Players looking miles out of the depth?

feel really sorry for Tom Bricoe every try Austraila have scored he has been left high and dry by Smith, wot is Smith doin he is never in position always leaving Tom with 3 players to cover.

Fiji and PNG are better than England.
How bad are they?
I thought a few here said the English pack was going to DOMINATE the worst pack Oz has ever sent over?
Rugby League in England is on its last legs.
Burgess once again proves he has nothing but a high shot.

Australia will have to have an intense training session this week to get back up to scratch after this light training session

England should try playing rugby league

Wilkin would have put in a better performance at loose. Ellis would have been better in the centres.

Wrong.

The [iInternational [/igame in England is on it's last legs - but then again, we've been lame since the 1970's in that regard.

Every English player is out of their depth. We are light years behind the Australians, still.

Are you watching Inglis? Have you seen the size of him? Whoever was on that right hand side wouldn't have made the blindest bit of difference.

It may change in the second half.
the BEST player in the NRL has barely seen the ball for 1 1/2 games if he goes looking for it all Hell may cut loose.

Why the hell Tony Smith has shoe horned Sinfield into the side?

Every fan of the game knows he's not good enough at this level with only a few blinkered Rhinos fans trying to defend his selection.

The arrogance of T Smith in ignoring Danny Broughs form and totaly overlooking him when his kicking and organisaton would have been massive for this England team.

L Smith should not have been selected once he said he was off to Unon, his commitment and focus has to be questioned. His defence and positioning are woefull and suggest he's looking after his lucritive Wasps salary rather than being focused on England.

Danny McGuire's been poor against both France and in the first 40 minutes against Australia, he's either got to show up big time or go the way of his club captain.

T Smith needs to forget planning for 2013 and start picking a team to do a job on the day. In the absence of a decent centre he should have put Ellis out there, he won't match Inglis on attack but he sure as hell would have been better defensively than L Smith.

S Briscoe needs to be replaced by Eatmond who just might get us beyond the 10mt line on a kick return.

Artie said right, we need to get tough and show some dog!

Eastmond for Smith in the second half? Saw him running out.

Spot on

Exactly they are just NOT good enough not near the Aussies level we just have to face it.
Theres no point blaming individuals.

Smith shouldn'thave gotten near an England shirt the minute he decided he had had enough RL.
McGuire can't defend and never has been able to so I'm not sure why people are shocked by this.
Briscoe has been unlucky to be landed with these two clowns but it has shown that he lacks the raw attributes to be an International winger (at this point in time) and it won't have done his confidence any good either.

On the plus side, NZ v Oz final should be worth a look.

Tom Briscoe off. Shame for the lad.