Roby; poor. Eastmond; fantastic.



Despite what Wiganers may sat about Tomkins, England looked compete when Eastmond was at first/secondr eceiver.

Complete shy te more like. England are terrible. The coach is an idiot and the players were terrible. We are so far behind them it's not funny, they were humouring us in the second half, you could see them falling about laughing at half time, no need for a gee up or a technical team talk, we're no more than a bunch of easy beats to them.



If Australia had a reason to play at 100% against us, they would probably get three figures.

Usually, your posts are despondant to the point of satire.



Tonight, however, I can't disagree. Aussie RL has developed into a virtually different sport to Super League on today's evidence.

The gap has never been wider.



The RFL, hopefully, will now be ashamed of what they've done this season.



We've had to endure a horrifically dull and boring season in the interests of 'competitiveness' and the only justification would have been to compete better with the Aussies. If the gap was closing I could understand.



Unfortunately it's not, so if we're going to get lashed by them in the internationals anyway, can we just have our free-flowing explosive rugby league back on a weekly basis please?

2nd November 2008 Australia 52 England 4.

Today was an improvement.

I disagree. If Australia had been humouring us in the second half then why all the petulance from some of their players? They were rattled. They even dropped ball. (My God! Australia, drop ball?!?) Thurston was a pain in the backside and deserved his yellow. And had they had the chance they would have tonked us, just like they did in the world cup. Australia won't just take a win; they'll take a big score if it is offered up to them. We offered it up to them in the first half but not in the second.



In the first half we were shocking. In the second half we looked like a team who wanted to win. Damn shame about Graham's forward pass as that could have been another try.

I actually thought that most of the team were a match for the Aussies. The majority were let down by some woeful positional play and tacking by Smith and Maguire. The coach must also take some criticism. Why did it take him 40 minutes to realise that there was a problem with the RHS defence and change things?

Spot on.



He should have pulled Briscoe off, stuck Lee Smith on the wing and brought on Eastmond after the second try, IMO, or at the latest the third try. Clearly the Aussies had sussed a weakness and exploited it.



Interesting that that was the only way they won any points. Had coach Smith been more astute, he would have sorted it in the first half and perhaps closed off a leak. Fans all around me were screaming for the change.

Please don't bury your head in the sand - if the Aussies hadn't put their cue on the rack at half time it would have been similar to the score you mentioned. They absolutely ripped us apart - on our own midden.



28th October 2006 Australia 12 - 23 GB - do you think the present lot would have done that?

You really think the Aussies would do that? Bollox, is what I say to that idea. If they could have tonked us they would have, just as they did a year ago and previously. In the second half they couldn't do us so instead they started getting petulant.

If coach Smith had plugged the leaky right wing in the first half instead of waiting for 26 points to build up first then who knows what this England team might have done?

You're right they ripped us apart in the first half, but seriously you know absolutely nothing at all about Australian rugby league if you think they deliberately didn't play in the second half. Their whole ethos is to win, and win by as large a margin as they possibly can. If you know anything at all about Jarryd Hayne, Justin Hodges, Billy Slater etc you will know in the second half they were clearly frustrated and were by no means sitting back chuckling and letting England play.