They played well tonight, and have toughened up with two hard games having the stamina to last eighty minutes tonight. The forwards, especially Graham played well. Should give the aussies a hard game and hopefully spoil the Lockyear party.

Exactly. It wasn't Sinfield's finest hour at all. Defensively excellent as ever, but he did nothing with the ball in hand despite the domination. He was terrible in the first half.

Oh Gary26. You've got to feel bad after that. Everybody you named showed you up.

It was like there was two of him on the pitch, he was invloved in everything. Graham also was immense, and Ryan Hall is rapidly becoming one of my favourite players, he never puts a foot wrong.

I hope he does the same next week.

Thought England were good but New Zealand were pretty poor.
Widdop seems a wasted bench option as I don't think McNamara really knows how he wants to use him. Will be interesting to see who Ellis will come in for if he is fit next week.

i dont know how he does it.... he goes looking for the tackle all the time... he proper loves a good physical game...

when he is on his game he is great to watch.... you spend half the game saying 'what a tackle'.... i thought he was exceptional tonight.

just got back in - sinfield was a well desreved man of the match he directed the team well and place kicking was inpeccable. great all round team effort though - one or two posters on here have made themselves look very foolish tonight

the crowd in the stadium were great too. really got behind the team and were very positive (again some posters on here take note)

Heighington or Wilkin?

Aside from the offload I thought Carvell had a good game and his extra size could be handy in the final

I would expect Wilkin will drop to the bench with Carvell missing out.