He is the only British fullback that has pace. Paul Wellens and Shaun Briscoe are too slow & are not good enough. Sam Tomkins is doing a sterling job for us at the moment at fullback, but we need him at six at international level because no other halfback is as strong in defence as him. Danny McGuire has had a good season, but is very average in defence for Leeds & is utterly atrocious for us at international level. He will just get ripped to pieces.

Start with the bench, as i feel we need an aggressive option to come on when needed, especially in the southern hemisphere.



14. Ryan Bailey

15. Eorl Crabtree

16. Joel Tomkins

17. Ben Westwood



1. Sam Tomkins

2. Tom Briscoe

3. Martin Gleeson

4. Keith Senior

5. Ryan Hall

6. Danny Maguire

7. Rob Burrow

8. Adrian Morley

9. Jon Clarke

10. James Graham

11. Gareth Ellis

12. Sam Burgess

13. Sean O'Loughlin



to travel also, Sinfield, Eastmond, Atkins, Tickle, Roby & Fielden

Hasn't Senior retired from internaional rugby?

To travel only? you must be joking he will have to be in the starting 13 unless injured of course. It is like saying Sam to travel also.

Bailey is just a thug, not much of a rugby player. He had a great chance to step up and lead the pack at the weekend and responded by doing nothing except starting fights. Eastmond has to be in there too, he's quality

IN the last 6 weeks Westwood has played better than Joel. If you're picking on form, its Westwood at the moment.

1.Widdop

2.Pryce (leon)

3.Gleeson

4.Shenton

5.Hall

6.Tomkins

7.Eastmond

8.Graham

9.Sinfield

10.Morley

11.Ellis

12.Burgess

13.Locky



14. Roby

15. Tomkins

16. Westood

17. Coley



Burgess to rotate between Prop and secondrow.

1. Widdop

2. Riley

3. Atkins

4. Gleeson

5. Hall

6. Tomkins

7. Eastmond

8. Morley

9. Sinfield

10.Graham

11.Ellis

12.Tomkins

13.O'Loughlin



14.Burgess

15.Westwood

16.Coley

17.Roby



Picked Riley because theres no real stand out winger .and his partnership with Atkins gives him the nod for me.



the pack is hard as nails same as the bench.

Everyone seems to consider Ryan Hall as an automatic choice. Personally think he's a little over-rated and looked very average in the England shirt last year.

1. Tomkins

2. Riley

3. Atkins

4. Shenton

5. Hall

6. Mcguire

7. Eastmond

8. Burgess

9. Sinfield

10.Graham

11.Ellis

12.Westwood

13.O'Loughlin



14.Morley

15.Heighington

16.Coley

17.Roby

Not many better options around though unfortunately. There's Hall, Fox, Briscoe and Riley to pick from but none really stand out as significantly better than everyone else. Hall probably gets the nod simply because he's the biggest

Bridges form was class before he had to get the injury sorted he was our top player for try assists at the time and IMO his form was better then Atkins right now, but Atkins has abit of a different game style to Bridge though, Bridge can fill a number of positions has a good kicking an passing game and a great step which can unlock any defence but Atkins does seem to get better week after week he runs in the ball hard everytime and is a great athlete, from a Wire point of view if its going to be very interesting as our backline is awesome right now on paper Atkins, Bridge along with King, Hicks is mouthwatering but that doesn't mean it the best combo from a team sense, for England though if he gets back to his best an he could come back better because he play through the pain until it was sorted I would give it to Bridge both are still young though an have time on their side.