Sir Kevin Sinfield

Brilliant appointment, this will turn Leeds’s season around

Every country in every sport picks players who qualify using their heritage. If he qualifies and he’s the best available option get him in the squad, place of birth should not be a deciding factor, it’s simply do they qualify and are they good enough. Every country in the World Cup will have players who qualify on heritage. If Wane does go for this little Britain attitude and we have a poor World Cup I’ll be furious.

Spot on, Young should have a decision to make whether to represent Jamaica or England. When we have Hardaker, Marshall, Percival, Evalds, Lyne and Sarginson in the England train on squad, both Farnworth and Young should be in ahead of the lot of them imo.

He was born in Leeds, he should play for England

If a player makes themselves available to England, they qualify for England, and they are the best player available, they should be selected. There is no more criteria or further discussion necessary.

There will be a long list of NRL players eligible for England through parents and grandparents place of birth, it will go well beyond Jackson Hastings.

It’s true Pryce, and the other British players in the NRL and Australian lower leagues are a loss to Super League, but I’d much rather they go to the NRL than to Union. There isn’t a simple solution to this, the fact is the NRL has a salary cap of $10M (£5.4M) while Super League has a salary cap of £2.1M. The NRL can have a cap this high because their tv deal is worth $400M (£217M) a year, arguably their salary cap should be even higher. In comparison the Super League tv deal is worth £25M a year. We need to grow the game to increase the value of our tv deal, that means higher viewing figures, more people attending games live and more people playing the game to bring more money into the sport to allow us to increase our salary cap. I hope I’m wrong but I don’t think we’ll ever see the day again when we can match salaries on offer in the NRL.

Mark Percival, Toby King, Ash Handley, Paul McShane, Liam Watts, Danny Richardson and Matty Ashhurst have all made the Super League dream team since 2018. None of those players should make the England team either. The year is 2022, just because he had 2 good seasons in 2018 and 2019 should not get him into our World Cup side.

I agree but if he can get back to the player that he was, he’s better than Thompson, that’s what I meant by potentially George Burgess

Definitely Alex Walmsley, Mikolaj Oledzki and Tom Burgess. Potentially Mike Cooper and George Burgess.

God help us if Thompson is England’s best prop

No way Thompson is England’s best prop

No doubt Cornwall will struggle this year but it’s great they’re signing players from Cornish Rebels Rugby League, makes a mockery of the it’ll never work outside the M62 brigade.

Oledzki is ahead of Thompson for me, but yes we are relatively strong at prop. That England front row against the Tongans will be a brutal battle.

Despite all their doubters, Cornwall currently sit at the top of the table.