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.

Someone gave him a pre-Christmas release copy of Richard Agar's new book "Interchange Your Way To The Top"

running with the ball under one arm slow you down .its not like carrying a baton were you can punch through
the air with both arms . If the lad had got the ball in full flight nobody would have caught him or anybody else with some speed ..Tom had to turn then set off. none of the players on his side of the field got any were near him ..

he was limping and it come from the try he scored he got up after that quick but gingerly.

Wheres Mr Pumpkinhead and his stats for Yeamo.

I thought both had great games and really happy for Yeamo that he predominantly stayed in the line and kept the left edge solid. Made his tackles when racing in too so very pleasing. Reed also I was happy for as he got his defence right too making right edge more solid. Need to repeat that against Aussies and if we defend as team like that we can frustrate them in their attack and then we have a great chance to win the game and turn the Aussies over at last.

Would be great to see Yeamo defend like that week in week out for us too. Minor technical changes given MAJOR improvements to performance. Hats off to Macnamara too as i assume he's seen the problem and rectified it. TOP MARKS ALLROUND

Both had good games, looks more comfortable and had some great defence. Yeamo pulled out a few of his specials and stood up well.

Wilkin would not be playing if Ellis/Burgess were fit anyway. Passes once and we score, funny that! I too would like to see Sinfield at 13, with Widdop and Chase in the halves. Get rid of Wilkin and put Heighington/starting back row on the bench.