Quote cherrydevil="cherrydevil"I agree. If you ignore the hype and look at performances this is quite possibly the worst Australia side that I have seen. The forwards are very poor and I would take New Zealands or Englands forwards any day.
The backs, bar Inglis and Slater, havent done anything special. I have always been a huge fan of Lockyer but he hasnt done much so far, compared to the Lockyer of old, and it looks like age has caught up with him. Thurston has also been quiet. The only players that look special at the moment are Inglis, Slater and Smith where as in the past Australia would have had numerous players in this category.'"
It's one of the worst Australian squads I can remember
There isn't a single forward in that squad that the English should worry about, a good workman like six but when you think of Australian forwards like Cleal, Sironen, Clyde and more recently Webke, Tallis and Mason you realise how ordinary they are
However, they do have 4 or 5 outstanding players in Cam Smith, Lockyer, Thurston, Inglis and Slater...
As a lot of threads say today, we can win this game and would do well to keep it tight and brutal as I think we can overpower them
It's bizarre to think like this as in the past we have always said England (GB) can compete for 60 minutes but the Aussie would come strong in the last 20 - I feel next week that England can get over the top of them in the last 20... but we need to be in the game at that point
and about another 5 slater clones aswell 
