We (England) have got a solid back 5 now. Hall gets better, Reed looks the part already, and Yeamo and Briscoe were great last night.

Yes! Lol, I missed the changing of the shorts, though.

Watching them shaking hands after the game then they just started stripping off, then the next time I saw Tom he was a Kiwi

Congratulation to you guys on both your players performances, was esp happy for Yeamo, as i think to most sensible RL fans Tom simply showed what we already know he is capable of, but Kirk stood up really well last night.
Hope both retain there place in the final as would be good to see our representation along with representatives of most Cas fans '2nd team' bring England some success

I think McNamara has bucked the trend of previous coach's failures by sticking with the same team throughout the tournament and letting them develop as a group. In the past we've seen too much panic induced chopping and changing which ultimately does not create a team, with predictable results.

Think he has been brave to stick to his guns.

Shame briscoe couldn't have finished his run off by scoring but as has been said, it would probably have been chalked off. He's quick but not a flyer and his main attributes are strength, acceleration and his ability to change direction in full flight

Briscoe was not moving well at all after being caught - I hope he is not badly injured because he definitely wasn't right at the end of the game.

Think it started a good ten mins before his run. I imagine that and the tackle only exacerbated it, though.

I'd agree to an extent, but I fail to see what Heighington adds to the side. Reckon we'd look better with Sinfield at 13 and Widdop at 6.

Thinking about it, you can get rid of that Rovers-biased idiot Wilkin, too.

What I mean is, once he'd picked his squad, he's kept the same 17 apart from where injuries dictated otherwise. Could definitely tweak the squad for next time, though. We've now got a brilliantly promising young set of backs, but he needs to bring younger forwards in as well.

Why change a team thats working aswell as they did last night
When the kiwis looked like scoring england upped the defensive effort
How many times has that happened in previous comps...very few i imagine
And lets be honest the game against the aussies we looked like we could beat them barring the few obvious decisions
One gripe though why did macca put widdop on with 4 mins to go????
I think they stand a real good chance against em at leeds

He got caught by Andy Coley once. Gotta be embarrassing.



Still provides great service to the left flank. Passes that way at least once in every 10 times he has the ball.