I know it sounds unpatriotic but i find myself saying the thing.

But at lease we'll have a greater pool of mediocrity to chose from

How?

Surely, if the rules were kept the same, we would have a worse situation than we have now as all the 'heros' and 'senior/must have' players within Super League would have retired. The RFL are trying to help the International team by having a higher concentration of homegrown players training full time within their clubs, rather than crocked Aussies and older British players looking to increase their earnings before they retire.

All what will happen is that players who normally would have been released due to them not been able to make the step up to SL will be getting retained due to their passport. Which will make the league and standard of play alot weaker.

The whole blame the imports idea is an easy excuse for our failings at International level. In 5 years time when we are further behind Australia i wonder what the excuse will be.

PATHETIC!!!! Utter crap if we some how FLUKE our way into the final then i fear the ozzys will run in 100 in the final past them clowns!!! To think i actually had some of my hard earned on them,should of known better!!! [size=200PATHETIC[/size

Wasn't blaming the Aussies at all, just saying that with more players training at a high standard within clubs, the chances of finding International standard players are going to be higher. Whether that happens is a different story, but you can't predict what is going to happen to 'the standards of play' when its a new idea introduced to try and help.

Think some of Smiths interchanges and re-shuffles was amateurish decisions. I know a lot of things that went wrong, was through certain players inability to perform in certain positions. Yet honestly think that the reason we lost this was down to Smith and his in match decisions.

This is the team i'd play next week IF we get through.

Wellens, Gardner, Gleeson, Senior, Smith, Mcguire, Burrow, Morely, Higham, Peacock, Ellis, Buchanan, Purdham subs, Graham, Langley, Roby, Pryce.

Best of a bad bunch imo.

swap mcguire for sinfield and i'd agree.

Still jobs for the boys though.

Would have Smith in over the slug that is Wellens

lets face it, by and large the squad is wrong, so we can't make a lot of changes anyway.

True......too many average players in that squad,just because you play for sts and Leeds doesnt make you good.

Play off for second and third place next week.

It does! Gardner scored loads of tries!!!!

Spot on, woeful selection of players.

Even sadder thing is that there are not many players not selected who would make a great difference.

yup. Not sure how many kids are coming through either that would make a difference in the future.

BBC1, Davies/Paul and Carney are spouting guff!

Or what ever he`s called these days

Anyway

Take a bow

You have to say he`s been one of the stand out players of the world cup

always gives 100%, has a great talent, definately had a stormer in the world cup.

Turned it off as soon as Carney started talking!! What tripe!

Missed that. Just watched the Aussies then turned it off. What was said??

Pryce on the wing!!!!!

Glad i aint got it on....has Davies said Lizzy at F/B yet.

Just usual tripe. Pryce on the wing was a cracker. Also started on about our running from acting half and made the point that we look better when the forwards make yards, no s*it sherlcok!!

Pryce, IMO, shouldn't be playing. I know some will disagree, but why split up a Grand Final winning partnership of McGuire and Burrow just to stick him in because he plays for Saints? If Pryce was to play, it would be in the centres for me. Where Smith got Gleeson for 6 from amazes me.