Have to disagree, England and fifita when on form are our best forwards, I watched then come off the bench to batter Wigan, again allgood not doing the minutes, England averages 60 mins plus, and his defence is very strong, we look better when he is on with either Huby or big Dave, he's in top 3 for me, until others have the fitness to do more than 10-15 mins spells here and there.



Yes maybe not as influential as last season due to he was our only big forward and carried the forwards, so it's good to see others step up, next few weeks will see with big Dave in the stands, again IMO.

My sentiments exactly

My thoughts also



His form has being improving each game since he came back, the build back up to 100% can take longer for different players (and also depending the injury)



Tomorrow is a massive game for us and I fully expect England to really stand up and be counted tomorrow

Timing, not easy to get back.

I agree with you, and as we all know you can interpret stats in a number of ways to make a point however the average gain one does take some of that into account and as I said his average gain is the lowest of the props.



Just looked back at last year to compare and discovered I had got England's wrong for this season. It should read:

England:

Tackles 259

Marker Tackles 44

Missed Tackles 23

Tackle Busts 5

Carries 136

Metres 819

Average Gain 6.02



Compared with last season where his average gain was 6.04



So actually his average is very similar to last year where most of us thought he did a really good job. Maybe it's just down to the fact that others appear to be making more yards this year that makes his stats look worse.



Having said all of that I know that he is coming back from injury and seems to be improving with each game so let's just give him some time.

When he was fit and in form last year, he appeared to be making a lot of yards and taking a lot of tackling, attracting quite a few defenders in to stop him. I thought he was very good at that point. As you say, he is recovering from injury. But he doesn't seem quite that player at the moment. There's no reason why he shouldn't get back there though