Well done for making the England squad. No other representative which is disappointing.

Disapointing but understandable IMO, Hooker was a very competitive postion with Hodgson doing so well in the NRL and Clark being a different style of hooker and adding something different. Of the other candidates Shaul's form has dipped massively since Wembley, Ellis' late injury probably ended any long-shot hopes of coming out of retirement and Watts is good but can make big errors and England are very strong in the forwards.

Overall it helps us get the team refreshed after a tiring end to the season.

I wouldn't disagree with any of that. The squad has no real surprises.

Looked totally shot at end of season so another 4 games to totally knacker him out

Then again, the experience should benefit him. I'm sure anybody in his shoes would love to play for England

Congratulations to Scott.

I'm not sure he'll get that much game time to be honest. Hill, Graham, Cooper, Burgess twins all being in the squad too.

The experience of the Aussies handing us arris on a plate again

I'm optimistic we'll do better this time, England have been competing for a few years, and hopefully Bennett's discipline, tactics and winning mentality will make a difference.

We've played them twice in 5 years:

4 Nations in 2014 (in Melbourne), 16:12 to Aus
- this was the Ryan Hall try that wasn't a try game, where we should've won.

2013 World Cup, 28 :20 to Aus in Cardiff


Pretty competitive I'd say.

The way to beat them is play off the cuff rugby,they are so structured to plan A that of you knock them off it,they haven't a plan b and they cant cope.

Wow.....competitive LOSSES all the same

I think thats a bonus for us.He wont be happy not getting any/much game time but he had nothing left in the tank towards the season end

I guess FC weren't competitive in the LLS game or the SL semi-final then? We may as well give up for 2017 as using your logic we'll get our s handed to us again?

You're in a very negative mood today aren't you Baldy? Starting with that bitter thread you started this morning that was swiftly locked. Crap banter, get locked.

I think baldy is just randomly mashing the keyboard as he desperately tries to delete his account.

Can see what Bennett is going for with Lomax over Shaul. Completely different fullbacks. A few luddites on facebook absolutely livid over it, calling it an RFL conspiracy against Hull. Curse them and our full pre season

Bitter thread?..true thread but the mods are miserable 2@ and owt gets locked.

Disappointing for others (but well done Scott Taylor), but they'll get a rest, a good pre-season and a good year next year for us then there's the small matter of the World Cup. Would rather we had a good shout at players for that than just the 4 Nations.