Im just p*ssed off someone didnt hammer Billy Slater, he's like a little child moaning all the time.

As for Thurston, great talent, but behaved like a t*at today.

That's the million pound question, isn't it? Should we be looking forward to next week's game or dreading it?

If it was our performance that did improve and not Australia taking their foot off the pedal, then where did that awful first half performance come from? Were we under prepared? Did we give Australia too much respect? Why was our organisation dire?

Looking at this NZ second half performance on now, I'd better hope the good England turn up for 80 mins on Saturday otherwise were in for a hiding.

The hard evidence proved the harsh reality that Tom Briscoe was way, way out of his depth as an international winger and for anyone to claim that it was a mistake to bring him off at half-time is nothing shirt of pathetic considering the hard evidence of a second-half scoreline of 16-0 is total vindication that it was the correct decision.

Whilst I partially agree that Briscoe "did nothing wrong" and Smith was for the more at fault in terms of defensive positioning, Tom Briscoe does not have the pace to counter long-range threats or neither the agility to turn quick enough to defend short-range kicks which made the Aussie game-plan easy.

In last weeks game against France, Tom Briscoe's lack of agility was exposed when Bosc put a kick through for Pelo and he took an age to turn and it was so obvious to anyone that the Aussie game-plan would be to kick behind Tom Briscoe knowing that by the time he recovered the ball, the defensive line would be smothering him, leaving England on the back foot without any chance of an effective "exit set".

Had Fox played in that position today, whilst he like Tom Briscoe couldn't have done anything about Smith's woeful positioning, the Aussies long range threat is nullified. For instance, where Tom Briscoe was making minimal gain on Inglis, Fox would have cut him down.

I think today's game proved that English players aren't all that bad as they are made out to be with Crabtree proving his worth (to many on this site who said he wouldn't) and also big raps to Westwood who proved me wrong.

If England are to win the final (should they beat NZ) then they have to nullify the the Aussies long-range threat, and if they are to do that properly, then Fox [ihas[/i to play.

The sad thing is, many FC fans would have been happy to leave Tom Briscoe on the pitch and see us get annihilated by 60+ just to save face.

So how was it Briscoe's fault Smith was out of position for every Aussie try then?

Pathetic KR troll just whinging because Fox didn't get picked



He bumped into Shenton & Ellis on that play so it isn't exactly is fault is it you tool?



Just shut up, Fox is crap he can't tackle or catch.



No he doesn't because Fox is below average and a liability.

Have a day off from talking out your @rse.

Why don't you? out of all the KR fans on here you are probably the most biased crap talking waste of bandwidth on this site. In fact you make Freaky look intelligent.

Agreed about Slater - can't take it when the pressures on - like a baby without it's dummy

I'm making a point that this year's SL Dream Team winger should be in ahead of a young rookie with no pace.

Give up Zoddie. Its one thing spouting rubbish on the Rovers site but leave the general forums alone you are embarrassing....

So what did the super dream team winger Peter Fox do at the back end of the season apart from knock on, look like he was scared every time a bomb went up etc?

If Richard Owen hadn't have needed surgery he would have been in front of the pair, faster then both and more reliable then Fox.

Is that why Fox went length of the field at Cas this season with Owen trailing in his wake

Explain Briscoes part in all those first half tries then!