I thought he was average and certainly isn't worth the loss of credibility we've suffered due to his inclusion.

Perhaps not, but the lack of credibility is 100% down to the coach, not the player.

spot on mate, i do not want to hear any southen hemisphere accents from a english team. makes me sick, give the english lads ago first , or i for one will not suport a english rugby league team of inports. yes i know some will say the Aus and New Z, do it, but it does not work for me. get it right RFL,the game is a joke from a english point.

Not blaming the player, I'm only assessing his game in an England shirt which was average at best! Beyond that if McNamara is going to beg steal and borrow players from other nations I'd expect them to be exceptional and worth the loss of credibility, Chase isn't! When you then factor in that we had the option of Danny Brough it becomes more confusing as to why we've compromised our principles to shoe horn Chase into the set up.

The blame lays firmly at the feet of McNamara who has made other glaringly awful decision already and we haven't even started the 4Ns yet!

What you said, for the most part!!

Chase got frustrated and his basic skills seemed to not be up to scratch for me. I hope he can turn it around. I do agree with a previous poster in that DB should be 7 and Widdop in at 6. Their skills seem to complement each other well. Sinfield seemed to go missing too.

To be fair Rich the most annoying part for me is shoe horning a 13 into 6 and a 6 into 7 when you have arguably the best 7 in SL sat watching. For me if he was going to play Chase it should have been at 6 with Brough at 7 and Sinfield at 13. It's a comlete joke and i was hoping we would get turned over tonight by a team of Catalans players -2.

See my post from the VT


Brough & Widdop should have been the halves but now we're stuck with Chase at scrum half. Let's hope that McNamara comes into a little sense in the next few days and puts Widdop in at stand off.

There's no place for Sinfield, top class football teams can't carry a traditional ball playing loose forward any more it's now three back rowers who carry the ball strongly and tackle all day.

Carvel has to come onto the bench.

I agree entirely about Sinfield never really rated him and i also agree about Carvell. For me if Chase has to play it would be him at 6 and DB at 7. DB can control a game in very much the same was as Danny Orr which allows Chase to be the running 6 he does so well. Ideally it would be DB at 7 and GW at 6 but that aint gonna happen whilst Steve McNamara is in charge.

Chase is not English, and should not don a ENGLISH SHIRT.Iam upset

Chase was the nearest man to both of the French tryscorers for the last two tries. Expect lots of tries down the right over the next month. And off the cuff stuff is too risky at international level.

Don't mind Read too much, despite the accent. He was born here and so I presume has English parents as well. Chase has just chased the nearest international shirt.

And Tomkins is a better six than Sinfield. Can't comment on Widdop as not seen him at six, but Tomkins of last year was better than the Sinfield of this.

Think of it this way: at Ellan Road on November 19th, you get to see Lockyer's last game and a haka.

got bored with the game and end up throwing the ball around the house for the dogs,
woeful game maybe due to the opposition but England just sat back as if they didn't seem interested and allowed the frogs back in

Reed took his try well but just looked sluggish

pleased to see Ellis look strong as usual

one word 'farce'

spot on snowie, lets see young english lads playing, thats the only way the game can go

reason why the national anthem wasn't played was they didn't know whether to play waltzing Matilda the haka or god save the queen, if Broughy had played you could added I'll take the high road

you are English not a hybrid Antipodean European

in fact I'd rather put a card cut of Sam Burgess on the field if he wasn't fit to play