Re: Saints' board England 24 man squad. : Sun Oct 05, 2014 2:38 pm  

Full Backs

Sam Tomkins
Zak Hardaker

Wingers

Ryan Hall
Josh Charnley
Joe Burgess

Centres

Kallum Watkins
Michael Shenton
Dan Sarginson

Halves

Matty Smith
Gareth Widdop
Stefan Ratchford

Hookers

Daryl Clark
Josh Hodgson

Props

Tom Burgess
George Burgess
James Graham
Mike Cooper
Chris Hill

Back Rowers

Elliot Whitehead
Joe Westerman
Brett Ferres
Sean O'Loughlin (C)
Liam Farrell
Joel Tomkins

Re: Saints' board England 24 man squad. : Sun Oct 05, 2014 2:47 pm  

Some very unusual choices. Cooper, Joel, Burgess and Sarginson being the more comical ones. How would people see England line up then?

Re: Saints' board England 24 man squad. : Sun Oct 05, 2014 5:11 pm  

My concern is who is going to kick the goals? Those in that squad who can kick don't look like being first choice in their position, apart from perhaps Matty Smith and he's been very hit and miss this season.

Re: Saints' board England 24 man squad. : Sun Oct 05, 2014 5:13 pm  

Meefy wrote:

My concern is who is going to kick the goals? Those in that squad who can kick don't look like being first choice in their position, apart from perhaps Matty Smith and he's been very hit and miss this season.

Hasn't Matty smith kicked most goals this year?

Re: Saints' board England 24 man squad. : Sun Oct 05, 2014 6:29 pm  

St pete wrote:

Hasn't Matty smith kicked most goals this year?

I think so, but he has also missed the most. Think he averages just under 70%. Apparently Widdop kicked for the Dragons this season so he will be an option I guess

Re: Saints' board England 24 man squad. : Sun Oct 05, 2014 6:31 pm  

Meefy wrote:

I think so, but he has also missed the most. Think he averages just under 70%. Apparently Widdop kicked for the Dragons this season so he will be an option I guess

Widdop is a pretty handy kicker from what I've seen, think he hits about 75-80% off the top of my head.

Re: Saints' board England 24 man squad. : Sun Oct 05, 2014 8:23 pm  

Smith isn't good enough to be England's goal kicker sadly. He's kicked the most goals because he's playing in a side that scores a lot of try's.

Gareth Widdop will kick the goals. If he's not playing I'd get Ratchford in the side.

Re: Saints' board England 24 man squad. : Sun Oct 05, 2014 8:42 pm  

Widdop was the main kicker this year but only averaged around 66% according to this http://stats.rleague.com/rl/scorers/pla ... iddop.html

Widdop was the main kicker this year but only averaged around 66% according to this http://stats.rleague.com/rl/scorers/pla ... iddop.html

Re: Saints' board England 24 man squad. : Sun Oct 05, 2014 8:54 pm  

Eastbourne Warrior wrote: Widdop was the main kicker this year but only averaged around 66% according to this http://stats.rleague.com/rl/scorers/pla ... iddop.html Jeez, last thing we need. We need all the 2's we can get!

Eastbourne Warrior wrote: Widdop was the main kicker this year but only averaged around 66% according to this http://stats.rleague.com/rl/scorers/pla ... iddop.html Jeez, last thing we need. We need all the 2's we can get!

Re: Saints' board England 24 man squad. : Sun Oct 05, 2014 10:36 pm  

McBanana is a bloody useless, clueless, incompetent fool. How he is in a job is beyond me. Doubt Wigan are happy having 7 players in the squad, you can expect wigan to start slowly next season! No place for Makinson is frankly outrageous as well.
its good for the saints club that we have no players represented, as our players will get a longer rest and better preseason , but for England to have no players from the team that finished top and are in the GF is bizarre at best