Re: english state of origin : Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:23 pm  

i know people say we have got a lot going on as it is in a season but to be fair australia have state of origin and city vs country. we could have england v exiles and lancashire vs yorkshire.

also if there was a yorkshire v lancashire what would your team be?

Yorkshire:

1 Eden
2 Hall
3 Cudjoe
4 Atkins
5 T.Briscoe
6 L.Pryce
7 Brough
8 Crabtree
9 mcclorum [from leeds]
10 peacock
11 westwood [from yorkshire]
12 L.Patrick
13 Bateman

subs
robinson
hardaker
bailey
burrows

Re: english state of origin : Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:42 pm  

lancashire

tomkins

riley
makinson
goulding
charnley

briers
lomax

morley
roby
mossop
hock
louis mccarthy scarsbrook
mike cooper

Re: english state of origin : Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:52 pm  

wolfinwidnes wrote:

lancashire

tomkins

riley
makinson
goulding
charnley

briers
lomax

morley
roby
mossop
hock
louis mccarthy scarsbrook
mike cooper

LMS is a southerner, surely he would have to just sit and watch or could he claim residency

Re: english state of origin : Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:25 pm  

well half the team is cheshire/merseyside/greater manchester only hock technically from lancashire

Re: english state of origin : Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:43 pm  

wolfinwidnes wrote:

well half the team is cheshire/merseyside/greater manchester only hock technically from lancashire

Josh Charnley and Chris Tuson are both from Chorley, as is Josh Jones at Saints.

Re: english state of origin : Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:48 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

LMS is a southerner, surely he would have to just sit and watch or could he claim residency

London was part of the Lancashire RL, so following tradition London players would qualify for Lancashire under an origin type system.

Re: english state of origin : Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:53 pm  

Kelvin's Ferret wrote:

London was part of the Lancashire RL, so following tradition London players would qualify for Lancashire under an origin type system.

I dont know how to start and reconcile that one.
I suppose that they both start with "L"
It might be safer to call the fixture East vs West (due to the lack of true Lancashire teams), but there would still be plenty of Yorkshire, Yorkshire chants
Having said that, London is on the east side of the country

Re: english state of origin : Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:22 pm  

EHW wrote:

we have 4

And all of them fall at least in part within the County Palatine of Lancaster (I think pretty much all of Merseyside and Greater Manchester, and part of Cheshire).

Re: english state of origin : Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:48 pm  

wolfinwidnes wrote:

lancashire

tomkins

riley
makinson
goulding
charnley

briers
lomax

morley
roby
mossop
hock
louis mccarthy scarsbrook
mike cooper

Makinson aint a centre! And Mike Cooper ahead of Sinfield??

Re: english state of origin : Wed Jun 13, 2012 5:25 pm  

JonB95 wrote:

Makinson aint a centre! And Mike Cooper ahead of Sinfield??

didnt realise sinfield was a lancashire lad from oldham and tbh was doing it off the top of my head from teams where i could think of home grown players ie wigan, saints, wire