I rate Farrell, but whitehead and ablett have both been way ahead of him this season and should have been in front of him in the starting lineup and Farrell on the. Each. Tompkins should not be even in the squad

He's a far better player than Joel Tomkins, Whitehead has to play next week

Think Joel was superb in defence but didn't offer much going forward.

Thought he was good and actually tons of work going forward putting his hand up a lot.needs a bit more time to get back to his dangerous line running which is one of the reasons i thought he shouldn't have been selected but fully justified his place today on that display.

There is a good chance that Farrell will be suspended next week after being put on report for an alleged chicken wing. I'm not his biggest fan but he his a load better than Joel Tomkins, who in my view is the fourth best second row in the squad and probably not even in the top 10 of English second row forwards.

Aside from costing us a try.

He's been a shadow of the player he was since returning from union. Probably needs another year to get all the bad rugger habits out of him.

Farrell looks great in SL because he breaks precisely at the point where many teams defend poorly.

He doesn't make huge yards at international level because neither the Aussies nor the Kiwis are weak edge defenders two out from the ruck

Lets be honest, aside from O'Loughlin England don't posses a truly World class back rower right now.They are all good club and SL players no doubt but i dont see any of the current batch making waves at international level.Tomkins and Farrell were as good as we could have expected today and i dont think Whitehead or Ferres or Ablett or whoever else would have made anymore of an impact.

All this club biasness is getting quite tedious.

Farrell was the best back row for England again and was unlucky not to get a try assist for his kick at the end. At times he does struggle to make metres if there are several tacklers quickly on him and he's at a standing start but generally he's been making good ground and also getting a quick play the ball.

He shouldn't be banned for the alleged chicken wing. Inglis grabbed hold of him and kept hold of him. Farrell didn't deliberately twist the arm, he just fell on him as Inglis kept hold.

Tomkins and Ferres have offered very little though and have been quite disappointing. Tomkins is well off the pace and I'm surprised he's been selected. Ferres wasn't in particularly good form from what I saw at the end of the SL season. Whitehead is the form back row but his defence seems very dodgy when I've seen him and he seems prone to missing tackles. He also doesn't have the attacking work rate of Farrell or the likes of Ellis and Westwood from previous years although he does score plenty of tries from kicks.

I thought was very good today - very aggressive in defence.

The issue is Hodgson he is not up to this standard at the moment - his reading of the game is poor and he doesn't control the speed of the attack. Look at the difference Clark made when he was on the field

It was a chicken wing. Plain as day.

J.Tomkins should be dropped for either Whitehead or Westerman. Or I'd possibly even have Ratchford or Hardaker off the bench for an added attacking dimension, if O'Loughlin is fit enough to do 80 against Samoa.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Hodgson dropped as well and Clark doing the 80. Hodgson made 15 metres all game...