The only difference between the 17 that played GB and the 17 in the final was Thurston (Hornby), Hodges (Lyon) and Ryan (Kaufusi).



You got beat. Get over it. You won the 3N, so I don't know why you're still so bitter over this defeat.

I'll hold you to that!

Forget about Jack Reed. Wests Tigers' Chris Heighington added to England train-on squad.

Good. Another good player, the more we have to choose from the more chance we've got. England/GBs problem over the years has always been depth. We seem to have 15 or 16 good players and on paper our team looks competitive, then after a full season the Internationals come round and with 5 or 6 injuries we look god awful and you've got Farrell/Scully/Brown at 6 and Sinfield at 9 and players don't know whether they're coming or going. Now we seem to have 4 or 5 decent players in each position.

we don't need chris Heighington..we have enough backrowers and if Heighington was good enough he'd be playing origin

Cannot believe anyone has not mentioned Cudjoe for a wing spot. Has really come on defensively the last year, very good at taking the high ball and quick. Depending on his injury i would put him in the mix with Hall and Briscoe.



As much as a like Charnley his defence needs another season.

Cudjoe should be in the squad but would be behind Hall, Briscoe and Charnley when talking about wingers.

"Overnight, England announced they had their man, following weeks of calls between Reed and English coach Steve McNamara. Kath Reed said the past few weeks had been a whirlwind for her and husband Joe, and they were surprised by the decision after seeing Jack grow up with dreams of wearing the green and gold. "I haven't got a clue what changed his mind," she said. "He said he'd been thinking about it and if the opportunity arose he wanted to play for England." www.couriermail.com.au/questnews ... 6138714219

"Overnight, England announced they had their man, following weeks of calls between Reed and English coach Steve McNamara. Kath Reed said the past few weeks had been a whirlwind for her and husband Joe, and they were surprised by the decision after seeing Jack grow up with dreams of wearing the green and gold. "I haven't got a clue what changed his mind," she said. "He said he'd been thinking about it and if the opportunity arose he wanted to play for England." www.couriermail.com.au/questnews ... 6138714219

Tom Briscoe, Kris Welham and Kirk Yeaman added to England train-on squad alongside Reed and Heighington.

Arundel, Broughton, Cox, Donaldson, Gale, Houghton, Ratchford, M Smith, Taylor, Watts, Westerman added to England Knights squad.

You could already pick a pretty decent English backline from that list



I would suggest that a back line of Briscoe, Yeaman, Reed and Broughton is at least as good as the one that contested the last world cup semi final... Gardner, Gleeson, Senior, Calderwood

I'd say it's better.

I think that the wingers are far better - if Reed is as good as everyone says (I haven't seen much NRL this year) then I would agree