love it

i think englands best chance is to start a brawl in the first five minutes and rattle the ausies, the kiwis showed last night that if you give the aussies some clog they wont like it.

Sir, I like the cut of you jib.

I couldn't disagree more, Brough behind Englands pack could pick and poke Australia to death with the boot.

He absolutely would refuse to be dominated or intimidated.

Having now seen Aus & NZ and given the whole league of players to pick from I'd go for something like:

Briscoe
Eastmond
Clubb
Bridge
Hall
Tomkins
Brough
Graham
Diskin
Peacock
Ellis
Westwood
Burgess

Roby
Crabtree
Morley
Carvell

I don't think either Clubb or Bridge will be bullied by Inglis/Hodges or Matai/Sau. They are both physical centres who offer a different type of threat going forward and have solid defensive games.

Tomkins/Brough as a partnership give us a superb kicking game, good passing options and a running threat to the opposition.

The pack is big and brutal and that's how I would play them.

Diskin & Roby give us two kinds of attacking option from dummy half and either could be on the pitch dependent upon how the game has developed.

I wouldn't mind seeing Eastmond at full back, as I like the idea of him popping up everywhere in attack and complementing the half-backs. Briscoe is a good full back, but defensively we can only expect so much, as the Aussie attack in Briscoe's eyes will come at him something like this:

Superb photo

In this scenario you can do one of two things;

1) Run into the fat guy who's sideways on and claim obstruction.
2) Hope your wife remembers where the will is!!

isnt the "fat guy" ET??
think best option looking at that lot is to run away!

Ok, thats my new Option 1, so theres 3 options!

Actually, in a similar scenario against Saints didn't Blaymire nail the ball carrier (?Wellens) and save a certain try?

BLAYMIRE FOR ENGLAND!!

who are those 5
offside one is et?
then er name escaped me, full back
meninga
cleal
and dont know one on left

Is the Hull fullback Gary Kemble?

gary tremble more like!

Its not ET he was not on the 86 tour, which i think this photo is from, he is also sporting the 6 shirt which makes it more unlikely.

Meninga and Cleal stand out a mile I think the ET look alike is Terry Lamb the others are i think Dowling and Simmons (not too sure though).

Think you are right with Lamb, is the 13 Wayne Pearce?

I look at it and think Mick O'Connor but if Mal has made the break it makes no sense for him to be supporting.

From left to right on the photo:
Bob Lindner, Terry Lamb, Mal Meninga, Noel Cleal, Royce Simmons

Pretty chuffed with my first call given i was 8 at the time!