though, in the eyes of the rest of the sporting world it's a little bit of a joke and can see why!
Saying that, some of the best games I have watched during the last 2 world cups were the smaller nation games, notably the USA game down at Bristol.

I reckon group B will be an epic series of games this year and whilst eyes are on Tonga, Scotland don't look too shabby either.......and I agree, without the heritage sides there's no world cup, but I really don't think that it helps the game in those countries....Fiji are 2 time semi-finalists and yet they've just been knocked back by the NSW cup again.....the Aussies (like the RFL) can't see past their own garden gate sometimes....

I wish all our players at the World Cup good luck. I hope they all come back un injured.
Let us hope Dalton Grant gets a good run out to set him up for next season.

Strewth dog, there is something we agree on!

There is plenty we agree on......I just need to work on my delivery

Showing by London Broncos players so far, only one that really stood out for me is Evans,! Api did very little for Ireland, Rhys Williams solid enough for Wales, kear ok channing worked hard.
As for ex players thought LMS had a pretty good stint.

There is a very good picture of Api in todays Daily Telegraph Sports Section.

All the best players are gravitating to Aus, why wouldn't they?, even England has 7 ozzie based players ! I have no problem with heritage players as long as it used to build in the home country. What the Lebanese have done is incredible considering their domestic situation. Even the USA are building domestically. My problem is with Scotland, who have no domestic league, a pure sham.

Well the lure of players going to aus is nothing new, remember the days when you had that first couple of months of the winter season without your star players because they had spent the summer playing in aus.
No complaints about playing too many games in those days as a lot of players were playing all year

No Barthau for the French.

They played really well last week against Lebanon - it was 18 all with 8 minutes to go. Perhaps the last minute try for Lebanon when William kicked the ball across the field from within his own 20 was his undoing! There's playing catch up and playing catch up. He has been known to have attitude issues that can result in plays like that, but then again perhaps he's just injured.