Indeed. Tony Smith is actually a better coach than I gave him credit for. Surrounding himself with numpty assistants in Lowes and McNamara can only make him look better.

don't forget radlinski

Honey, the theory's a good one, but Im thinkin' you'll be hard pushed to find some up to the task

Bet you were sick as a pig when the numpties beat NZ and qualified for the Final. A sure way to recognise numpties, if you ask me.

You're going too easy on them. Best we can hope to do at this stage is fourth bottom, disgraceful.

Indeed. Far too much optimism and positivity on this board these days. Totally unacceptable and needs correcting urgently. What we all need is regular unremitting doses of depressing pessimistic negativity so we can all get back to the lowest common denominator of abject misery. Being thoroughly gloomy and negative all the time is the key to a long and happy life, and the time-honoured means of winning popularity and influence, and its jolly well about time everybody recognised that.

Nobody was aking me? Nobody was asking me what?

If requests are necessary, who the hell asked you for your asinine and jaundiced contribution?


What sarcastic claptrap.

What we are talking about, to date, is the great progress the England team has made in knocking out NZ (the World Champions, who drew with Australia) and making a Final. To most that is already over-achieving for this young and untried squad.

They might even not beat Lockyer, Inglis, Slater & Co. Still to most, the performances of the likes of Burgess, Tomkins and Eastmond have us actually looking forward to the next 10 years of internationals with hope and anticipation.

Regardless of the outcome of the Final, your depressingly unsurprising take on the victory v. NZ is sadly par for your curmudgeonly course. What do you do for fun - pull the wings off beetles?

No one said that requestes were neccessary, but, if you can try reading for once, you said.......

If I came on here saying "I avoid people from ethnic origins because I'm scared of been infected" I'd be booted off and called a racist but you obviously think it's hilarious to take the out people with ginger hair?

I bet parents of kids with ginger hair don't find it funny.

I'm sure parents of the Ginger people understand

Aww, your life must be so dull.

My Dad's a chinese man, so I think your argument kind of falls over..

I have a far from dull life, I just find it very inappropriate and offensive. You wouldn't make on racist comments here so why make prejudice ones?