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.

I wish them the best of luck and hope they are a success, but I can’t help but think this club would have a much greater chance of success playing in a League One South competition, as would the likes of Hemel, Gloucestershire All Golds, Oxford and any other club with semi pro ambitions.

I wonder if the Redcliffe Dolphins will sign any British Super League players, it’d be a missed opportunity for them if they don’t imo

The two happening simultaneously is ideal IMO

How many players in Scotland’s Six Nations squad were born outside Scotland? I can’t remember the number but it was a lot. I think the difference with Tonga is that there are plenty of Rugby League fans with Tongan heritage whereas there are not plenty of Rugby League fans with Scottish heritage. That’s the only reason Tonga have the support they do at Internationals and Scotland don’t. Oh and Tonga have recently become one of the best International sides in the World, if Scotland Rugby League were to beat England, New Zealand and Australia this year I’m sure there’d be plenty interested in going to watch them.

With Herbie Farnworth, Dom Young and Harry Newman England will have quality centres for the next 10 years.

One thing I like about the NRL is that all clubs name their match day 17 before any games of the round are played, I really think we should take this on in Super League. Injured players can still be swapped out last minute. https://www.nrl.com/news/2021/03/09/nrl-team-lists-round-1-squad-announcements/

Is Rugby League played at Universities in Scotland?

I’m willing to stake good money on Wakefield not building the stadium, they will point the finger of blame at Covid. In 2022 more plans will be released, nothing will happen, then a new excuse. I genuinely hope I am wrong, the stadium is not fit for Championship rugby never mind Super League.

Do University sides count to meet this criteria. I don’t know if Edinburgh or Glasgow University have teams?

How many development officers are there up in Scotland? I read they appointed one in 2019, is he the only one or was he added to a team. If the World Cup makes a significant profit hopefully some of the money goes towards aiding their development.