Not at all. It was not good enough with ball in hand for the purists.

we have no other wingers available, this whole thing is a fooking shambles

I know, and it beggars belief that he selected so many halves with the style he wants to play.

Why this obsessive bashing of Wayne Bennett?

Isn't it obvious that he just didn't have the playing talent to work with?

He should've picked em then.

Being an Aussie doesn't automatically make him talented. He's a boring dinosaur and does the game no favours with his style of play.

Some players that come to mind - Tomkins,Watts,Williams,Lineham, Charnley,Reece Lynne,Grace,Joe Burgess,and I'm sure some posters could add to these. Not sure if Roby was available,if he was, it's absolute madness not to pick him to interchange with Clark. For me,Bennett should be no more, and Shaun Wane should replace him. This is not Bennett bashing, it's my OPINION!!

I agree. However he didn't help himself by picking so many HB and not enough backs.
The talent pool certainly doesn't help. But surly it's common sense to take more than 2 Wingers and 1 Centre.

Either Grace or Handley would offer exactly the same as Williams/Austin have on this tour - a place in the squad but not the 17.

I can't ever remember Tomkins showing on the international stage why he should be picked!

The 2019 Downer Nines.

Surly the squad should be picked on performances during the season. Not on a Nines tournament that is completely different to a test match.

I see Jermaine McGillvary is being panned across social media for that poor effort which could of won us the game. Whilst I feel him being singled out is a little harsh, I believe had Tommy Makinson not been injured, a better player than McGillvary in every aspect, he would've finished that late chance and we may well have gone on to win the match with such little time left.

It also has to be asked why did Widdop just boot the ball to the Kiwis on the last tackle with us about 10 yards still in our own half with less than a minute left on the clock? Surely in a situation like that you chance your arm and keep the ball alive as much as you can. Really poor play from Widdop.

First and foremost, the referee was a ing disgrace. The amount of lying on and messing about at the PTB by NZ that he continually allowed, slowing us down all the time, was scandalous.

He ruined the game as a spectacle and could have caused some more serious fights than the scuffles that did ensue because he just allowed NZ to basically cheat all game that frustrated our lads.

He himself when the big decisions came round - Marshall high tackled Hall to stop a try, which is at least a Sin Bin, and the ref just brushed over it and gave just a penalty.

And when Hastings made that great break, Philbin was pulled back and he was going to be the support runner. The ref did NOTHING!

Onto the game: GB played with no intensity and no invention at all. I can’t help but feel that Bennett’s coaching is outdated. And by it’s BORING! One-out running with absolutely no creativity at all. It’s supposed to be the entertainment business but it was about as entertaining as watching grass grow.

Josh Hodgson is a boring RL player. Steady, consistent, yes. But boring. All he does is pass from dummy half or take three steps from dummy half and then pass which just reduces the space for the ball receiver. He does absolutely nothing to commit any defenders to him to create space for the player he passes to and he hasn’t got a dummy half run in him. He causes absolutely ZERO panic in the opposition defence. I felt the same watching him in that NRL GF where the only true X Factor Canberra had was Whiteon. At the very top level (GFs/test matches) you need an X Factor, you have to have something special at Hooker but Hodgson just simply doesn’t have it.

McGilvary has to do better. He had an eye catching World Cup but when it really mattered in the World Cup Final he should have passed to Widdop for a try but didn’t, and froze when that ball went through and he missed the ball when trying to kick it. Yesterday, he should have passed to Hardaker on the break and he seriously had to score that try, he didn’t protect the ball at all.

It looks like Hall is now injured and McGilvary isn’t good enough yet Bennett hasn’t taken any other wingers on the tour (which is ing ridiculous). So now we’re going to go into the final games with players playing out of position.

All-in-all a very frustrating tour so far. I’m really disappointed!

And I hope that we do not see that disgrace of a referee again!