I felt really sorry for Tom Briscoe. He was unfortunate to have Laurel and Hardy defending on his inside and a slow prop forward at second row who couldn't cover across.

As for my side i'd go-

Briscoe(no doubts about his place now, he was superb)
Smith( T Briscoe unlucky to miss out)
Eastmond
Shenton
Hall
Sinfield
Tomkins
Graham
Roby
Peacock
Ellis
Westwood
Burgess

subs
Morley
Crabtree
Wilkin
Myler

You think ?

I thought not only did he look slow, but he was so badly positioned for most of the Aussie kicks that by the time he got to the ball and picked it up, the chase had got him.

I thought Sinfields distribution from hooker was miles better than Roby's. I thought Tomkins and Crabtree were magnificent.

Briscoe
Smith
Eastmond
Shenton
Hall
McGuire
Tomkins
Morley
Sinfield
Graham
Peacock
Ellis
Burgess

Carvell
Crabtree
Roby
Westwood.

Very encouraging second half. McGuire took the wrong option on numerous occasions but I'd stick with him for next week and at least try and keep some fluidity at half back. You don't see Australia chopping and changing their main pivot positions every game.

Speaking sense as ever Roy

In the first half Briscoe (S) was massivly out of positionin all his kick returns, he was making the already good kicks look better.

Second half, he was ok though.

I'd agree with that. The other option is to put McGuire or Eastmond there to get a better kick return.

Id put smith at fullback

Thought he was superb in the 2nd half making huge ground and supporting well.

First half he did ok i thought. There wasn't much he could do about any of the trys but didn't seem to do anything wrong.

His place should be well safe anyway.

Me too, and that's saying something after the amount of bad words I launched in his direction for his shocking performance today.

He's a much better attacking fullback than he is a defensive centre.

I agree

Sinfield's distribution was a lot better than Roby's. He had the forwards running onto the ball as well instead of giving them a standing start a few times like Roby did first half.

Its a shame we cant produce a hooker in the mould of Smith or Farah who are proper number 9's.

Also known as Diskin

It would be harsh to blame briscoe i think it was more of a case that smith played better at wing than centre and eastmond looked really dangerous at centre.

The thing is he isnt even a centre, he was only playing there because leeds had no one else.

And he's only playing at centre for England because Smith holds a grudge against Martin Gleeson.

Gleeson even at 50% is the best right centre the country has.

Absolutely, it's nice to see a few coaches on here being shut up today.

Probably the same people bagging Crabtree before the game, he was comfortably one of our best forwards today.