Seems like a pretty good centre to me! How do you lot rate him?

I don't agree that Westwood was badly done to; the ref made his intentions clear from the outset and at this level, it's not too much to expect players to adapt and react accordingly - Westwood failed to do that and persisted in messing about at the ruck.

If you look at them as isolated incidents maybe so and after he was done the first time, you could say BW should have learnt, but im not convinced the ref was consistent with his calls around the ruck. The one mentioned above when Whatmough tipped ST up was a prime example, and not the only one. Cameron Smith could have been penalised numerous times for various slowing down attempts.

for me it looked the the ref had had people in his ear telling him that england would hold the aussies down. i thought the two holding down incidents involving westwood were both harsh. you could argue that he didn't learn, but i don't think that this is the case, i think the ref had been conditioned to look for things that may have been there. there didn't appear to be a standard approach.

Yeaman looked out of his depth at the international level i thought. Atkins might not be a better answer to the problem as he seemed on the same level as Yeaman in last years internationals. Not to say either are not good SL players.

Good player solid good defence we can beat kiwi on satuday