You are talking utter poo.... Matty Smith should be nowhere near the squad and rightly so, shocking player and very over rated, i have never seen him have a excellent game. He always looks as though he is just going through the motions.

Two of Kiwis tries came from errors by Graham - maybe you need to take those red fee glasses off

Absolutely bang on.
Very poor policing of the ruck by Hicks, the Kiwis were getting away with murder.

Ultimately the game could have been drawn
2 excellent positions to set up a drop goal, the first one blown by spilling possession (which should have been a warning) and then the Burgess through the legs forward pass, when we could have set up the DG.
NZ end f set plays certainly left us with heaps of defence and generally we coped well with that but, they just about deserved the win.

A drop goal would have been kicked though, did Gale even play?

The only time Gale was allowed any input in the game was when England were roughly on the half way line and he had to put the hanging kick up. everything was orchestrated through widdop which he didn't get everything right aand lead to us being very 1 dimensional . We had 2 golden opportunities to draw the game but utterly shambolic game management cost us. We could have easily lived to fight another day but got what a deserved.

Again as I've witnessed for the best part of 40 years , we stood and admired rather than getting in their faces , at one point I thought they were going to start applauding them

That particularly applied to Johnson.

I think the gushing praise from the commentators was shared by some of our guys

Did I hear the commentator say something about Watkins being arguably the second best centre in the world, he isn't the second best centre in white.

Did Gale play?

Why did Sam think he could pull of tricks only Johnson could pull off. Just run forward let the playmakers do the tricks

I thought we played well, very well at times. A drop goal from one of the very best players in the world was the difference.

I don't know why everyone has to act like we've been hammered and try to find the faults in everything.

The truth is they ended sets better because they have the best short kicker of the ball I've ever seen play this sport and he was composed when taking the DG. We've probably not produced a better half back with the kicking game of Johnson in 121 years of this sport so calling for others (who are inferior players) to come in for Widdop and Gake and calling for new centres is just stupid!

Glad we've sorted this years scapegoat nice and early anyway!

On Watkins, he was no where near as bad as is being made out, I notice his defense isn't being questioned, thats because he kept his opposite number quiet. As has been said Watkins needs early ball or kate ball in space, it was also a bit criminal widdop passed to bateman with watkins in the clear at the end.

Overall it was a bit disappointing butee did lack direction, date I say it - we need a Sinfield type player in there!

The Red Vee glasses which had me suggesting Lomax should be dropped? Those ones? You do know Graham hasn't played for Saints for half a decade, right?

We won the second half though.

We may have lost the battle, but not the war.

Regards, salesman Kev.