have been very impressed with lineham and crooks, a potential England 2 and 3 combo?

but lets let them carry on their excellent development before we start talking them up for the national side, however I wouldn't be too disappointed if they were called up so early in their careers.



we seem to be doing well with decent backs at the moment what with

hall

Briscoe

cudjoe

riley

atkins

charnley

lineham

crooks

mcgilvary

Percival and makinson are looking pretty good for saints, and Jordan Thompson at cas has impressed too.





now if we had a few decent half backs...................

134 tries in 254 games, pretty good for someone who has never done anything in attack, in a side that traditionally don't attack very well.



He probably won't play for England again with the emergence of some of our outside backs at the moment, but he's had a good career and is still a solid centre.



Crooks and Lineham are a quality pairing at the moment but I think this World Cup is a little too soon for them, but next years end of season tournament is a definite possibility.

Spot on. Gentle on radio after the game as good as said he would try to discourage England and hoped they would feature for the knights instead. Throwing them in too early would stunt there development IMO .

Still hurting?

I guess that makes you a master baiter.

Posters whose idiocy is exposed always resort to pretending that they were fishing. Funny that.

The overrated Yeaman must not wear an England shirt because of his selfish actions last night...it's because he's simply not good enough.



If he was a top player he wouldn't be playing for the Hull FC's of this world, now would he.

Too obvious, Brucey.

Agreed on every point.

When Yeaman was selected for representative honours in the past, it was always because of his defence. Nobody ever suggested that he was a brilliant attacking centre in the mould of Kallum Watkins. But now his real liabilities in attack have been exposed, his defence is not enough to compensate.



Michael Shenton also was always getting picked for rep games largely because of his defensive skills. But I don't recall him ever doing something in attack as appallingly selfish as what Yeaman did.

When Yeaman was selected for international honours he deserved it but there are now plenty in front of him including Crooks from his own team, As a rovers fan I am happy to recomend Houghton for the hooking place as I think he is simply the best in super league, Josh Hodgson would be a good back up if he was injured as would two or three others.

People seem to have forgotten that James Roby exists because he's been out injured. Roby is pretty much the first name on the team sheet when fit.