Tom Briscoe ? Was gaining on Inglis. The Smith should of been taken off or McGuire with Eastmond replacing them.

Tom Briscoe was given no chance due to the ineptity of Lee Smith, but yet the young man gets the blame for it and is subbed. Not saying Briscoe wasn't poor, but he was given zero chance and was the scapegoat.

His confidence must be shattered, nice one Smith.

How many international games have you managed?

How many games have you coached?

Easy to say ''....he should of'' after the horse has bolted.

Personally thought Briscoe had reasonable stint on the pitch, the bit where he knocked the ball back into play to avoid 40/20 kick was good quick thinking.He will be wiser for the experience. Maybe only in the England setup because there isn't too many other quality English centres / wingers available.

Hope he doesn't take it to heart - no problem with him, It was the Simth and Smith farce that was a problem!

I've coached games for a few years now and I called it after the first try where Smith was in no mans land something should have been changed and it just showed Tony Smith's ineptness as an international coach doing nothing at all about it and his decision not to do anything about it until half time is what cost England the game.

I have gotta say i have not been impressed with Smiths man management so far.

last week he took Moore off after a couple of mistakes ( but he seemed a bit out of it after a heavy tackle) and then did not bring him back on.

This week he takes off Briscoe who did nothing wrong and leaves two players on Smith and Mc Guire who were defensive liabilities.

I hope he does not screw up the confidence of two potentially very good players who could be England players for a long time.

who have you coached and by the way no player in this earth would have stoped a couple of those Aussie trys.

The only ting Briscoe should have done was to go towards Inglis when he made the break in the first half, first and foremost, the danger is the guy who is carrying the ball. He should have come off his wing and tried to close down Inglis.

Apart from that he did nothing at all wrong, and didnt deserve to be taken off at all.

Briscoe will learn, he got left out to dry when our defence stayed rooted in the middle of the pitch several times, I agree, Lee Smith and McGuire where of no help to him what so ever.
He played right in front of us in the East stand, he got a knock with about 7 minutes left in the first half, didnt look bad, but the lad was in some discomfort.

If a try can be scored, a try can be stopped.

I have to agree, high in the stand you could see our poor defence structure, our right hand side was shot to bits, they had two extra men down that side several times, the Aussies used the same moves 12 months ago, Tony Smith has learned nothing from that mauling.

An unbaised opinion would be that he showed his lack of experience. He was not invloved in the defence at all, when other wingers would have pushed in and condensed the space he stayed glued to the touchline. I rate him as a player and I think he has a big future ahead, but he's not ready yet and his lack of game time this year really showed.

You can bag Lee Smith all you want but for some inexplicable reason he there was no second row on the right side of defence leaving him alone against what the Aussies regard as a centre who is better than Mal Meninga. You wouldn't have that formation at SL club level let alone against Greg Inglis and Billy Slater.

Tony Smith made the right correction at half time. A shame he didn't do it after 20 minutes.