If he doesn't make it into the England squad for this game, I really don't think he'll ever pull on an England shirt as long as he wears a Wakefield one. His form this season has been above Makinson, McGillvary, and Hall. He's made fewer errors, given away less penalties, missed fewer tackles, made a greater average gain and scored more tries

Johnstone has 8 years on both Hall and McGillvary. That is a ludicrous statement.

Funnily enough Ben Jones Bishop beats TJ on most of those stats this year. Why is no one championing him for the game?

They are. His agent tweeted about it yesterday

Who's his agent Tricky?

Goes by show me the money on twitter, think he might be called Craig Harrison. Is agent for a few of our other players, Rocky and Big Dave for sure

Fair point

Bjb has been different bisto this year compared to Ryan hall.

See RWB post

Tom has been in Paris this weekend, photos on his Instagram.

I don't see the point in playing these games if your not gonna pick a team on form.

TJ
Adam Milner
Danny Richardson

Three young lads who ought to be blooded now, as they're dead certs to be in and around the side some the next world cup.

Bateman at centre again too it seems.....

Wayne Bennett obviously isn't clueless, but he does seem to have a lot of disrespect for super league and the less fashionable clubs

The injury won't have helped, but WB is not a risk taker, and I don't suppose he's planning for the long term, given that he'll be gone soon. That being the case, the fact that Hall and McGillvary served him well last time out, will probably have been his only consideration.

I am a selfish old sod and the club always comes first .For me TJ not getting picked is good news for the club because it means he can play for us and make out team stronger.


Furthermore Hall and McGilvery will make there own clubs weaker without their presence. Both of their clubs are our nearest rivals on the league table, so again good news.


One last point, I believe wing is probably the position that we have an abundance of talent in the UK game at the moment. There are at least 7 or 8 wingers in with a shout at getting an international shirt, so not getting picked should not be seen as such a disaster to TJ. He should keep playing well and make himself impossible to ignore

Shame for TJ but a good summer and he will be in in autumn.

Matty Ashurst should have been in the squad I feel. He’s a machine in defence, technique is impeccable in the tackle and runs good lines.

I think TJ and the rest of the Wakeys players are rubbish,So there'll after play for the Mighty Trin against Warrington i suppose















Up The Trin

Only game scheduled that weekend is The rearranged Cas v Wigan game on the Friday so unless the 19 fly out this week it won’t affect anyone other than Wigan that weekend

Having a Bennet-led team will do nothing for the game in the States. I enjoy a war of attrition but it is very much a purists pursuit. I was chatting to some union fans who thought the world cup final was dull as it was just 26 blokes running into each other for 80 minutes, like a never-ending bleep test. That won't appeal to curious neutrals.

As for the thought of TJ not playing, I think I'm with Vasty. Not sure his form this year would necessarily merit a place over players who've proved themselves at that level or scoring for the team at the top of the table. Not to do with TJ but more to do with the service he hasn't got this year. The end of the year tests might be different, when he's got better service on dry pitches.

This year is maybe one last year for Hall, who is reliable for England, and then TJ might get the call.

I feel for TJ.

The Denver match is a friendly with nothing at stake so why not experiment and try out a few combinations. Put Makinson and TJ on the wings and Richardson at half back.

We all know what Hall can do, what are we going to learn from him playing this match? Absolutely nothing. Also from what I remember over the last 3 seasons when we've played Leeds I've always felt that TJ outplayed Hall, sometimes by a country mile and exposed him.

Let's face it that it is the same old story, TJ plays for unfashionable Wakey. Forget whoever the England coach is, as long as you are with Wakey you'll be overlooked.

Totally agree.

Leeds are playing Catalan on Wednesday the 20th I doubt anyone in squad like Hall will be allowed to play that Wednesday and then travel to Denver. More than
Likely they will probably fly out either Wednesday or Thursday. That match could be massive.

Disappointed for Tom to miss out, and for the club, it's always nice to have 'homegrown' players to go on and get international recognition. He's been slightly hit and miss this season, and obviously hasn't started every game, which maybe hasn't helped his cause. All he can do is put himself top of the chasing pack of wingers behind Hall & McGillivray, no easy task because to be fair there are a few decent ones' out there. There's no doubt he has the natural ability to play at the highest level, but you don't always achieve what you deserve in professional sport do you?

This year is one of getting his game back to where it was pre injury. He's still coming off the back lengthy lay off so he will need roughly a season before he can progress. Hopefully he will have no further set backs which will allow him the opportunity fulfil his potential.

Personally I'm not d if he plays international RL or not, as I aren't with any Trinity player. I'd prefer them to be at their best for the club rather than country.

I would imagine that now Charnley is back in the fold and Wire are performing well that he will be higher in the pecking order than TJ now.

Still Manfredi to come back too? Probably best winger in Super League when fit.