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"Watmough could recall precious little about the match after copping a stray elbow in the head from England halfback Sam Tomkins."

Soft .

Well, as Jamie Peacock said "You want it like that? You can have it"

I've always said, the way to beat the Ockers is to start a punch up early doors. For me, that's exactly what England should have done last week against NZ when they came back to 18-10 and had NZ on the ropes, briefly.

Well will get tonked.

Hope I’m wrong but I can’t see anything but a convincing Aus win.

Mystic Joe says

We beat Australia by 2 scores.
We beat PNG by less than the Aussies did
Final is England vs NZ.
We win by 24 points to ten.

or I hope any way.

In fact, if i am hoping for stuff. I hope we stuff everyone and then Warrington signs Graham and swaps Hodgeson's contract for William slater's.

This is do-able guys.

Both England and Australia haven't got 100% ideal squads. Play hard and stay focused. Don't put the heads down and focus on the desire to do one over the Aussies and we are home free.

"William Slater's"

being shown at the bel air plus you can get some breakfast.

It's worse than that, I don't think the 3/4s would beat Saints either. We used to have centres who could hold their own against the Aussies and wingers like Robinson and Offiah who were at least the equal of their opponents, but from the start of SL things have been in a steep decline.

For the last 4 or 5 years in particular the English/British 3/4 line up has been very poor but this appears to be plumbing new depths.

Tomkins and the constantly injured Eastmond aside do we currently have any backs who are international standard?

I really hope I'm proved wrong, but I fear that the only way we can avoid a 40+ point pummelling is for the game to be turned into a forward battle. We can have no other strategy.

Lockers will tackle everything that moves (and still get criticised) I'm sure but in the forwards we need massive performances - Graham to be firing, Fielden to step up a couple of gears and the boys playing in the NRL to justify their big reputations.

We need to forget trying to win the game and set out to hurt the Ozzies (legitmately, but with the odd massive punch up if possible!).

We need to face facts: other than the genius of Tomkins we have nothing to offer in the backs whatsoever. The only thing I would want from Robinson is for him to have the best kicking game of his life.

If he does that and his distribution is average but the forwards perform we will stand a chance of keeping the defeat down to an unembarrassing margin.

Is it me or is this all a bit depressing?

Thank God we have the WCC to look forward to!

We're going to get battered.

At WCC?

I wasn't going to say out but ... I agree.


Nah just trolling

No mention on BBC North West Tonight on the game thank the lord for ITV Granada who showed around 45sec.