Blimy I am glad we won after reading all the comments on hear I thought we lost the game it was the team we played against that tried their best to spoil it and the bloody useless REF was to blame if he had been refin a aussie match they would have shot him by now

Graham and hill aren't at the level they were 4 years ago. Lacking some aggression and go forward in the middle

Graham is a top player. Everyone can see our problems lie in the half backs and centres.

Great approach to the game. As heavy favourites some would of expected us to force plays and become lazy in defence and treat the opposition disrespectfuly. Glad to see that wasn't the case.

Nobody stood out. Our best players are wasted on the edges. Hall and Mcgillvary didn't see enough ball and often left standing. Watkins played better than I've seen in awhile?, though holds the ball too long at times. Bateman looked good at centre but is wasted there.

Half backs seemed to lack any energy. Ratchford was the biggest dissapointment for me.
Thought our forwards were okay, not great.

No problem with Hodgson. Thought he did the job that was expected.

Bennett's tone in the post match interview pretty much summed up the entertainment that was served.

Roby needs to play. Hodgson is just too one dimensional

Regards

King James

Hodgson is easily one of your best players, unfortunately he's just progressed too far beyond the rest of your spine & the rest of them are bamboozled by his superior knowledge & foresight, Bennett knows this & i'm sure he's trying to fast track the rest of your "super" league players to somewhere near his level, its obviously the same reason he will stick with Heighington, he knows how to beat Melbourne so he knows how to beat Australia, he's not scared or overawed by the experience

You missed Hodgson’s poor handling skills, limited ideas and predictability from his assets.

With that performance England will struggle to score points against France.

you sir are a joke

We've gone backwards under Bennet. We were at our best under mcbanana down under in 2014.

Bennett is RLs answer to Capello, not interested and in the wrong job. He's killing the England team playing boring Aussie style RL.
I'd rather lose playing our way than lose like this, Bennett is nothing more than the emperors tailor and the sooner he's sent packing the better. His post match interviews are contemptful and will have people switching off.

Only England supporters could be gifted one of the greatest footy brains in the history of the game & then whinge when he's too good, perhaps he should dumb down things?

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I made the same comparison with Capello to some people yesterday, neither actually seemed to like or be interested in the English game. No doubt Bennett is a great coach but sometimes even the best coaches aren't the right fit for certain jobs.

Let's wait and see how we do in the rest of the tournament. I watched the pre-tournament interview with Bennett and I liked him. Not every manager needs to laugh and joke all the time. You don't achieve what he has achieved without having talent and determination. He cares, as did Capello, but you can't turn us into world beaters in a couple of years. These are long term problems of not being quite good enough, both in RL and especially in football. His methods have worked with numerous other teams, so at the very least it's good for England players to be exposed to something that has been proven successful elsewhere. It might open their eyes to a different way of doing things and give them a different experience.