Oh dear.

Pack standing up, particularly in defence.

Roby poor - appeas rushed and error prone.

Backs just not up to this standard of rugby league.

Tompkins flat footed and has no one offering him any options.

Smith and Shenton garbage.

Boys against men.

New Zealand will be a repeat of this.

Tompkins off, Eastmond on.

It seems as if we have two different teams today, the first half team – clueless, inept and clumsy.

Then the team that turned out for the second half – organised, clinical and competitive.

Mcguire was awful. Good come back but England attack shape is still clueless

Much better second half performance with aspects to be optimistic about. Sinni and Burgess were the best players IMO for England. The right hand side looked stronger in the second half and I would play Smith and Eastmond again next week. Tomkins knocked socks off Myler's performance last week and was creating in the second half.
Crabtree deserves a position in next week's team.

He was a real highlight. The giant props that do well at club level often get exposed at internationl level, but he's as agile as they come as a prop. Must have offloaded on half his carries.

Next week:

Briscoe
Smith
Eastmond
Shenton
Hall
Myler
Tomkins
Morley
Roby
Graham
Peacock
Ellis
Sinfield

McGuire/Carvell
Burgess
Westwood
Crabtree

Word of caution on Tomkins. Now the Aussies and Kiwis have a bit of video on him he needs to find something different to his step off the left foot back to the right because he might find a big nasty antipodean forward waiting for him.

You mean passing?

the non exsistant organisation at pivot, no option runners and people being clattered in posission is embarrasing to watch. All off the cuff stuff which doesn't cut it

Psssst The game is over 80 minutes my friend.

Not the drubbing or loss of credibilty that some on here had hoped for.

Interesting comment in the piot match interviews..we dropped the "system" at half time and nilled them

Psst. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Most of what I said stands up.

If England were better in the second half how much of that was down to the Australians having the game won in the first.

It was looking every bit as embarrassing as last year at the mid point.

Dave Woods needs a reality check if he thinks the Aussies took part after the break.

Chance one gone role on next week.

Tony Smith should not be tempted to drop McGuire. Not his best game but he was horribly exposed in the first half without a second row defending in the right side channel.
I'd still have Smith either at FB or Wing. Tom Briscoe showed up like a kid with only a handful of games at SL level. One for the future maybe, but not yet.

I was unsure what Roby was doing still on the pitch for much of the second half with Sinfield playing 9 (and doing it rather well).