Re: Your 24 man England squad - Centre : Tue Sep 30, 2014 5:28 pm  

St pete wrote:

Sargison can't tackle and would get crucified at international level

I would have agreed early on in the season but the second half he has been good. Don't forget that he had to get used to a completely different defensive system than what he had been used to, and he's still only 21.

Re: Your 24 man England squad - Centre : Tue Sep 30, 2014 5:49 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

I would have agreed early on in the season but the second half he has been good. Don't forget that he had to get used to a completely different defensive system than what he had been used to, and he's still only 21.

Fair enough, I suppose you see him more than me.

Re: Your 24 man England squad - Centre : Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:17 pm  

That list makes quite depressing reading.

Re: Your 24 man England squad - Centre : Wed Oct 01, 2014 7:32 am  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

That list makes quite depressing reading.

Inglis and co must be running scared or our fearsome centres

Re: Your 24 man England squad - Centre : Wed Oct 01, 2014 9:32 am  

Saint Simon wrote:

Inglis and co must be running scared or our fearsome centres

I don't think Inglis and co. would even need to run. maybe a fast walk would be enough

Re: Your 24 man England squad - Centre : Wed Oct 01, 2014 10:01 am  

I don't think I've ever seen this country with such poor centres and lack of depth. Obviously Reed would be in if fit alongside Watkins which is very good but after them it's a massive drop in quality

Re: Your 24 man England squad - Centre : Wed Oct 01, 2014 11:14 am  

Watkins
Atkins
Shenton

Re: Your 24 man England squad - Centre : Wed Oct 01, 2014 12:08 pm  

St pete wrote:

I don't think I've ever seen this country with such poor centres and lack of depth. Obviously Reed would be in if fit alongside Watkins which is very good but after them it's a massive drop in quality

We're not in a great state, but I think we've been worse off fairly recently. I still have nightmares about Richard Horne playing at centre for England over in Aus. I also think it's fairly balanced out by the much better standard of winger that we have now compared to a few years ago.

Re: Your 24 man England squad - Centre : Wed Oct 01, 2014 2:14 pm  

Really our centres are better than in recent years. Still nowhere near as good as you'd hope but at least we're not having to pick Lee Smith and Kirk Yeaman anymore... Or Paul Sykes *shudder*

Re: Your 24 man England squad - Centre : Wed Oct 01, 2014 2:29 pm  

Just wait till Ben Crooks rips it up at Parramatta and shows us he's the best in the world..