I have been asked to nominate the England squad of 23 to contest the 2013 World Cup.



Below is a tentative squad for the 2013 World Cup. It contains some of the most exciting three quarters and halves that England has produced in two decades. The final squad of 23 will be announced sometime in 2013.



Can they win it?



[size=117FULL BACKS: Lee Smith, Dave Halley



THREE QUARTERS:

Shaun Ainscough, Michael Shenton, Tony Clubb, Ashley Gibson, Tom Briscoe, Will Sharp



HALVES:

Greg McNally,

Richie Myler, Kyle Eastmond



BACK ROWERS:

Joe Westerman, Michael Worrincy

Gareth Hock, Carl Ablett, Jon Wilkin



PROPS: James Graham, Sam Burgess, Luke Burgess, Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook, David Williams



HOOKERS: James Roby, Ben Kaye[/size

dave halley's welsh

I will have to replace him immediately!!

Halley is welsh!

Gibson isn't good enough for Leeds when Smith is out never mind England!

Scott Moore will be in the side by then!

No Sam Tomkins or McGuire who will only be 30!

No Ashurst for Ablett



McShane should be in there as well

No Watkins??

McNally is in there who isn't proven at SL level yet...

Joel Tomkins will be good enough.

Yeaman should be in there.

Ellis will still be good enough.



I'd go:



1. Lee Smith

2. Tom Briscoe

3. Kirk Yeaman

4. Michael Shenton

5. Shaun Ainscough

6. Danny McGuire

7. Kyle Eastmond

8. Sam Burgess

9. Scott Moore

10. James Graham

11. Jon Wilkin

12. Gareth Ellis

13. Joe Westerman



14. James Roby

15. Gareth Hock

16. LMS

17. Luke Burgess



18. Sam Tomkins

19. Richie Myler

20. Paul Prescott

21. Paul Clough

22. Joel Tomkins

23. Ben Jones Bishop

[size=117FULL BACKS: Lee Smith, Chris Melling



THREE QUARTERS:

Shaun Ainscough, Michael Shenton, Tony Clubb, Ashley Gibson, Tom Briscoe, Will Sharp



HALVES:

Greg McNally,

Richie Myler, Kyle Eastmond



BACK ROWERS:

Joe Westerman, Michael Worrincy

Gareth Hock, Carl Ablett, Jon Wilkin



PROPS: James Graham, Sam Burgess, Luke Burgess, Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook, David Williams



HOOKERS: James Roby, Ben Kaye[/size

Might be an idea to select a full back who's a full back.

Michael Lawrence should be in there at centre. If you are struggling for a full back then Cudjoe is developing well at the moment.

Paul Clough will be in there, IMO.

Myler is a better player than Eastmond imo, hes showing class even in Salford's average team, lets see how eastmond would go in our side instead of a worldclass Saints team? Myler before eastmond for me.

Cant see what all the fuss is about Myler tbh. He will be another Danny Brough. Shines at small clubs, but wouldnt have a clue at a big club.



Eastmond all the way

How do you work that one out? Danny Brough has only played for one big team Hull, and if you haven’t forgotten he won them the challenge cup! Eastmond has only ever played for Saints lets see how he would go playing for Celtic or Salford? I guarantee he wouldn’t even get noticed, I mean even I could play for Saints and look good.



Myler is a better player.

I agree with your argument.

No you haven't

Yes he has

Of course all but a handful of players in the England squad in 2013 will be between 22 and 26, and will have made their debuts between 2006 and 2008.

Melling - Average

Club, Gibson, Sharp - All average

McNally - No

Worrincy - Average

Ablett - lol

Williams - Who?

Kaye - lol

[size=117You are wrong about McNally. The Super League community will be having =redMcNally fever within two years.



But as for the others you disparage, who would you replace them with?[/size

Oh Lordy! I've only just got over Maxime Greseque fever.





NURSE!!

Exactly, which makes this thread ridiclous.



I think AP is one of them people that subscribe to the theory "the louder I shout about something, the smarter people will think I am", basically going by the repetitive nature and the fact that he increases his font size on most posts!

[size=109No. Most of those playing in the England team in 2013 will be between 22 and 27, which is why the people named are relevant.



I am not sure why predicting the future England team is more ridiculous than the usual repetitively dull banter about the bad referees. I would think it less so.[/size





[size=109

I don't need people to know how smart I am. I know and smart people also know already. What I have to do is to wake readers up to start thinking about the future, which is where I intend to visit in person -- unlike the obese pie and fish and and chips eaters, the alcoholics, and the drug addicts, who will all miss out.



As for repetition, I don't recall this post ever appearing here before. Repetitive is what the silly referee threads are.[/size

I think it's pretty ridiculous to predict an England team 4.5 years into the future. A lot can happen in 4.5 years. A lot of players can turn up in 4.5 years. A lot can leave in 4.5 years. It's all total guess work. Could you have even closely predicted the 2008 WC squad in 2004?





How many people know how smart you are then? This should be interesting...





So you are the prophet then? You have to wake everyone up? How do you wake these people up AND exclude people at the same time? Because you've just menioned who are going to miss out. Or are these the people you need to wake up? Because I'm sure insulting them will go a long way to doing that!



Not only do I doubt your ability to think about the future from a non-biased angle, I also doubt your ability to get your message across to people! It seems social interaction is not your strong point!







No, but I do recall many other posts you've made about many of the players in this thread as individuals. It's dunny how all the London-trained players are in there.

Kallum Watkins is a centre btw.

so are you saying that not one player will rise through to become and international in a matter or a seson or 2 a-la roby,graham,mcguire etc?





rubbish post

I wrote in my original post the following:



=greenBelow is a tentative squad for the 2013 World Cup. It contains some of the most exciting three quarters and halves that England has produced in two decades. The final squad of 23 will be announced sometime in 2013.



So if you had read my original post carefully, you would realise that I was not predicting the future squad with precision, only predicting the likely squad based on current form and age.



Of course another great player like Roby, Briscoe, McNally or McCarthy-Scarsbrook could appear out of nowehere in the interim. If that happens two years from now then I will add him to the squad which I formulate at that time.



I wondered in my original headline whether this squad was good enough to win the World Cup.



No one has speculated an answer to that question yet.