Whilst we have no doubt that he is a top coach, is he the right man for England? Hugely technical, is this what the elite England players need? Surely they are all aware of the game and their individual style of play.

Wouldnt we be better at this level with a Bluey style coach, who's mantra is spirit, team togetherness and pride?

The facts are that England have underperformed under Smithy. Will he be coach after the four nations?

Underperformed? He's coached two tournaments, one we won by a huge margin, the other we were awful. See how we finish this tournament first.

Im not interested in joke games against weak mid season French side's and Wales.

On Friday, I thought we were poor. After watching the game at the Stoop last night, I'm not very confident.

The World Cup was rubbish. He still has to prove it at this level.

Who mentioned France and Wales?

Garry Schofield should be given the job.

The WC was rubbish but I put that mainly down to the players not performing more than anything Smith did wrong. Its a worry to me that we didnt dominate the French more and I think that was a mistake by Smith in not having another forward on the bench in place of Eastmond. Im hoping he changes that for the next two games.

Whatever happens in this tournament I would want Smith to stay as England coach. We need a more long term view than we've previously had.

you think bluey has won 2 grand finals and a tri nations by being into team spirit and togetherness?

he is a lot more clued up than some s give him credit for on the technical side.

puig aubert summed smith up perfectly for me. very clever coach who often trys to be too clever. i think peacock said roughly the same in his book.

i just think he's a pr1ck myself

Neither was Richie. A test series whitewash against the soon to be World Champions perhaps buy not Wales and the French.

The bit I remember from Peacocks book was that he called Smith a genius.

Why?

Instead of concerning ourselves if we have the right man for the job, shouldnt we be asking ourselves do we have the right players and systems in our game to create and keep these players?


I think we all know that answer

You cannot polish a turd. No matter how much the Chuckle Brothers get into a frenzy of SL and the players being World Class, the real deal was on show last night.

correct


Tony Smith can only work with the standard of players available to him

Is Steve Mcnamara the left man for England?