Wish we'd had Warren and Sterlo commentating, sure Eddie and Stevo were pi$$ed

Horne and Thorman obviously. Horne at least is strong defensively and neither could be less effective in attack than what was on show today.

we take 4 props to a world cup, of which two are in the twilight of their careers, one who thinks hes gunna be the bionic man yet the aussies & png found it relatively easy to deal with him and another who should be playin for samoa.

surely out of all the guys playing the game in the uk we can find a few more coming up through the "system"?

morley 31
peacock 30
graham 21
forget fasavalu

who else is there? burgess? he wouldve got his face ripped off today
carvell? always injured. fielden, long gone
i cant think of anymore so the rest must be kelt.

The result today summed up the difference between Super League and NRL, what more is they to say?

Our English forwards were litle short of a complete embarrassment. Peacock was battered from start to finish, and Graham just didn't look physically strong enough to go bruising against the Aussies.

Kicking game was crap. They was a brief 10 minute period when we had them rattled, but Tony Archer was quick to bring them back into the game with a penalty. He made countless judging mistakes, a serious knock on at the start of the game, and every 50/50 decision went against us.

Forgetting about the referee for a moment however, Australia were far superior. Today's humiliation is the final straw for the game in the north.

Eddie, Stevo and Phil Clarke must face the axe to say the least, but the RFL have well and truly had their s handed to them!

Take a bow Billy Slater and Greg Inglis!

This is what the Aussies think of us.

there was no aggression in England's defense TBH i was expecting england to give it there all, give the Aussies a game, as Eddie said in the commentary "we will get to the final against the Aussies" but really i dont think we'll beat new Zealand on them performances, a huge step up is needed IMO.

England were missing three critical components today:

Briscoe
Fox
Cooke

Same old story -yet again!!

The centres jumping out of the line,making poor decisions in defence,
leaving the winger with a 2 to 1 overlap every time.

The centres should be doing a man marking job.

Poor indiscipline, -giving more possession to Australia, time and time again.

Poor kicking game.

Wellens has no pace.

Gleeson's defence is shocking

Calderwood - at least he made 4 tackles on the spin.

Next week's game is a dead rubber.

I'd play

1.Smith
2 Gardner
3.Purdham
4.Sykes
5.Calderwood
6.Sinfield
7.Burrows
8.Morley
9.Higham
10,Graham
11Jones-Buchanan
12.Wilkin
13.Ellis

Team for next week?

1. Pryce.
2. Smith.
3. Sykes.*
4. Senior.*
5. Calderwood.
6. McGuire.*
7. Burrow.
8. Morley.
9. Roby.
10. Peacock.
11. Ellis.
12. Westwood.
13. Purdham.

Graham.
Hock?
Micky Higham (We need to spell Roby)
Jamie Jones-Buchanan.

*Who else is there?

Can't read the sign,underneath the players,

Can you post a link?

Cheers

Eddie is useless. This guy know nowt about rugby. He had the cheek to say England gave it their all Stevo was honest for once and said it was not good enough and Phil Clarke is the only one with any common sense! I would have liked to see Tony Rea on the commentry.

As for England, no aggresssion, no pride, no clue and no leader! What do the Aussies think now? Each year all they hear is GB/ England can do it and each year they fail to deliver. I thought the Aussies were arrogant. Not the case, just right about us...

Oh, and it surely is the death of international rugby. The Aussies wont come near us now. They have been putting up with us over the last few years, but now they might wash their hands of us. Cant blame them really