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George Williams picks Mikey Lewis' key qualities and highlights England dilemma

Picture by Paul Currie/SWpix.com - George Williams, left, pinpointed the best qualities of Mikey Lewis, centre
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England's team selection for the Samoa game will arguably be most interesting in the half-backs with George Williams in the mix with Mikey Lewis and Harry Smith.

And a fun video on England's official social media involved both men having to pinpoint each other's strengths - and it highlights what a tough choice coach Shaun Wane will be making in leaving one of Super League's star half-backs out of the starting line-up for the game against Samoa in Wigan tomorrow. Williams and Smith are men that Wane has turned to recently but Lewis has lit up Super League often this year on the way to winning Man of Steel.

Williams was asked to describe Hull Kingston Rovers star Lewis in three words and said quiet, humble and fun. Then he was asked for three words to describe Lewis as a player and said competitive, elusive and strong. Explaining the last one, Williams said "he is deceptively strong, he is really strong for his size".

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Asked about what he would take from Lewis' game, Warrington and England star Williams said: "Something that Mikey has developed, his long kicking game. It's developed over the last year or two and it's a strength of his game now." When asked the same thing about Williams, Lewis said he would take his short kicking game.

On more general points, the two men were asked who has impressed them the most this season from the England squad and Williams said Junior Nsemba, while Lewis picked out Liam Marshall. And, when asked who would score the most points out of the two of themselves in this series, Lewis said "probably George" - but Williams said "I don't know about that".

The mutual respect between the players was there to see, and them talking about each other's games highlighted that Wane is spoiled for choice in that area currently as England look to reach new heights.

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