Greg Bird gave away a couple of cheap penalties that are more a cardinal sin than trying a difficult offload.

As Noble said. The offload was worth the risk given the state of play and position on the field.

Bird doesn't play loose man for GC and is only playing there due to Gallen's ban. Comparison is pointless.

To be fair to Clark he did very well until he got nearly broken in half.

Gutsy effort from the Samoans again this morning , There not far off from beating one of the big boys soon .

Twas a cracking effort from them!

Pathetic 2nd half........Smith and Hodgesons terrible and why wait til 5 mins from the end to sling it about...do it from start and Sheens totally out coached Mcbanna

The more I see it on slow mo..its a try.....cheating Aussie gets and how the hell did we not get a pen in the 2nd half.....time to stand up to the Aussies and say we want a neutral ref

I think if hall had claimed a try it would have been given,but he tried to touch it down again before it went dead,and didnt look like he'd scored.

macnamara got it comepletely wrong for me today. Not enough rotation in the front row - how many minutes did graham play? and too much in the back row meaning our props were out on their feet for the last 15 minutes, plus he didn't have clarke on the field for enough minutes. Thought our last tackle plays were poor and our halves don't offer enough.

I don't want to bag hodgson as he's a local lad but he's nowhere near international class IMO and that period he was on in the 2nd half we were devoid of go forward. If we'd had another decent hooker to interchange with clarke I think we could have probably won the game

Would've preferred J Tomkins or Ferres to be dropped after the Samoa performance,
surely Whitehead should come in.

The missed opportunity just before half time was a killer.

Very poor second half performance against the most ordinary Aussie side I've ever seen.

Agree about clark made a big difference when he was on,but what do we expect but poor decisions,when we have a clown like mcnamara as coach,I do
believe our current squad is as good as aussie and the kiwi's, and one of the best we have ever had IMO.

We lost because of our inability to change things. Once the Aussies brought Hunt on and moved Smith to 13 they grabbed the initiative. We should have countered this by taking O'Loughlin off and putting a prop at 13, brought Clark back on and just probed behind the ruck.
Sarginson was the only Wigan player to have a decent game. Smith was average and Tomkins, Charnley, Lockers & Farrell were very poor.
Shame we don't have a decent back up at FB because the golden boy has been woeful in this series.