Westwooooood ............

No dont go back to the olds days and play all wigan i like the mix of players from diffrent teams

Yeaman and welham are the 2 options i would have chose over bridge and shenton

Welham, no, no and no again

Bridge looked poor, but all the backs did cos they recieved no service from the halfbacks.

I'd have McGillvary in for Hall, keep Shenton and Bridge but just try and get some quick ball to the backs.

Yeaman deserves a place, but would he have done better Bridge and Shenton tonight?

I've said this time and time again
In International football, you HAVE to play people in their PROPER positions
If we already have someone better in that particular position, the coach MUST be ruthless, and either not play the superfluous player at all, or you have him on the subs bench. Why does Sinfield (a loose forward) play stand off? Do we HAVE to play him? NO WE DON'T. McBanana should have had some balls, and said to him 'sorry Kevin, I prefer someone else at LF, so I'm not picking you in the starting 13', but here we go again...we HAVE to find a place for him....CRAP....

We've been doing this for 15 years+ now, playing players out of position.
If a scratch team can beat us, on our territory, when we've played people out of position, what's a fully committed Aussie team going to do to us?

Play a team in their correct positions...and B0110cks to their reputations

No but it's frightening from an England pov to think that George Carmont at 33 years of age was the best centre on the pitch tonight.

I agree completely. BUT Sinfield has played most of this season so far at Stand Off. He's still crap mind but if people say Joel Tomkins should now be considered a centre, same goes for Sinfield.

BUT SINFIELD IS A LOOSE FORWARD
I don't give a flying 5h1t3 if he's played there (because Danny McGuire's been injured for 9 month) all season. He's out of position, and I'm afraid at that level, you get found out, and surprise surprise....we have been......AGAIN

The one thing Westwood certainly did was look like he wanted the game to be played at the intensity level of an international.

I half enjoyed the game, certainly better than the games against France.

Didn't think there were many (any?) standout performances for either team but I wouldn't want to see Peacock, Sinfield or Hall play at that level again.

Peacock looks a bit lost (atm)
Sinfield, I've said this before (and been derided by over-protective Whinos fans), is (at best) a VERY good SL player...and that's where it ends
Hall is just a good SL player

Let's be honest, who out of tonight's Englad 17, would worry an Aussie international 'C' team...not many...certainly not any of the 3/4 line, that's for sure...going across the side...the Aussies would only be worried about Graham (and possibly Weswood and Tomkins) even getting a look-in.

give him a biscuit

Problem is Rogues that there are some idiots out there who think players are done and dusted once they turn thirty.

Tonight Georgie Boy certainty showed what crap such people are spouting; hey?

Then has to troll, saying Myler wasn't good. when....

1} Scored a try
2} Saved two other
3} Biggest try scoring threat in attack
4} Created quite a few decent openings out left
5} Defence strong all nightt.

Also couldn't resist a pop at Bridge, when he didn't do much wrong. I can see the trolling a mile off. Gives Westwood credit to buy a bit of time to put down our other players. I'm not saying Richie was outstanding, but he wasn't poor or just a support player, I think he was steady and did his job without being spectacular.