While I appreciate the 2 halves these days are fairly interchangeable, Lomax, Williams and Croft are still all 6s, and therefore could arguably be better compare against Trueman than Clifford.
Out of Pearce, Dodd and Sezer, I wouldn't take any of them over Clifford right now. Pearce is the best of those 3 but is 34 years old so I wouldn't want him based on that.
But I do like Dodd. He looked great last year before his season ended early. Haven't thought much to him so far this season though. Right now Clifford is a better player but I do hope Dodd kicks on and becomes our England number 7 for many a year, because God knows we need one.