the big things hurting england
1. the league full of reserve grade nrl players nathan wood, brent grose, henry fafilfi, scott donald the list goes on.
2. the slow movement of france toward being a top tier international team,
this is a major reason why the english play no one in there domestic season.
3. the promotion/relegation the sooner it goes the better, come 2009 teams will finally put time into bringing up young engilsh kids & not flying over has beens or never wases, the young kids playing in britain have potential showed by there junior teams perfromances vs aussies.
what needs to happen in england
1. more national team players willing to play in the nrl to better game rather than go for the easy cash in super league.
2. get rid of dead wood in english side, start with new generation, newton drop, senior drop, gleeson (what a sh*t defender) drop.
blood rooney as the new halfback has great kicking game with mcguire the playmaker, atkins & yeaman centres, calderwood to the wing & blood young ashton in the backs some where. love the new crop of forwards hock, ellis & sean o louglin very impressive while roby must be the starting hooker with diskin or alker off the bench.