JJB usually and successfully leads our defensive line at speed, something that has been sadly lacking in his absence. He has admitted his mistake and perhaps he was trying too hard to turn the tide in his first game back after so long. This error was the same one that Sinfield made in the Word Cup and is something that most players are guilty of from time to time. Are you suggesting this makes Sinfield unintelligent too?

Another to add to the list...

SPOTY
Kiwis
November floods
Silverwood
Winter
Mindsets of Unconscious Complacency
Exuberance & Enthusiasm

If a player recognises mistakes but continues to make them then he isn't displaying the intelligence he allegedly possesses.

I criticised Sinfield for that effort on Johnson in the World Cup semi-final. Unlike the one on Friday though Johnson was at least the player posing the actual threat, as he was in possession, rather than a perceived one.

Sinfield was certainly not unintelligent at Super League level but was often out of his depth at international level and flustered into making unintelligent decisions. He was instrumental in England losing that World Cup Semi final against the Kiwis with two horrendous examples of flawed decision making and utter balls-up's under the strain of the pressure of international RL against world class opposition. He's not used to encountering such situations in a Super League context.

Some you win, some you lose. Sinfield's was a poor decision given England were winning. JJB's was also a poor decision although, in the context of that match, more forgivable. Sometimes you need to resort to desperation tactics to alter the momentum; it usually fails but it can turn the occasional game.