Totally agree, the draw was rigged to give them a clear route to the final. He should have been sacked for squandering a huge chance for England to get to a WC final with all the potential that had for the wider sport.

I will concede that I may be ill disposed towards Wane based on the last time he tried to ply his club trade outside the Wigan bubble.

I think you're indulging in a bit of British exceptionalism here. GB may not have had to play Aus or NZ on the way to the semi final but the game has moved on since the 1990s and now Samoa and to some degree Tonga are both capable of beating us as well as Australia and NZ. To lose to Samoa in a close semi final was disappointing bit shouldn't have been unexpected. They had some excellent players in the side.

wanes selections, picking his mates when they were obviously wrong choices is his biggest failing. I can't see it stopping

Anybody heard anything beyond paper talk regards our bid to sign Watkins?

Sorry Tad but I'm just seeing the usual club based bias there.

you think mcillorum should have been picked? that's just for starters.
wigan are head and shoulders our best team, no issues there, but some selections and not just wigan players were a joke. Chris hill for another

Where is Chris Hill from? Oh yes…

Not for me and not convinced he'd give up a directorship at wigan in any case.
The model that developed wane as a coach - and Matt Peet too - is something we should look at though.

I'll give you that one but I thought Hill did alright in the world cup.

Hetherington to London Broncos LOL.

Didn't see that one coming