England squad announced in just over an hour.. My team:



FB: Hardaker

W: J.Burgess

C: Percival

C: Watkins

W: McGillvary

S/O: McGuire

S/H: Williams

P: Hill

H: Roby

P: Graham

SR: Whitehead

SR: Farrell

L: Cuthbertson



J.Hodgson

Watts

Savelio

Mike Cooper



That would be my team (George Burgess would be in but injured). Fairly young team, but the idea of the team is to build it for the next world cup..



Everyone else's team??

Leroy, Jerry and Brett all included, surprised at Ferres to be honest .

very surprised at having 3 named, Jerry was obvious, Leroy, i thought had a chance, with his end of season form, but didn't think Ferres had any chance, well done to all 3 of them though.



wonder now if steve mac will possibly play Leeds pair of Hall & Watkins Bateman & Burgess of Wigan and our pair of Cudjoe & McGillvary?

Same thoughts for me as I have posted on a Facebook thread



" Thought Jerry was nailed on, Leroy an outside chance and Brett would miss out due to the disrupted season, made up for them all "

Really pleased for Jerry - but surely not even Macca could have overlooked the top try scorer in SL??? Well deserved and really looking forward to seeing how he goes. Good for Leroy too - on his day as good as any. As for Brett only surprised that after a long layoff he got in - he is a very versatile player so gives us lots of options and cover for injuries during games. Well done to all of them!!!

Actually I'm as pleased for Cudjo as I am for Mcgilvray who has really earned his place. Cudjo has come back strongly in the 8s league games, getting into the England setup will probably add to that momentum, Really surprised at Ferris getting in, but good luck to all of them.

hope jerry has a better time than when he last played for the england knights and tore his pec and had to come off!



great for cudjoe will build his confidence again, top player



ferres might be cover to play hooker again

cudjoe and ferres in the 19 to face france on saturday, think cudjoe could play unless they put bateman at centre



mcgillvary not in, burgess and hall look to be first choice.

cudjoe no playing , ferres on the bench .....

bateman at centre then with watkins other side?



ferres replacement for 2nd row or loose.. not hooker i hope like before!

So the winger whos played against every other club in Superleague and scored most tries over the season has still work to do..........???



Beyond me -sorry !

I gave up a long time ago in trying to work out mcbanana's method in picking his team, he's never been capable of picking the best team and never will. It bemuses me why nobody at the RFL gets involved and has a quiet word in his ear, or do they just let him get on with it?