Tremendous performance from Crabtree, some great carries and offloads to get us on the front foot.

Peacock never performs well as Second Row IMO.

I agree with most comments on here ive never really rated Crabtree and though it was a bad decision to include him but he certainly changed my opinion.

Like most on here never really rated Crabtree as I thought he never played his weight. He did yesterday and was excellent.
He was able to step up his performance from club to International level something a lot our players recently have failed to do.
A certainty for England for next week.
If the Kiwis think they are big lads wait 'till they see Crabtree!

crabtree had a good game - didnt look out of place and should certainly be in the team next week !!!

Been playing like that for the past couple of seasons really

someone needs to tell him Big Daddy was just a fat annoying bell end

Are you going to volunteer

He's not mobile enough anymore to play in the second row and we got caught out on his side at times because he was struggling to cover accross to help McGuire and Smith(and christ did they need help).

I'm not slamming Peacock because he's an unbelievable prop forward but thats the only position he should be playing.

Agree that Peacock isn't really suited at 2nd row anymore, he is however a fantastic prop.

Crabtree was excellent imo, i'd like to see him get more game time off the back of that performance.

If Smith wanted to pick a big side and have one of his props running in the backrow he should have gone for one of his most mobile and those are Burgess and Crabtree.

He can't afford to keep making these massive selection errors.

Agreed, why you wouldn't have Burgess at 2nd row for most of the game and Peacock at prop is beyond me!

People who are slating Morley should really look at the stats for the game and he wasn't as bad as people are making out Morley only made 6 runs in the second half and made the same metres as Crabtree. I think we are over reacting a little here.

They were GOOD in the first half and went round the pack completely. It would have been hard for any player. I'd imagine we would be saying the exact reverse now if Eorl had started and Morley came off the bench.

I agree he didnt do much but what he did he did well I.e only one offload but one that was good.

Peacock's finished at that level, whether it's at front row or prop.

Years of playing 65-70 minutes a game have taken the little speed he did have out of his legs.

Still a good player at SL level, but for his own sake he needs to do what Senior has done and quit the international arena.

I agree. He was being dominated when taking the ball up and looked ponderous and slow. In defence, especially when in the second row, this makes him a liability. At times it was a little like watching Fielden.

Either way it is definately time for a new captain as he now seems to have that Andy Farrell look about him when captaining England/GB.