what i liked is that the he irrated the aussies. they ragged him a couple of times off the ball yet he kept going. thats what we need. someone that gets under their skin. But sam was impressive and the aussies noticed him. For me i would play sam at 6 and eastmond at 7. Crabtree and ellis played really well. If eastmond played let him kick and play burgess at loose and get rid of sinfield.

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I think that's a compliment - just...

Superb, one of the only players who can go off with head held high really.

Him and eastmond are so dangerous I say 6 and 7 next week for them two.

Defo!!!

The time has come for us to have the two most talented young hb's in SL today playing for England!

I still think Eastmond is as talented as Sam

tomkins had a great game, as did eastmond. sinfield also played well when he was at hooker. would have tomkins and eastmond in the halves next week, with sinfield switching between hooker and loose.

Sounds like a plan.
Lee Smith has to go, to sub Briscoe was laughable, drop a 19 year old for someone off to kick and clap.

Absolute class act is Tomkins and was our best player today IMO........... have to say well done to the Wigan club for bringing this lad through well this season.

Sinfield at hooker demonstrated how poor roby's distribution was. It was no coincidence England got going with some clean ball at acting half.

I thought Tomkins did well, his biggest plus being that he wasn't afraid to stand toe to toe with the opposition.

Of course there has to be a suspicion that his performance was based quite significantly on the Aussies dropping off in the second half, but that can also be said about the whole England side, which improved dramatically in the second half.

Still not too optimistic for next week though....It just seems we have a mental problem of not being able to perform for 80 minutes...Either that, or we just aren't good enough??...

Correct.

We have been too dependent on the scooter hooker die with the ball hooker for too long. I've been moaning about it for years, at last I have got at least one supporter.

You have another here.

I have been saying Sinfield should play Hooker for quite a while now. Then leave a spot on the becnh for extra punch in the pack which we will need against aus and NZ.

Burgess and Crabtree was our best forwards today

One Thing that needs to stop is the Flat pass. it is a waste of time.

9 out of ten times the attacking player is still juggling the ball during impact with the defence. Either that or there is a knock on. it is very in-effective.

We need to get players running from deep ASAP.

IMO the flat pass is a lazy way to play the game

Look at the way the Aussies played right to left today all stood back their passing speed was un-real. We will never have that when all SL teams play the flat pass game. It bugs me they dont have any plan b we just start playing panic rugby.