Steve McNamara wants England players focused on beating New Zealand

Steve McNamara wants England's players to ignore talk about his future and focus on claiming a series win over New Zealand on Saturday.

The match at Wigan's DW Stadium gives McNamara's team a second chance at sealing a series victory after a 9-2 defeat at the Olympic Stadium in London set up what is likely to be a tense decider.

McNamara's future as England coach could be riding on the result, but he is putting any thoughts of his own job to the back of his mind and wants his side to play without any more pressure than there already is ahead of such a big international date.

"It's not about me," McNamara said at the captain's run at the DW Stadium. "Every Test match is really important.

"Last week was disappointing for us, we knew that if we had won that game, we'd wrap the series up, well the stakes are the same this week.

"We've had good moments but we've not had sustained good moments and winning the series this time against the No 1 ranked team in the world would be a huge feather in our nest and hopefully the springboard for us repeating that next year."

McNamara is yet to name his team but a debut is possible for Huddersfield winger Jermaine McGillvary, while a recall is on the cards for scrum-half Matty Smith.

"There are a couple of new faces in there who can add something different to our team this week," he added. "We've looked at all the options in and around those areas and come up with a team that we're going to play. We won't announce that until kick-off.

"[Jermaine] has certainly trained unbelievably well. It's been great having him in the group and he can add something to the team if selected.

"He's tremendously hard to tackle, he can increase the speed of the ruck and his finishing close to the line has been impeccable all year.

"There haven't been many long-range chances in the games so far, it's all been pretty close-range, very tough attrition type play so Jermaine is in the equation based on some of those things he can do."

McGillvary is likely to displace Wigan's Joe Burgess on the right wing, while Smith could replace his Warriors team-mate George Williams at scrum-half as McNamara looks to add a spark to his mis-firing attack.

"We don't have to rip up the plan and find a different way to play," McNamara said. "As an England team, we've got a style where we've attacked over the last couple of years and we've really enjoyed attacking that way. Last week we didn't have much shape, we were one out."

England (probable): Z Hardaker (Leeds); J McGillvary (Huddersfield), K Watkins (Leeds), J Bateman (Wigan), R Hall (Leeds); G Widdop (St George Illawarra), M Smith (Wigan); J Graham (Canterbury Bulldogs), J Hodgson (Canberra), C Hill (Warrington), L Farrell (Wigan), E Whitehead (Catalans Dragons), S O'Loughlin (Wigan, capt).

Subs: J Roby (St Helens), T Burgess (South Sydney), M Cooper (St George Illawarra), B Ferres (Huddersfield).

New Zealand: R Tuivasa-Sheck (Sydney Roosters); J Nightingale (St George Illawarra), J Kahu (Brisbane), D Whare (Penrith), S Kenny-Dowall (Sydney Roosters); P Hiku (Manly), K Nikorima (Brisbane); J Bromwich (Melbourne), I Luke
(South Sydney, co-capt), S Moa (Sydney Roosters), K Proctor (Melbourne), T Harris (Melbourne), A Blair (Brisbane, co-capt).

Subs: M Taupau (Wests Tigers), B Matulino (NZ Warriors), A Glenn (Brisbane), L Brown (Penrith).