If I have one criticism of Steve Mc on Saturday it's that he still had George Burgess on at the end of the game. At that stage he needed Ablett more than a prop. Mobile defender rather than strong ball carrier. George, who Bulls fans will remember, tires very quickly and he was always going to give a penalty away. Ablett could have taken the ball up as effectively at that stage and he would certainly have been more mobile. But it's only a small criticism.

And of course, any Australian coach would love to employ the England national coach in a junior position, just so he can be ordered around and the Aussies can reinforce their feelings of rugby superiority over England.

Having had a shed load of abuse from my friends in Oz today I am pretty certain any Pom heading over there for the next few years will be strapped down and forced to watch highlights of the current ashes tests!

Just do what the Aussies do when their national team gets a whupping, state that no-one in the country gives a toss about that minority sport.

To be fair, it's pretty difficult to know how McNamara is actually rated by the people who matter in the game, so I couldn't say how likely, or not, he would be to get a Super League job right now - I guess it would depend on what was available anyway. One thing I'd be totally certain of though, is that the opinion of the know nothings on some of the boards won't figure very highly in any club's plans.

I certainly go along with the idea that experience in the NRL can only be for the good, particularly in his personal development, but in an England situation, well we've had an Aussie coach and several others working within the SL environment without any great success so I'm not convinced it's essential. The players though, now that is a different story...

The players?
I thought he drove them to drink