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PostPosted: Thu May 14, 2009 3:21 pm 
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Bob-Marley wrote:McGuire's been off the boil for a while but who else is there to play 6? Pryce is superb in SL but like someone said the other day his dummy and step near the line just doesn't work at international level, saying this England on the whole don't do they.



Richard Horne has been fairly good this season. Why not give him a shot?






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Code13 wrote:Morley was a class act.

Not any more.


Morley and Fielden are the two most consistent props in the league.

Sadly for Fielden, he's on the wrong end of the scale, Morley is not.






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Gahan wrote:I'll give you Morley but Westwood?


If you look past his "aggressive" nature, he's one hell of a second rower. I certainly don't like his name to be missing in a Warrington squad.






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Think of it as kinda like the centrally contracted England cricket players or the RU elite train on squad rather than the England team

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Fully wrote:Richard Horne has been fairly good this season. Why not give him a shot?


Probably because the second you see a players club as Hull FC, you automatically think "injury".






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Don't see what the point of Morley is, he's on the slide these days. Westwood is in on effort. I don't think he's anything special but you can't knock his work rate.

The real worries are that we're thin on the ground for genuine international class backs and halfbacks. I'd like to see Pryce used as a centre at international level, I think he could be genuine international class in that position. But then I don't think we've got a single genuine international class scrum half or standoff.

Atkins is probably the best of the specialist British centres running about at the moment, so no complaints there. I'd like to see Richard Horne stake a claim at fullback, I think he's another one like Pryce who could be international class outside of the halves.






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No Lee Smith is probably the biggest shock. He’s no doubt the most talented English rugby league in this country on form.






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Damo-Leeds wrote:No Lee Smith is probably the biggest shock. He’s no doubt the most talented English rugby league in this country on form.


His absence is one of my major sources of consolation. Decent player for a touring party, where his versatility is useful, but not good enough in any one position for this sort of exercise. IMO, of course.

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Damo-Leeds wrote:No Lee Smith is probably the biggest shock. He’s no doubt the most talented English rugby league in this country on form.


That's because TS doesn't feel he has to work with him, he'll be in the squad, as will Pryce.






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Damo-Leeds wrote:Danny McGuire is world class, head and shoulders above Leon Pryce whose just a great pretender that looks good in games against mediocre opposition.

Like against you men at Knowsley Road. :wink:

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