Good assessment.

James Graham is our best player by a country mile.

I'd start with Sam Tomkins on the bench. Use him as an impact / broken play runner when the big guys are tiring. Joel Tomkins should be nowhere near the 17 in my opinion. In the past we have had a glut of back rowers but its one of our weakest areas at present. Not sure why that is.

Persicution Complex in full bloom!

I'm always amazed how much time England fans spend talking down their own team and talking up the opposition.

If you're generally scared or worried by this Australian side, I can't see why. As weak an Australian side - particularly in the forwards as I can ever remember seeing.

I thought the forwards were fine today - good, in fact, and I'm optimistic about them clashing with the Aussies. As ever, our weakness was in the back 7. The threequarters offered little threat, but to be fair to them, they didn't get great service from the halfbacks.

I do think O'Loughlin needs to come in, almost certainly for Farrell or Joel Tomkins. But the key change for me would be to bring in Hardaker somewhere, as he is a genuinely potent attacking threat. Based on today, I'd swap him in for Shenton, but I can also see the argument of him starting at fullback with Sam Tomkins on the bench.

Lot of negativity here, first of all think it should be considered that this was England's first game in a year. Our world cup campaign started off with a loss in a friendly to Italy. This time we looked off the pace and still saw off a pretty strong Samoa team. Some of the guys that played today haven't played in over a month now so I'd say some rust is to be expected.

Don't think many changes need to be made, other than Westerman (who was solid) for O'loughlin. We were caught in a good arm wrestle with a powerful Samoan pack and the momentum was constantly shifting. They were kicking on the front foot quite a bit which did Tomkins no favours with those bombs. Think it's a huge overreaction to call for him to be dropped or moved after that game imo. Our forwards need to step up against a fairly vulnerable looking Australian pack and set a platform. When the kiwis went route 1 today it looked very effective. We should take some encouragement from that.

I concur with Vossy, if we can step up a gear from today, which every player in that team is capable of doing, we can turn Australia over next week. Personally I think this is shaping up to be one of the best 4 nations. Australia look vulnerable and Samoa look less likely to be swept aside than any other team outside the big 3 in any of these tournaments so far.

Rusty from England but thats to be expected first game up, goes without saying we need to improve for next week but we def can... Aussies up next who look in disarray!

like to see o'loughlin and whitehead come in for ferres and westerman next week.

what was with the BBC commentary today!!! it was ahead of the actual game by a few seconds..very frustrating

At the end of the day if we beat Oz we get to the final and they go out. If we lose then in reality it'll be NZ v Oz. So it rides on next week. I still hold out hope for a Samoa v England final as I think Samoa may spring a surprise next week!

Sam Tomkins could face a video review for a leg-twist on Simona in the 53rd minute

DCE looks like he's out of the Tournement with Brisbanes Ben Hunt set to replace him at stand off

The only change I would make would be to bring O'Loughlin in for Westerman.

I think people do a disservice to Leilua who is an excellent player when commenting on Shenton's defence.

I felt Shenton did pretty well to mostly contain the most dangerous centre on display today, including the centre I think is the world's best in Whare.