And on top of all that, he's good looking and intelligent too!

*drool*

We're desperate for some young outside backs to come through now that we seem to be sorting our halfback problems out. A clever hooker wouldn't go amiss either........maybe McGuire can mould McIlorum into a clever hooker to add to his energy and his toughness(and then we'd need to get him to switch over to England).

As for the outside backs it's be great for the national side if we rounded up the likes of Lawrence, Cudjoe, Ainscough, Hall, Briscoe, Watkins, Wheeler and co and sent them all over to Australia to play in the NRL.

IMO the best way to find a clever hooker is to put a half-back at hooker.

Noooo!! We want him here to play centre for Saints!

Or a halfback playing without much pace playing at 13 like Sinfield.

Having just watched yesterdays game back for the first time i thought Sinfield was excellent when he went in at hooker and really got us rolling forward with crisp and clever distribution.

I had him down as my 6 for next week but i've changed that now to 9 with Myler partnering Tomkins.

I have been saying Sinfield should play hooker for england for quite a while, let him for most of the match and let someone like Eastmond who is rapid try and get us moving forward quicker.

I remember Sinfield having a couple of good games for GB in 2001(i think) playing at 9 at times.

To me he could well have found his position at international level there. It suits his game because he's got a good passing game and is a pretty clever player. It will also give him abit more time to get his kicks away without being closed down on the back of a bad dummy half pass.

He should take a leaf out of Cameron Smiths book when it comes to dummy half kicking........Awesome stuff yesterday.

Why is it that Aus can always find the space when kicking and we can't, Thurstons kicking is amazing and Smiths from dummy half is superb, it gives you a better option to kick early IMO.

Sinfield should play hooker next week if Tony Smith was watching the game.

Purely and simply it's thier sheer speed of the PTB. If you notice, in most tackles Australia find their elbows and knee's, which makes for a quicker PTB and more often than not a defensive line looking like a dog's back leg.

England get turned over onto thier backs thus slowing the PTB down and letting the opposition have more time to set their defensive line.

Are you Paul Cullen

You are correct though, its not rocket science, you can get up easier if you are not on your back. We let them dominate the collision too much sometimes.

Some chap at the game kept screaming at the ref for letting the aussies hand on longer in the tackle..

But it was the fact there PTB was so much faster than ours. really hope MM can bring that into our game next season becauses a killer for defences