adequate replacements yes...but the biggest factor will be the all important spine who will all play for different clubs..even different states....
Ahh so what!
Most of the players will have played together or know each others style enough that after a few games they'll start to fall into each others patterns as if they've been playing on the same team for years.
Though it helps that Smith, JT, Slater, CC, etc all have heaps of experience playing together, it's really not a game breaker if the players have less experience playing with each other.
Besides, the Kangaroos spine has been constantly changing during their international careers, Johns, Karmichael Hunt, Lockyer, Buderus, Brett Stewart, Bird, etc have all been in the spine at one time or another in the same time that they have been in and out of the spine and it hasn't seemed to have caused the Kangaroos to much harm (if any at all).
anyway we'll see....its way too early to get into team selection....thats sept/oct talk lol
Injures allowing the spine will be almost exactly the same as it has been for last couple of years, but undoubtedly GI will get a couple of games at fullback and DCE will probably get a run as well at some point.
England isn't much harder to predict in the spine either, I'd bet that injures permitting Sinfield, Tomkins, Roby and Widdop will be Englands spine come the Four nations, unless that joker that you lot call a coach still hasn't learnt a lesson and plays Rangi bloody Chase again :lol:. I mean good god Chase couldn't even get a starting position with the Wyong Roos.
Personally if I was McNamara I'd be begging Brough to come back to play for England to replace Sinfield, but I can't see that happening.
ps just a quick one....can players retire from international yet still play origin?
I'm not 100% sure, but I'm pretty sure that if you retire from representative honors you retire from all representative honors. But as I said I'm not certain.
