Sinny’s pass for the Burgess try was sublime.

Tomkins was overawed in the first half but I have to say he was much better in the 2nd half. Obviously somebody told him he had to get his hands on the ball and do something.

I think McGuire has played himself out of a jersey. He was terrible.

There were positives in the 2nd half. I thought they put the cue on the rack and Ganson gave us a few piggy backs but overall something to build on. Smith will have to stop these slow starts though because the Kiwis are just as good and we run away early if we're not on our game.

I just dread what might be waiting for us in the final if we make it.

You have to understand the fool has an agenda and what he writes has no bearing on actual events.

He did it with Diskin after the Buderus injury. He came on here and slated him after the Warrington game thinking he could push his agenda. Yet everyone else could see he had a great game. He then had egg on his face come Grand Final night.

He did the same again today. Looked like England were going to get blown out and he though he would stick the boot into Sinfield and push his agenda, despite Sinny having a decent game 1st half.

Then England comes out 2nd half and shows he's not only our most creative player but is probably our best hooker as well leaving Ramrod looking like the backwards fool we all know he is.

He never learns does he.

On Saints v Leeds he wrote

This morning I had diarrhoea. The runny stools knew more about rugby than tinyrod. And they're better at Internet trolling.

Obviously he developed a leeds rhinos accent so that they would pass to him

It's pretty sad really!

Oh dear.

Don't be silly. The lad was out of his depth 1st half but really stood up 2nd half.

You could recognise the failings in your players despite your club bias (as I have with McGuire) or you can make dumb comments like that one.

Tompkins really stepped up in the second, Smith obv. woke him up at HT.

Eastmond look capable once he settled down and didn't have McGuire throwing tripe at him.

Hilarious to see Slater and Thurston - like spoilt children.

Forwards immense in the second.

There is hope.

Sinny showed his class in the second half and I was surpised Smith took him off just when were really threatening the impossible. And first half he obviously was expecting Brent Webb to be on the end of his offload near the line.
I was a bit baffled though as to why Roby was still on the pitch when Sinny was playing 9? Why not have another back row on?

One thing it did show is that we lack a creative 9 in England, and what a difference it makes when you have a footballer in that position as opposed to a scoot and pop merchant.

My take was that the Aussies were getting tired and not retiring, especially as we were getting over the gainline. To maintain their line speed they were not retiring 10.
McGuire did have a poor game - certainly not his Leeds standard, but first half he was horribly exposed in defence, but I'd still keep him in the team. His usual standard is way better than Tomkins or Myler.

Your comments sir, show your ignorance of the game and your stubborn bias against Sinfield who as usual was one of the most creative players on the field and proved you wrong once again. Sinfield was one of our top tackers as well.

We were always going to be vunerable out wide with their superb pacy backs. Playing Peacock in the 2nd row was a mistake as his lack of pace for the wide defence of this position had to be covered by Sinfield who also had to be the midfield organiser and also provided cover on the other wing. Impossible task. We looked better when Burgess came on for Peacock.

You also overlooked the positional errors by our inexperienced young right winger who left the gaps that made it look like Smith, McGuire and Sinfield were at fault. You didn't see it repeated in the 2nd half after the changes were made.

Too much to expect you to eat your words I suppose?

Excellent points. For Lokyer's try Sinfield had actually made a tackle on the left centre position so when the Aussies moved the ball right Mcguire, Smith and Briscoe were covering the whole right side - with no second row out there at all. I can't imagine any coach wanting to have Inglis running wide one on one at Smith (or frankly at anyone one on one).
Briscoe didn't really offer any input to the wide defence.
Sinfield nearly always defends inside the second row, but with Peacock playing 11 the problem was that he really wanted to be in midfield smashing Aussie forwards - so that's what he did.