Good post for the most part but I think it's harsh to say England bottled it. The word over here in NZ is that the better team lost on the day. Hard to fault England in many respects but the S. Burgess penalty on the 4th tackle with 60 seconds to go should never have happened, it wasn't even slightly high, it was blatant. England had that game won at that point.

Ban SL clubs from signing overseas stand offs, scrum halfs or hookers! Those are the positions we need better and deeper options in.

I think they panicked in the last minute, a team of winners would have just tackled and let the opposition kick up the field, England started to panic, ended up giving away a penalty, ended up stretch across the park and even the last gasp chance of pushing the try scorer further out by standing him up rather than going for the tackle happened. Push him another 10 ft further out and the kick was missable.

Any other game, Sinfield would have kicked the ball dead wasted a few more seconds forming the scrum! Why he kicked it infield only he knows.
England were the better more composed team for most of the game.

More like send every SL player to the NRL for experience!