Who says he is not Australian? What passport does he carry? if its Australian he is Australian.

But Chase is a Kiwi that was brought up in Australia and has lived for three years in England, until a couple of months ago he aspired to play in the NRL and wanted to represent New Zealand.



Heighington has no connection with England other than heritage, he has failed to make the NSW side year after year and has decided a Test Cap for any Nation is better than none at all.



Reed left England when he was two and up and till a month ago declared his ambition to play for Australia.



Widdop Left England as a 14 year old and has been developed by the Melbourne Storm and before last years series was debating which Nation he would represent/have the best chance of selection and chose England.



Australia has NEVER chosen a player to represent Australia with anything like the situation of the above four players.

I hope the Aussies and Kiwi’s have the same attitude



The more I think about it, the more excited I am about the potential in the English backline/halves



Tomkins

Hall

Reed

Yeaman

Briscoe

Widdop

Chase



This 1-7 averages under 25 and for me is the most attacking backline we have put together for years

I stopped reading here.

So what are the likely 17s going to be?



Aus:



Slater

Boyd/Morris

Tonga

Inglis

Uate

Lockyer

Thurston

Scott

Smith

Galloway

Thaiday

Lewis

Gallen



Shillington

Watmough

Scott

Parker



Not much depth in the forwards or centres, but all the key players are still there.



England:



Tomkins

Hall

Reed

Yeaman

Briscoe

Widdop

Chase

Graham

Roby

Peacock

Ellis

Westood

Heighton



Sinfield

Morley

Carvell

JJB



NZ (I'm not really sure about this at all)



Geale

Nightingale

Taylor

Manering

Fai-Fai Loa (beast)

Benji

Fein/Foran

Packer

Leuluai

Hargreaves

Smith

Manu

Blair



Luke

Moi Moi

Matulino

Brown



Those team are based on the squads I've found on the net. I found it very hard to pick a side for Aus and NZ. NZ have a very young looking side but don't be fooled some of them are top players already. Will be a very interesting series.

This is the Australian team about to play the Kiwis on Sunday



KANGAROOS

1. Billy Slater

2. Akuila Uate

3. Willie Tonga

4. Chris Lawrence

5. Darius Boyd

6. Darren Lockyer (c)

7. Johnathan Thurston

8. Paul Gallen

9. Cameron Smith

10. Matt Scott

11. Luke Lewis

12. Sam Thaiday

13. Anthony Watmough

Interchange:

14. Cooper Cronk

15. Keith Galloway

16. David Shillington

17. Tony Williams

Easily the best "Spine" in the game

Inglis will be in that side come the Four Nations.

The Kiwi side to play Oz on Sunday.

KIWIS

1. Kevin Locke

2. Kalifa Faifai Loa

3. Lewis Brown

4. Gerard Beale

5. Jason Nightingale

6. Benji Marshall (c)

7. Kieran Foran

8. Russell Packer

9. Nathan Fien

10. Sam McKendry

11. Alex Glenn

12. Simon Mannering

13. Jeremy Smith.

Interchange:

14. Issac Luke

15. Fuifui Moimoi

16. Sika Manu

17. Jared Waerea-Hargreaves.

I’ve watched the Kangaroos play since ’84 and from 2 to 5 that’s among the worst backlines I can remember. All good players but nowhere near the quality that Australia has produced in the past



Inglis is top class and would make that side a whole lot better but his fitness and form are questionable

The key for the Aussies (to to a lesser extent NZ) is that despite having a few injuries all their key players (Slater/Lockyer/Thurston/Inglis/Smith) are fit to play.

Boyd and Uate will be superstars, potentially they're as good as any of the Aussie wingers of the last 20 years.

Not sure about that, it appears weak at first glance although..

Slater best in the World at Fullback

Uate up and comer age 24, 52 tries from 68 games in the NRL

Tonga is borderline 7 tries in 10 Tests though, 75 tries from 150 NRL games

Lawrence up and comer age 22, 55 tries in 98 NRL games

Boyd 2010 Dally M fullback of the year came third in the NRL as Dally M player of the year 2010

Thurston one of the best 5 players in the World.

Lockyer....Legend

Put Inglis in, replacing Tonga and its pretty solid.

If you took the time to actually read my post, you will see I said from 2 to 5... I am not talking about Slater, Thurston and Lockyer

Who would you rather see on the team sheet against England, Boyd and Uate or Israel Folau and Wendell Sailor?