Spot on and down to the lack of structure you mentioned earlier. At times it's too obvious what's going to happen and there's a lack of runners and options. That's all too easy to defend against.

Yet when a coach tries to impose a structure, we get performances like the first half on Saturday.

England looked much better playing in a more "off the cuff" style in the second forty.

Sinfield not having the discipline to hold the line was the key ingredient in that disaster of a first half!!

The key ingredient was trying to play a compressed defence against a team confident in their own ability to move the ball from their right to left quicker than you can slide across to cover.

Whenever the ball was within fifteen yards of Australia's right touchline, there were no more than two or three England defenders to their right of the centre spot.

It wouldn't have mattered who England had on their right hand side, with that structure and the passing ability of Lockyer and Thurston they were always going to get killed.

Second half England spread a bit more and went more man on man, which didn't allow the Aussies to outflank them as easily.

The structure of the English defensive line - Sinnys fault.

The distribution of the ball from the PTB to the backs - Sinnys fault.

All the troubles in Afghanistan – Sinnys fault.

The current economic turndown - Sinnys fault.

Global warming - Sinnys fault.

Have I missed anything?

Truly awful attempt.

Did you once walk in on your mother fellating Sinfield or something?

He did and he was jealous. I'm just not sure who of.

We played to a structure in the first half



I thought the improvement in the second half was down to an increase in intensity and the plugging of the gaps on the right. That meant we got more ball. In the first when we had the ball there seemed to be no structure, just desperation passing and that led to errors.

Off the cuff is fine so long as the playmakers have runners and support, there was a bit more of that in the 2nd half. Thing is you do need a bit of structure at times, especially on the last play so people have an idea of what kick they're chasing/contesting.

If that little interplay with Tomkins had come off we'd all be saying what a pair of magicians they both are. Four points in it with five to go and England in the ascendancy. Something to think about.

So DM didn't have a ground breaking game. He's a confidence player etc etc.. he's also human.

4 minutes to go, little step, show and go, gas to the corner and all of a sudden he's the hero again. I reckon it's been like that for most of DM's domestic career. Wouldn't surprise me if it carried on that way Internationally too.

I think it's been raised already, but at 26 he still has an awful lot to give .

Glad I managed to make your signature, although I don't think I'll be needing to backtrack on it no matter how good Peacock looks against mediocre domestic opposition in 2010.