No matter how great a coach he is, he's been frankly cringeworthy when been interviewed. I know he isn't the best at that side of things but come on man.

Ended up watching the bonfire die out before the Aussie v New Zealand game, the bonfire bit was more exciting than the England game.

England took 40 minutes and probably a roasting from Bennett to get going.
When we battered them down the middle, Scotland couldn't cope.
Australia are a different proposition all together. Machine like, very few errors and if you dont match up, they will destroy you.
Our right side defence, although strong on paper, was targeted with success last night, which is a major worry for next week.
Although Scotland deserve some credit and improved massively form last week, Australia are superior in every department and we look like we are in for a hammering.
Hope i'm wrong but it looks like Austalia v NZ at Anfield.

Australia will batter us to death - particularly if we come out as listless as we did in the 1st half against Scotland.

And Bennett's interview - just cringey; if the England coach has some role in publicising and growing the game, I would suggest he's breaching the T's and C's of his contract. I bet poor old Tanya wonders what she's done to upset him.

Whats the sketch with the beeb coverage.
Why is their slo-mo such diabolical garbage, I mean...I don't actually mind their coverage despite their presenter knowing absolutely nothing about RL but I couldn't make sod all conclusions about Matty Russel's try/no try from the blurry rubbish they played back to us during the game.
Are they shooting and replaying standard frame rate cameras for tv but giving the vid ref high frame rate, if so, wtf for
The ref sent up the call no try, so the vid ref better have pretty conclusive vid evidence to the contrary if hes gonna over rule that call.
What we got to see was a foot of pink blur, and no idea at all whether a try was scored or not.
This of course is commentary on the beebs abysmal slo-mo coverage of events that can make a difference to the outcome of a game, not a dig at a Scottish score, personally I think he deserved to score it on effort alone but that replay wasn't of sufficient quality that anyone could tell one way or the other, let alone strike the on field decision.

I like him, I like that he's telling it like it is, I don't want to hear no "for TV" commentary.
I want him edgy and ed off when England are poor, I wanna know he's as ragged off as I am, that he's not just here to make up the numbers, its nice to see that..

Just like Cheshire Cat and Chissitt

Just because your the secretary of the Stranrear Branch of the Scotland rugby team, it does not give you license to make disparaging remarks about people, especially sensitive people like my uncle Cheshire Cat

Well, he's Australian, it can't come as much of a surprise, they're not generally known for their tact or sucking up to the media.
I dunno, its just a complete non story for me, Aussie coach thinks they played e.......and said so shocker.
I couldn't care less about his perceived persona, as long as he gets this team moving.
If he doesn't, well....all bets are off and he's a legitimate target.
Half the coaches in SL have had a face like a smacked for half the season, Darryl Powel, Dennis Betts, Radford, look at Wane, a complete but you cannot argue with what he's achieved, nip in the Pie forum, nobody is whinging about his on screen temperament there.
Nope, I wanna see how d he is about a performance, and to show it on TV just adds credence to his motives for taking the job in the first place, stuff the neutrals, winning will do more for them than dancing round daisy's in tv interviews.

I do think if Bennet was English no one would be complaining about his demeanour. No one complained how glum McBanana looked during interviews.

Yes they did - when he walked out of an interview because he couldn't intelligently field questions about Hardaker's misdemeanours on tour, he was vilified.

I get that results are key, but as a national coach, he has a wider responsibility to the game - and he just doesn't seem to give a tom tit about that.

Just a further comment regarding the tournament and the empty seats, especially at the double header in Coventry.

I said at the time, I am all for expansion, and that if we are to spread the sport, we need to put internationals in these venues. I still stand by this.

One of the points I made either on this forum, it it is good to do this, but as with a lot of other things that the sport does away from the heartlands, it needs to be advertised and promoted locally to those regions for it to take off.

The company I work for has an office within 10 miles from the centre of Coventry, and have been talking to a number of staff from there who follow sport, and there has been no local promotion of this whatsoever.

My issue with having a one off match in place like Coventry, is that any locals who attended will have forgotten about it the following Monday. Playing the majority of the tournament in one place will do a lot better raising the profile of the game (that old chestnut expansions churn out) in new areas. If it's going to be down south, keep it down south. If's it going to the Midlands, keep it there etc.