Re: England Team : Fri Nov 15, 2013 1:22 pm  

Brough should have been playing for England,simple as that.Mac never selected him so after that he chose to play for Scotland otherwise he wouldn't have been playing in the World Cup at all.A mistake imo.

Re: England Team : Fri Nov 15, 2013 4:56 pm  

If England go on and win the tournament will not picking Brough still be a mistake ?

Re: England Team : Fri Nov 15, 2013 5:06 pm  

If Chase is the architect of an England win then no it would be a stroke of genius/a bold move but if he's carried by the likes of Sinfield, Burgess, Roby etc then yes it is a mistake.....Chase was 'carried' in the game against Australia. He's played 'lesser' teams since then, if he performs against New Zealand then I will apologise but he's had 3 cracks at Australia, 1 crack at New Zealand, 1 crack at Wales and has failed to impress in any of these games.

If say Sam Tomkins failed to impress in this amount of games against this calibre of opposition people would be rightly saying picking him over Hardaker was a mistake.

Re: England Team : Sat Nov 16, 2013 1:19 pm  

Buck Tarbrush wrote:

If England go on and win the tournament will not picking Brough still be a mistake ?

Did you enjoy Brough's performance last night?

Not selecting the man of steel is a big mistake imo whatever else happens.

Re: England Team : Sun Nov 17, 2013 12:51 pm  

Widdop should be in before Chase & Sinfield.

Sinfield should be 13 or not in team

Chase should not be in squad but its only what the Aussies & Kiwis have been doing for years

Halves should be Brough & Widdop


Imho

Re: England Team : Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:23 am  

HamsterChops wrote:

Chase shouldn't be playing because he's a Kiwi. Regardless of how good he is. It's England, not New Zealand.

If we didn't have these stupid residency rules, we wouldn't have this debate. Widdop and Sinfield would be the halves (and rightly so).

What do you suggest the rules on residency/eligibility should be then?

Re: England Team : Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:45 am  

When you are growing up you know what your nationalality is.Thats who you play for.

Having said that my lad only just missed out playing for Italy in this World Cup.

Re: England Team : Thu Nov 21, 2013 1:50 pm  

Looks like Steve Mac as finally seen sense about Widdop and Chase

Re: England Team : Thu Nov 21, 2013 2:12 pm  

Just seen it, can't believe you would start tinkering with the half backs for a semi final against the world champs.

Surely Chase must be injured?

Re: England Team : Thu Nov 21, 2013 2:35 pm  

If you believe the rumour on the Salford board both chase & mike mc have been naughty boys!!!. Yet more discipline issues!!!