On another thread, someone made the case for doing away with all this lurpack/federation nonsence, and just having 5 non british players (in france this would obviously be french). As a means to inprove th GB set up (snd subsequently french)

This got me thinking

A. Very few teams could do this
B. It would dramatically reduce the level of Superleague in the short term so the powers that be would not allow it.

But What would your team be (and everyone is fit). The rules are simple, you can have as many overseas players as you want but you can only play 5 in any given game. Im counting BRITISH BORN/COME THROUGH THE ACADEMY players here so Hanson ( he was born here wasnt he?) would count Mary wouldnt.

1. Mathers (I know dodgy start)
2. Richards. (1)
3. Carmont (2)
4. Goulding
5. Pryce
6. Smith (3)
7. S.Tompkins
8. Fielden
9. Piggy (4)
10. Coley
11. Hanson
12. O'loughlin
13. J.Tompkins

Bench (from the rest of the squad but i only have one place left)
14. Feka (5)
15. Hock
16. Mclorum
17. O'carrol/Prescot on a rotation with coley.

18. Bailey.

I actually think that would be a stronger side than we will put out most weeks!

Hansen was born in Auckland.

I presume he meant BRITISH BORN or COME THROUGH THE ACADEMY the bold is what Hanson did

I'd be tempted to drop Coley and play Prescott from the start. Other than Mathers, it seems a strong team.

Key wor mate

We need some second phase rugby or we will get hammered

platt
sherriffe
sykes
nero(1)
tadulala (2)
jefferies (3)
deacon
burgess
newton
lynch
cook
menzies(4)
morrison(5)

scruton
worincy
godwin
langley

thatll be just about our first team with kopzcak, tupou, solomona, halley in reserves

Webb (1)
Donald(2)
Senior
Smith
Hall
McGuire
Burrow
Leuluai(3)
Diskin
Peacock
Jones-Buchanan
Ablett
Sinfield

Eastwood(4)
Buderus(5)
Kirke
Bailey

Ouch, thats good.

Wellens
Gardner
Gidley(1)
Gilmour
Armstrong(after tonight, excellent game)
Pryce
Long
Graham
Cunningham
Hargreaves
Wilkin
Clough
Flannery(2)

Roby
Fa'asavulu(don't think he counts has he played for GB)
Peluta(sp.)(3)
Cayless(4)

Wellens
Gardner
Gidley (1)
Gilmour
Meli (2)
Pryce
Long
Graham
Cunningham
Hargreaves
Puletua (3)
Wilkin
Flannary (4)

Roby
Cayless (4)
Clough
Fa'asavalu (5) ? GB international.

Then some great young British lads as squad players.

You appear to have miscounted

fa'savalu counts as homegrown anyway

Leeds and St Helens could do this very easily:

Webb (1)
Donald (2)
Smith
Senior
Donald
McGuire
Burrow
Leulaui (3)
Buderus (4)
Peacock
JJB
Ablett
Sinfield

Diskin
Lauitiiti (5)
Bailey
Burgess

As im sure bradford and other clubs could

All im saying with no relegation for the near future, why couldnt the rfl introduce this, it would not mean sacking anyone!

REARDON
RILEY
GLEESON
JOHNSON
PENNY
BRIDGE
BRIERS
CARVELL
HIGHAM
MORLEY
WESTWOOD
HARRISON
BLYTHE

CLARKE
RILEY
WOOD
PICKERSGILL

no foreigners at all, all sl players, so why do they rely on hicks, king, monas, rau, anderson, anderson they could get rid of all the imports and put up a better job.

bulls
platt, sherriffe, worrincy, crookes, halley, sykes, deacs,burgess, newton, lynch, cook,crossley, langley godwin, james, scruton, kopczak


not as good as wire all british squad with 3 props on bench but can also do it, just proves teams dont need any imports and they not stopping developement as much as most people make out.

Jones Bishop
Smith
Watkins
Gibson
Hall
McGuire
Burrow
Bailey
Diskin
Peacock
JJB
Ablett
Sinfield

McShane
Burgess
Kirke
Worall

The Hull team that played last night:

1. Byrne (1)
2. Calderwood
3. G Horne*
4. Yeaman*
5. Briscoe*
6. R Horne*
7. Thorman
8. Dowes
9. Berrigan (2)
10. Cusack (3)
11. Tickle
12. Burnett*
13. Radford*

14. Thackray
15. King*
16. Manu (4)
17. Washbrook*

Those asterisked are products of the Hull academy system.

1. Pat Richards (1)
2. Amos Roberts (2)
3. Darrel Goulding
4. Karl Pryce
5. Shaun Ainscough
6. Sam Tomkins
7. Tim Smith (3)
8. Stuart Fielden
9. Mark Riddell (4)
10. Eamon O'Carroll
11. Gareth Hock
12. Joel Tomkins
13. Sean O'Louhglin

14. Iafeta Palea'asenia (5)
15. Paul Prescott
16. Harrison Hansen
17. Mike McIllorum

and all english

1. Richard Mathers (oh dear!)
2. Shaun Ainscough
3. Darrell Goulding
4. Ian Thornley
5. Karl Pryce
6. Sean O'Loughlin
7. Sam Tomkins
8. Stuart Fielden
9. Mike McIllorum
10. Eamon O'Carroll
11. Gareth Hock
12. Lee Mossop
13. Joel Tomkins

14. Ben Davies
15. Paul Prescott
16. Chris Touson
17. Joe Mellor

Your all english team would get battered tho mostly academy kids, bulls would hold its own, wires all play regularly in sl, still wouldnt win owt tho.

I don't think it would. Yes most of them are young but the effort is always there in our academy. Plus with no relegation what do we have to lose?

Mc Goldrick (1)

Owen
Shenton
Evans (2)
Dixon*

Chase (3)
Sherwin (4)

Huggins
Hudson
Huby

Ferres
Westerman
Faumina (5)

Feather
Jones
Netherton
Boyle

Stupid thing about this regulation is that Dixon*although British is regarded as 'non -british' due to his junior career being in RU and not participating in any academy development until joining Hull FC

Riley will be busy.

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HALL
CALDERWOOD
G.HORNE
YEAMAN
RAYNOR /BRISCOE
R.HORNE
THORMAN
DOWES /MALONEY
HOUGHTON/LEE
THACKREY /KING
RADFORD /BURNETT
TICKLE
WASHBROOK/ WHITING
NOT BAD WITH NO FOREIGNERS.

Isnt he always, put lee mitchell on bench instead of him then, another sl player.