Sinfield didn't boss and control everything. Roby did that. Most sets outside the 20 Sinfield didn't even touch the ball as we kept it very simple, one or two man runs most times because we were making the metres.

Sinfield's role as a leader in the team is important and he was very strong in that regard last night. But man of the match? For giving a few talks under the post and having an adequate (If not amazing) kicking game? I'm not so sure. Tomkins shone last night, no player on the pitch was near him in my opinion. Beyond that you've got the pack who well and truly dominated the Kiwi pack. One of those players, Roby, JP, Graham or Westwood should also be ahead of Sinfield for MOM as well.

If you watch the first 30 minutes of the game when i made the criticisms of his performance he had been awful. He was taking the main playmaker role in their 20 and his choice of pass and timing was way off. He also put in a few nothing kicks on the last tackle. We were camped in their 20 and we came up with precious little in the way of threatening. The game should have been over after 35 minutes such was the control we had. He steadied after that, but I don't see how he could be considered MOM.

Was it his timing and choice of the pass, or the timing and run of the person he was passing to which was off? I remember him receiving the ball about 35meters out and pretty much stood there shouting and looking to see nothing set up whatseover. I thought everything we did which was good and which was planned came through Sinfield. Chase and Tomkins looked dangerous running at broken line, and breaking the line but it was obvious that the control of the game came from Sinfield. And it was a gameplan and mix which worked well.

I dont think NZ were that bad, i dont think there pack was dominated and I think Sinfield did exactly the right thing. A week ago we saw England dominate Australia for 20 mins, make a couple of stupid decisions and see the game start to slip away from them, This week we saw them dominate the first 20 mins, control it, not panic, and keep grinding away, not try and win the game in the first half and keep it tight and come away with the win.

Westwood for me, was massive in defence and carted it up all night. He shut down his side of the field.

Sinfield getting it was a joke. Aside from his conversions,as important as they were, I thought he was VERY avg. Poor passing, poor passing decision making and his cross field bombs were shockers (someone tell him they're supposed to come ddown on the try line, not 10metres out!)

I went for Yeaman, simply for those big hits he put in. His timing coming out of the defensive line and banging the NZ players was spot on all night and he put in some phenomenal hits. His hits in the first half were the most crucial, there were a couple of times when he came out of the line early, put in a brilliant hit and killed the NZ attack. If he hadn't couple out of the line NZ would have been in.

One of those bombs created a try.

Sinfield and Roby between them controlled that game. Some of these posts (claiming that Sinfield was average) are beyond laughable. I suspect there are people here that simply don't like the bloke.

I was particularly amused by the 'apart from his goalkicking' comment. I suppose the first 3 goals (all from the touchline) were probably of no significance... or the assist for Graham's try, or the kick leading to Hall's try(the 'shocker' that 'should have landed on the line').
So apart from having an important input in 20 out of the 28 points scored, consistently pinning the Kiwis back with a steady kicking game and a strong defensive effort to boot...., yeah...maybe you're right .... average at best.

Having said that I would have chosen Graham as MOM. Typically massive effort from him and a well-deserved try to boot.

Never in a million years was sinfield man of the match.Roby pi55ed it.

Roby

I went for the Big Dawg Ben Westwood

Who voted Widopp?

He wasn't one of the "stars" of the show but i thought Jon WIlkin had a very strong game.

His Mum.

Westwood
Roby
Tomkins

He was my second choice. He had a massive game.

Sir Kevin got my vote.

Just checked the stats and confirmed Sinfield's work in defence - 25 tackles and one miss.

Thought at the time that JJB had put a massive effort in and stats also confirm this: 28 tackles coming off ther bench and 10 carries at over 9 metres per carry.

Still not changing my mind about my MOM choice though -
James Graham - 33 tackles and no misses and a whopping 156 metres from 20 carries, including 2 busts and a line-break.