Wane has completely discredited himself as an international coach with his comments on the omission of Jake Connor, siting lack of consistency and a lower than his outstanding best v saints. What's his rationale for picking Trout and McDonnell (who were average last weekend) amongst others then? 

er, cos wane is a useless pr* ck?

I'm OK with leeds players not being picked less chance of injury and will also get a full pre season.  Let's get our team sorted and then worry about our players not not being picked. And if we do want to beat the Australians we need the best. And as good as Conner has been I don't see him been that good

Good grief https://www.alloutrugbyleague.co.uk/news/england-shaun-wane-ashes-kangaroos-1240499

Good grief https://www.alloutrugbyleague.co.uk/news/england-shaun-wane-ashes-kangaroos-1240499

Inspiring 

Wane's ignoring Connor is nothing new. 
Wasn't the feeling that it was as much to do about his off field performance as much as on field?


Obviously he is in form and playing well at the moment when Williams clearly isn't. Playing the Aussies another matter altogether. Whilst he is fast between the ears he must be the slowest 6 in Super League. Whilst he can get away with it in SL he most certainly won't in an International. 


Connor's other "attribute" of winding players up sometimes works in SL, in an Ashes series it won't. With his dodgy temperament and an Aussie ref the outcome of a spat between Jake and an Aussie player would be disastrous for him and the team.  


Waney will go with Williams, Lewis & Smith as his half backs and may use Lewis off the bench at 9. Connor may get in if there's an injury to any of those three but otherwise I think he'll miss out. 

If a key attribute for international RL is temperament then there's no way Lewis will be anywhere near an Ashes squad, right? 

Is it certain it'll be an aussie ref for the Ashes?  I've not seen an announcement on that.

I think there is a case for including Connor in the squad. IMO he's probably not good enough defensively to be a top international half-back. We know Wane didn't pick Leeming in the past for this reason.

That said, England need to challenge offensively. They won't win much with the equivalent of Frawley in the halves...

I can understand why Connor may not have been selected, however, the excuses given for not selecting him are daft. Jake had an average game against Saints and so is not selected but Harry Smith and George Williams who have been average all season get selected.