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| Farrell is fairly solid in defence but that's not enough for an international player. Is James lowes the attacking coach?
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| Quote: Charlie Sheen "Gale should have been first choice at the start of the series, but I can't see him making any big changes for the last game, I'd consider bringing Westwood into the back row to add the bit of punch that Whitehead and Farrell don't provide.'"
Agree also Jerry and Cudjoe for Hudds should also have being selected ahead of Burgess and Bateman but none of said players play for Wigan Leeds or in the NRL, Mcbanana hasn't got a clue. I for one really hope he gets the chop after this series is over.
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| Quote: tigerman1231 "Gale has being a top performer for us week in week out and deserves a shot. Will banana agree i think not.
Williams will be selected next week regardless of that shower of **** he served up today (not the only 1 i may add) as he plays for Wigan.
Dare i say if Banana was not in charge i think we would have seen Brough and Gale as England halves and if that was the case i think we would be 2-0 up.'"
Brough and Gale would have struggled just as much behind that pack today, nowhere near as dominant as last week.
Plus, Brough is Scottish. And a bottler.
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| What an appalling game of "international" rugby league. You'd think after being pushed up from the graveyard television slot on Sunday evening to main coverage on Saturday afternoon there would be a little bit of quality on show. Sadly, one could mistake today's game as an RU match.
An unpopular suggestion but I'd keep the halfbacks the same. Last week I thought Williams did well, think he deserves a chance to make up for his game today.
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| Bateman isn't a centre.
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| It was just awful tactics. The NZ pack weren't going to roll over as easily as last week yet we think we have and amazing steamrolling pack as usual when we have class like Watkins and Hall out wide.
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| Quote: FlexWheeler "Bateman isn't a centre.'"
He's not. He's a decent second row. It's not his fault that he's not a centre, it's McNamara's fault for picking him there. We need to put a centre in the centre at international level. Or we effectively surrender any chance of attacking on one entire flank.
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| Quote: Orrell Lad "Brough and Gale would have struggled just as much behind that pack today, nowhere near as dominant as last week.
Plus, Brough is Scottish. And a bottler.'"
Im not saying they wouldn't but they both offer abit of flair and i think one if not both of them would have produced something to get us over the line today.
Also Brough is only Scottish because of McNamara if he wasn't the coach, on form over the last few years Brough would certainly be English.
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| Quote: Wigg'n "Apart from Burgess I can't think of one player that has been above average. Poor team performance.'"
Watkins looked dangerous when he had the ball, he just didn't have the ball enough. Graham and Tom Burgess were pretty good too, and S'OL played well enough.
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| Quote: tigerman1231 "Agree also Jerry and Cudjoe for Hudds should also have being selected ahead of Burgess and Bateman but none of said players play for Wigan Leeds or in the NRL, Mcbanana hasn't got a clue. I for one really hope he gets the chop after this series is over.'"
Burgess has had a superb season as well, though, and he's better under the high ball than McGilvery, so I don't have a problem with Burgess being picked.
Cudjoe hasn't had a great season from what I've seen, but I actually think Shenton deserved, and should've been picked at centre this series.
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| With a few minutes to go Chris Hill and Roby were the top 2 tacklers on the pitch despite only playing about 40-45 mins each. Surely some of the back rowers who played 65-70 mins should have been picking up some of that slack. It isn't exactly like they were offering anything useful in attack. Also think it was stupid to drag Roby off in a close game with 12 mins to go. Our halves were appalling so our best chance of somebody producing some magic was surely Roby?
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| Quote: Charlie Sheen "Burgess has had a superb season as well, though, and he's better under the high ball than McGilvery, so I don't have a problem with Burgess being picked.
Cudjoe hasn't had a great season from what I've seen, but I actually think Shenton deserved, and should've been picked at centre this series.'"
I also agree Burgess has being good all year but he is being played on the wrong side playing him out of position on the right wing when he plays left wing, JM and LC play right side for club and both must have had pretty good seasons with Jerry being top of try charts,Leroy must have had a hand in alot of those ( maybe not i don't know... queue the Hudds fan).
Shenton seemed to be carrying injury's towards back end dislocated shoulder twice last year i think so may have decided against the call to get right for pre season (also dont know).
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| Quote: Roy Haggerty "He's not. He's a decent second row. It's not his fault that he's not a centre, it's McNamara's fault for picking him there. We need to put a centre in the centre at international level. Or we effectively surrender any chance of attacking on one entire flank.'"
To be fair, with those half backs and that structure we've effectively surrendered the chance of attacking on either flank.
Through 160 minutes, I'm struggling to remember either centre getting good ball in space.
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| Very poor performance with the ball. Absolutely no imagination to our play at all. The back row were terrible they didn't create space for the third pivot or centres barely at all, all game.
We were incredibly boring to watch.
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| Quote: Roy Haggerty "I remain clueless as to what McNamara thinks Widdop brings to this team ahead of Gale. At least Gale has energy. Our attack is terrible. Defence is solid enough. Saving grace us that the Kiwis aren't using their superior talent in the backs.'"
Widdop has plenty of energy, unfortunately it's about the same as a headless chicken
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