M Vunipola
J George
K Brookes
Attwood
Launchbury
Itoje
O’Connor
Beaumont

Simpson
Ford
May
Nowell (I know I know but I reckon he could do a job there, and the alternatives aren’t exactly demanding selection)
Joseph/Daly
Watson
Brown

12 scares the living daylights out of me tbh. Burrell is in awful form, 12Ts isn’t even playing 12 for his club that much any more and in the games I watch in the AP no one else is really putting their hand up, apart from maybe that chap at Irish (Williams is it?). Hence my selection of Nowell, everyone moans about him not having the pace for wing but he’s tough, a strong runner who always seems to beat the first man, defensively sound and seems to make the right decisions all the time. Really impressive at 13 for the Chiefs and see no reason why he couldn’t make that move inside.

Tbh at the moment the way Farrell is playing I wouldn’t even be too bothered if Jones played him at 12.

Yeah Hughes looks unbelievable, but as this was a 6Ns dream team I couldn’t include him! Haven’t got Billy V in as I think the back row will need to be more mobile than it has been and Beaumont is a good compromise until Hughes qualifies.

I echo Wreckers concerns about Ford but I think I lot of his issues shouldn’t be there in an England shirt. He SHOULD be behind a fairly dominant pack and he should have options to get front foot ball. I think baths biggest issue at the moment is not having anyone to take the ball up in midfield and get quick, go forward ball to suck in defenders and create a quick platform. Baths midfield are awesome at broken field play but when there’s no options they don’t have anyone to truck it up and go again. For England Ford should have that. It doesn’t even need to be the 12, a quick mobile back row could answer that.

Not so much a centre, just a big carrying option. They had a couple but it completely backfired on them and they both left (Fearns and Burgess). Floew is an awesome player but not a big carrier and Houston isn’t quite the same this year.

Bearing in mind the lofty ambitions they have (you were going to pump Wales and Oz and avoiding the cheating All Blacks meant anything could happen,remember?)it is heartening to see that the Engerland supporters are still in denial and a lot of them seem to think they have two international class players for every position. I am trying to think of one successful player in white..sorry; to “wear the red rose” from the campaign. Oh wait,got it; Launchbury won MotM 😛
On a serious note,Burrell is justifying the logic of dropping him and Lawes,Cipriani and Marler the hinge aren’t good enough,either because of form just now or ever. Picking players because they didn’t play in the WC doesn’t mean they are any good.

Tell you what; we will lend you a 7 and a centre,we have a few spare.

I think we’ll be alright, but thanks. This conversation is probably better had after the 6 nations no?

Beating Japan, the USA and Samoa (just). Heady heights indeed.

I’m amazed how poor a reputation Tom Youngs seems to have with any non Tigers supporter. His line out stats are as good as any, and better than most, seems to go brilliantly in the scrum with Leicester ( with Cole who’s also getting stic) despite being England’s only decent scrummager and thier best 7 at the World Cup) and is in a class of his own in open play.

I also think that mostly the same players should / will perform so much better in the six nations it’ll shock a few (Scots included)

That should get a bite…. 🙂

No messing around England-just stick kvesic at 7. 😉

Defining feature of a good hooker.

Well here we are 4 weekends before the 6N, and England don’t have a team yet. Some players are out of contention with injuries, and some so called certs have been benched at club level in favour of better players (Hartley for one), some other players seem to be weaving to Eddie Jones style (Cipriani/Itoje/Kruis/Daly/Kvesic) attacking play.

This is going to get interesting with Sarries unbeaten, Leicester going backwards and Exeter/Wasps/Quins/N’hamton all playing decent attacking rugby.

About time he made some decisions…

Yes sorry that was an error on my part.

Apart from playing the best rugby they’ve played for years and only having lost two games all season?

Granted we got humped at the weekend but then having rested a good chunk of the team it was kind of expected.

Yes a work in progress and is building for next WC there will be some losses some disasters etc, it is whether the paymasters will accept some defeats, whether the press will allow him the time to develop a team and most importantly whether england rugby fans can see the bigger picture or just turn on the team.

Anyone see Dr Jaws tweet about Brown 😆

Jamie Roberts @Jamiehuwroberts
Dear the Welsh.This guy wants you to know he’s actually an alright bloke.he’s keen to improve Anglo-Welsh relations

I wouldn’t worry. They’ve scraped by without the head coach picking the team for a while now by all accounts 😀

That somehow appears to be an entirely likely scenario. 😆