England team Vs New Zealand : Tue Oct 06, 2015 12:40 pm
Now that the regular season is almost over I was looking forward to the upcoming test series and wondering how we will line up in the 1st game. Whilst G Burgess will be a big miss I think this has the potential to be one of the best England teams in my lifetime. For me it would be something like this (with half an eye on the world cup in 2017)1. Hardaker
2. McGilvary
3. Watkins
4. Reed
5. Hall
6. Widdop
7. Gale
8. Hill
9. Roby
10. Graham
11. Whitehead
12. Bateman
13. Cuthbertson
14. S Tomkins
15. T Burgess
16. Walmsley
17. Currie
The selection of Tomkins may seem an odd one but I can see him being used the way that Leeds have used Burrow over the past few years, coming in at dummy half to run at tired defenders while Roby is spelled or covering 13. There are a lot of quality players who miss out and I think arguments could be made for the likes of Williams, Briscoe, Percival, Amor, Ferres, LMS, Clark, Hodgson, Cooper and many more.
That is just my opinion though and with about a month to go I was wondering what other peoples opinions were. The only place we don't have any serious quality in depth for me is the back row as I don't think Farrell and J Tomkins are international standard.