Australia looked very ordinary 1 st half against Wales tonight i know they were missing Lockyer but to be fair Wales fielding mostly part time players?? I deffo think this could be our year,
Also i didnt see Tommy laughing at all last night ???

oh come on!! i was trying to get a bit of racial abuse





but yeah, on a serious note, the English have a great chance.. the Australians werent focussed early on tonight till they realised the Welsh were up for it, il be there next saturday and il be cheering on Sam...

Great news England got to the final as theres a mad rush for tickets and the press will be all over it! and maybe, just maybe..........

Quote Wiganpieman="Wiganpieman"Kiwi half-back thinks Australia could be in for a Four Nations shock www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... ng-England And to be honest i totally agree with him'" I agree with him too. They're there for the taking.

Quote Wiganpieman="Wiganpieman"Kiwi half-back thinks Australia could be in for a Four Nations shock www1.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... ng-England And to be honest i totally agree with him'" I agree with him too. They're there for the taking.

Any aussie team on the ropes, whatever sport, is a very dangerous beast... As Ian Wooldridge once wrote, "When you play the Aussies, you don't stand on ceremony, you stand on their necks"

We need to be much much more clinical converting possession in to points than what we were on Saturday. We have a very good chance though.

Of course that's what he says - if you've been beaten that well you want to be able to say you were beaten by the eventual winners. I think it'll be close at the weekend sadly. If we can pull away a bit then maybe, like most top teams Australia aren't good at coming back when they're behind by a few. If it's even though they'll dominate the last 20 minutes.

Eek!

I've seen a number of three-match Test series where we've closely lost the first game and won the second (or vice versa), and then been absolutely butchered in the final.

The Aussies seem to have that ability to really step it up for the one that matters.

This is what we need to do next weekend. Be miles better than we were against the Kiwis. This is where the much maligned England coaching staff will really be tested. They have to get our lads to absolute peak peformance. Easier said than done of course. But if they can manage it, I fancy us.

I hate to say it, as I normally stay positive when it comes to our national side, but I can't see us getting within 30 points of Australia next week.