After having a couple of days to digest the defeat,I still think we need to totally rebuild,Gale is not any where near world class,I think the abject showing in the grand final proved this, yes he’s good on castlefords tylittle pitch but goes missing in other games,a lot of the players picked,were to me chosen on the advice of Betts& p45 cock,I still say get rid of the lot& surely if we have to rely on oloughlin and bringing assistant ref Tompkins back,then we can look forward to another decade of being 3 rd in the world!

wow, two posters who clearly need to up the dosage of sanatogen!

for me, the biggest mistake was bateman at , Watts for tom burgess , and houghton on bench instead of lomax and we'd of won that game

Half backs gash & Bateman at centre a JOKE.

Some of the replies on this thread, deary me.

Blah blah blah, you attack posters opinion and yet cannot even rebuff the arguments as to why you think they're wrong, frankly you should get back on the seven seas yourself!
see above

I personally think this was our best chance for 30 years to win it, that was probably one of the weakest Aussie sides I have seen.

As said above I think he got his side wrong, Bateman should have been in the backrow, Percival at centre, Williams should of have been given a run at 6,he is 10 times the player Brown is.

Mcmeeken and Taylor should have been in the 17.

IMO this side would have won the final

Widdopp
Mcgillvary
Watkins
Percival
Hall
Williams
Gale
Hill
Roby
Graham
Bateman
Whitehead
Burgess

Walmsley
Taylor
Mcmeeken
Lomax or Currie

I don't battle with idiots, they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Yeh agree, Bennett got it wrong, or whoever was advising

This is why he should go for me. If we're going to be successful over the next few years we need someone who is fully committed to the England job and not busy coaching an NRL team throughout the year. The England squad is going to change and evolve over the next 4 years and is a guy based over in Australia and too busy at club level the right man to see who should be the players we move ahead with.

The England coach should be based over here, watching SL players in action week in week out, in constant contact and meeting with those that are in his squad, those that could be in the future, those on the fringes or dropped out, at the mid season get togethers.

Head coach Australia Wayne Bennett
Assistant coach England Denis Betts
Assistant coach England Paul Anderson
First team coach England Paul Wellens
Team manager England Jamie Peacock

So, Betts, Anderson and Wellens... hardly proven RL Coaches!