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| Quote: bren2k "I'll give Matty Smith some stick - he's been crap - I don't think I saw a single decent kick in play in any of our games; the decision by McNamara to exclude Danny Brough was bonkers to start with, but it looks even worse now - he's better than Smith in every single aspect of his game, with perhaps the exception of temperament, in that he looks like he actually gives a damn.'"
Yep that was madness.
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| I can't be bothered to read the majority of all the replies but from the first game I knew we where going to struggle. The team selection throughout was shocking, Farrell and Tomkins in the 2nd row, what did they do all series, nowt, Some of you lot might reply that Farrell set up the no try for Hall, but the video ref disallowed an aussie try similar to Hall's earlier in the game so there was no chance of him awarding Halls effort. There was no threat at all from the 2nd row all series, Farrell was put through a gap for his try and Tomkins got a lucky bounce for his effort. If we really wanted to compete I would have played one Burgess at prop the other at 13, with a 2nd row of O'Loughlin and either Ferres/Whitehead.
Then there was the selection of Charnley on the wing please tell me what he did all series, surely Makinson, T Briscoe, could have done better jobs. Also why no Saints players surely Makinson, Amor, Turner could have done a job for England
IMO if we can't beat the aussies when they have 21 yes 21 players missing there has to be something wrong, the fact that there wasn't a warm up game continues to dumbfound me, we've always started slow in these comps so lets have a run out against some other team for example in this instance a game against PNG/Fiji would have done us a world of good, giving the spine of the team (1,6,7,9,13) to get used to one and other.
I'm sick of hearing about how frustrating it was for the coach, I'd be ranting and raving letting the opposition back into the game is a cardinal sin for me, once you're on top, elite level professional sports people should be able punish opposition teams for the entire game not let them back into contests.
I dread to think about the next 4 nations if it's next year, the players will probably play more games than this so more injuries, fatigue and now lack of rest for the players who played for England for this time, how long off will they get this year and next.
So until we create more depth in our playing ranks, more creativity throughout the side and get a coach who looks at more than just players in the nrl and wigan we won't have a chance.
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