and why did you think england would get a flogging?

this exiles team had only been together a short time and that gruop of players havent even played a competitive game together as a team before


if anything the poms should have been handing the flogging out

Why was it disallowed? It wasn't offside or a dangerous tackle, hence no penalty defence.

aye,i will give you that,benji played a blinder.

because although in the forwards i dont think were bad,i thought the flair of hodgson,chase and lealuia would produce more then us,especially without brough and roby.

I'm glad more than anything that we seem to have finally got a way of improving our playing standards in mid-season - the Exiles celebrations at the end showed how much they bought into the concept and it's definitely something that we should continue with and improve.

We have learnt far more in defeat than we ever would against any other side bar Aus/NZ. A couple of players who I previously thought weren't up to scratch at this level have handled the occasion well, namely Wilkin and Carvell. Westwood was outstanding defensively and Robinson was smart out of dummy half, a perfect foil for Roby when he comes back into the fold.

There were also some shocking performances however - I hope I'm wrong and I appreciate that he's had a bad injury, but on the evidence of the last two weeks against Saints and the Exiles it looks like father time has caught up with Peacock. The differences in the halfbacks was striking - Sinfield was way off the pace and surely cannot ever play in the halves for England again, and Myler did nothing to excite with ball in hand either, a great support player but did little more than catch and pass to the next man and we need much more from our 7. Compare and contrast with the Exiles, Leuluai was barking away left and right non-stop calling plays, and Chase looked dangerous every time he touched the ball, he put up an outstanding performance. You can't really judge our 1-5 as they got no decent ball whatsoever.

So how often has a half back combination of Myler and Sinfield player together? Especially with a hooking partnership of McIllorum and Robinson? Yeah they've played TONS together.

Thats where England looked poor tonight, I thought they did "ok" defensively, but our halfbacks were none existant. I was particularly looking forward to seeing Danny Brough play, unfortunate for the lad, and Lomax should have definately been in ahead of Sinfield.

i just wish we'd play with more flair though.i dont know if we'll beat em playing the conservative game,as they can do the graft, its the ball play that beats us.we need more off the cuff players

Had no choice tonight, we had no halves at all.

Still think we need to go back to a part time England coach. No quality coach is going to take that job over a full time super league one. (Although even then, there aren't that many good british coaches in sl)

Myler needs to get involved loads more at 1st receiver to be an international half. He may be able to float in and out of a game with Briers as his partner in the halves for wire but that does not cut it at international level. He is no organiser.

Macbanana should have played crabtree instead of peacock and brown should have had a call up. No proper recognized half back in the squad- shameful.

Erm, Myler? He didn't play well mind, but he is a recognised half back.

Presumably it was disallowed because Sam Tomkins, International Fullback dropped the ball. Unless I missed something, it was a terrible decision and the VR would have given it all day long if called on.

'Exiles' is now trending on twitter! Ranked higher than Prince Philip and Roberto Martinez!

Manu for England!