Agreed.

Samoa could be the team to beat in the 4 nations with just a few rule changes.
Half the NZ side could play for Samoa, and two of the young Australians, Milford and Sione Mataútia, are also very proud Samoans. On the Toa Samoa facebook page they have been putting up photos of Milford setting up tables on the sideline for the Samoan side today, and Sione has a brother in the Samoan squad.
Most of these guys play for NZ or Aus because of the money. Change the rules a bit to make the money equal, and suddenly Samoa is very hard to beat.

I agree.

Meanwhile Bentham is doing a great job for us vs. Aus.

He was excellent in defence. One loose carry apart he was solid.

they need follow up aswell. At best it's likely 3 more years until they play a top 3 side

Surely that was offside from the kick? The first bloke that passed it was infront of the kicker...

I don't disagree. I just think too often Watkins is solid or even good when he has the potential to absolutely dominate games.

Watkins has all the tools to be constantly dangerous. Too often he is solid.

That's what I was going to say. Too often solid. He is an explosive match-winner but you don't see it often enough.

I would like to see him stand slightly deeper, and run at gaps more. Space won't just magically appear at this level, you have to create it.

Tomkins could potentially be banned anyway for a knee twist on the Samoan lad in the 2nd half.

Poor ball retention allowed them into the game.

We had an 80% completion. They were 91%. We then had to make and extra 56 compared tackles to them.

Every stat is in their favour. But the final score.

For England.James Graham led the tackle count with 34. Westerman 33. Chris Hill made the most metres 115 (in 13 runs, joint runs with George Burgess)

Spotted that straight away. Not sure it was intentional though.