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. 

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.

He's all over the place.  

A better message from Wane would have been I've selected the squad as I see it, let's see how it goes, it's not set in stone and the door is open etc. Bland, yes, but far, far better from a player management perspective than what he came out with.  

Which was bizarre, nonsensical reasoning for not picking individual players, then his frankly idiotic rambling about some players not being good enough and they won't be in the final squad - which calls into question his judgement and begs the question why pick them in the first place.  

Whilst it is wrong on many levels that Connor hasn't been selected. It isn't a suprise. 

It's great for us, he will have an even bigger point to prove for the rest of the season. However, to be fair to Wane, Connor has only just in these last 3 months started to play very well, some others in the squad have been at their high level for a consistent longer period, but that's not saying i agree with the decision, but just some perspective.