Not for me thanks. You should only play for England if you're born here. Thoughts?

Born here or spent a significant part of your life here AND not played for another nation.

Will be interesting to see who he picks for the back 5 this year. Our contingent of Hall, Briscoe, Hardaker and Watkins have been poor and or injured. Joe Burgess isn't getting games in Aus. Charnley is scoring and making good metres but shouldn't be considered because he's going to RU next year. Jack Reed seems to always be injured come end of the year. Shenton missed all year and Saints' lot of Makinson and Percival suffering with injuries too. Wouldn't pick Bateman at centre regardless of his off field issues.



Only McGillivery has scored tries and made metres in struggling team. If Bennett was going to go down the bringing in 'foreign' players route then the likes of Solomona and Justin Carney will have spent enough time in England wouldn't they?



Edit - forget about Man-Friday, so at the moment I'd go like this with the centres still undecided



1 - Tomkins

2 - McGillivery

3 -

4 -

5 - Manfredi

I wouldn't be averse to Hodkinson but the Morris twins have both played for Oz recently so I can't see how they'd be eligible despite both being fantastic players.

source?

Hodkinson's dad is English and wasn't it only his NSW selection he was worried about losing as to the reason he hadn't decided to play for England?



Morris twins no ta

At the moment I'd be tempted to go with something like this:



1. Tomkins

2. Broughton

3. Watkins

4. Currie

5. McGilvary

6. Gale

7. Sneyd

8. Graham

9. Hodgson

10. Hill

11. Burgess, S

12. Bateman

13. O'Loughlin



14. Clark

15. Burgess, G

16. Burgess, T

17. Westerman



Now I know Watkins hasn't been great this year so far but I don't think we can leave out such an athlete as him, especially as we're struggling a bit with regards to top centres.

I also personally wouldn't have O'Loughlin in the team, I'd play Westerman at 13 and bring either Cooper or Whitehead on to the bench, but if O'Loughlin is captain then he has to play.

The more Aussies in the side the better our chances.



The more NRL players in our side the better our chances.



Wayne Bennett knows this and should select players accordingly.



Refugees welcome!

If I was to pick a England squad now with everyone fit I'd go with



Shaul

Mcgilvery

Watkins

Sarginson

Broughton

Widdop

Gale

Hill

Hodgson

Graham

Bateman

Whitehead

S.Burgess



Subs

Houghton

T.Burgess

Cooper

Ferres





I think most of that team have been I'm good for most of the season and players who haven't been too consistent like Watkins and Burgess are class and can do something special for your team.

Watkins... Jeezus wept!

Every other country in the world (in all sports) picks the best available eligible team, regardless of place of birth. Maybe nobody has told Wayne Bennett some backward thinking flat earth brigade find it unacceptable for England rugby league to do the same.

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