Nonsense. Best side lost today and Mcnamara for once picked the right team to do the job IMO.

Would have liked to see Burrow on the field for longer though, and why the hell didn't Sinfield drill the ball into touch on England's last set?!! would have prob been game over. Other than that he played well.

Gutted

No

What a kn.b you are mystic Eddie.
Fantastic game of rugby league , gutted for the England team and management.

Erm how not? I was being generous in giving them third given as they may have lost out to Fiji in a 3rd and 4th place play off.

England had two tough games, and lost them both. Home wins against the might of Ireland, Fiji and France hardly constitutes a success now does it? Given that the players themselves went on record as saying that anything less than the final was failure I hardly see how you think it is not?

McNamara's remit would have been the WC Final at least. Given that only 2 out of 3 teams were ever gonna get there and they are the spare part, he failed. Simple.

Many thanks.

You can always rely on his teams to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The man is a curse.

That said, cracking game.

Best England/GB performance for years, for 78mins.

A few England players looked to be over celebrating when we re-gained possession for the last time. The concentration seemed just a tad lacking from then on. The ball should have gone into touch on our last play and then we had the high tackle and the player running out of the line.

Magnificent performances from Sam and Graham.

I can't argue with how we performed today. But Macca has had 4 years at this and has failed at it.

Fantastic game. That finish was incredible but also heartbreaking. I feel it (the result) had a massive effect on the atmosphere for the Australia game.

My only question as regards to Steve Mac's strategy was why we only used 3 of our 4 subs?!

Would hae won if Brough was playing.

Sinfield was outstanding up until he lost his composure with 1 minute to go. Why on earth didn't he drill the ball into touch instead of booting it to the winger? And the shooting out/poor attempt was just diabolical.

He undid all the great work he put in to set up 2 tries -_-

Going forward Sinfield was incredible today. Complete amateur in those final 90 seconds though.

Ah ha, using all our subs bench is what they would have expected us to do. The man is a tactical genius.

Potentially. We'll never know. I'm really proud of all the players today.

Thought Seinfeld had a great 78 minutes and should have drilled the ball to touch. Saying that had Burgess not gone high we would have won. Can't decide if Seinfeld should have come out of the line or not at the end. If he makes the tackle he is a hero. Thought Hall and Cudjoe were the weak links in what was a superb performance for 78 minutes.