BrisbaneRhino wrote:
Sal, without a completely unlikely massive upswing in quality in SL, the only way England will ever beat Australia is with as many NRL players as possible. We've been trying to develop home grown players for ever, and yet we often struggle to find a quality 1-5 (right now we're one or two injuries away from players who wouldn't get a regular NRL start never mind being stars) and haven't had a pair of quality halfbacks since Schofield was playing. I can't see one English halfback in SL that would be a regular in the NRL.
The aim has to be to compete and win. But I'm fed up of England being gallant losers (or just losers full stop). I want the England coach to be cuththroat and completely single minded about getting wins. So long as what he does is within the laws of the game I'm all for it. TBH I don't think we can win with Bennett or anyone else as we simply don't have enough quality players. But I hope he proves me wrong.
Gale would go well in the NRL, unfortunately for him no NRL team would look to SL for a halfback
The last england team to beat the aussies was 2006 believe?
No Aussies in the side and only one NRL player
There are good players in SL they just have to have the belief that they can win, a belief that will be eradicated if we play ausies in the side who are only playing because the roos wouldn't have them