Apart from those that do, and enjoy it. RL fans are a bunch of miserable g!ts.

I reckon the team will be:



Tomkins

Charnley

Cudjoe

Hardaker

Hall

Sinfield

Chase

Mossop

Roby

Hill

Ellis

Westwood

Flanders



Burrow

Crabtree

Morley

Ferres

Does he? who apart from Hardaker will be playing out of position? who in last years tournament played out of position?

Can Sinfield play centre? maybe he wants to try him in that role



I find it incredible that in a meaningless friendly match he is still refusing to pick form players and give them a try, players like :



Lunt

Houghton

Kirmond

Crooks

Lineham

Ratchford

Atkins

Goulding etc

Should at least have been looked at.



What is the point of naming Roby and Ellis when they have hardly played all year and no one can get any indication of what kind of form their in.



Burrow and JJB are simply in because they play for Leeds as even their own fans have said how poor they have been, Sinfield, because he is captain and again not on form



Morley is the past, we should be looking to youth and the future now !



...a bit strange really when you consider the talent we have available that he still picks the same players regardless of how fit or how well they are playing !!

What a joke this selection is.



Roby - not been playing

JJB - seriously

Burrow - not good enough

Morley - well past it!

Chase - not exactly in brilliant form

Ellis - offers nothing in attack for me

Myler - overrated



Would have like to have seen Ben crooks given a go at centre.

Based on the announcement Id go with,



Tomkins

Charnley

Cudjoe

Hardaker

Hall

Sinfield

Myler

Crabtree

Roby

Hill

Farrell

Westwood

O'Loughlin





Chase

Ferres

Mossop

Burrow



Moz too old, hasn't played much lately, there because of who he is,

Ellis, again hasn't played much lately and there because of who he is,

JJB, love him to bits but currently behind the other back rowers in the squad.



Here's who I would like to see, without the Oz based players,



Tomkins

Charnley

Cudjoe

Watkins/Atkins

Hall

Sinfield

Myler

Crabtree

Lunt/Houghton

Hill

Farrell

Westwood

O'Loughlin

Incorrect. Been outstanding the last 6 weeks, tops the assists in SL, playing less games then some of the nearest to him.

Technically, Hardaker is playing out of position for Leeds.

I think most of us want 'meaningful' competition. I am not into this idea of making up international teams when in reality if you asked a random sample of people in those countries to name an RL player they would look at you with a blank expression, some (Lebanon) might even as what rugby (either code) was.



There are 5 countries who play the game at any reasonable standard, Aussie, GB, France, NZ and PNG. The rest, such as Russia, South Africa, Lebanon etc are a joke.



Lets get back to GB test series against Aussie and Kiwi with regular matches with the Frogs.

Tomkins and O'Loughlin may yet withdraw from the squad due to knocks they picked up against Wakefield, and I hope that they do. The game against Wire the week after is far more important than some meaningless friendly.

Barring some almighty choking or freak run of results for Hudds, Wigan have already won the LLS regardless of the result with Wire.

You could argue the only friendly for England prior to the WC is far more important than a "meaningless" league fixture. So the combinations get one final tough game together and a better understanding of their games before the tournament starts.



Don't ask me that on the Monday though...

I don't know why we're bothering with an England squad. The attendance at the game will be down 14.26% on last year