I'll have whatever you have been smoking

Myler didn't deserve a starting place if were honest..just wish players at least put their hand up and was counted for England. Australia were pretty amazing having said that!!

Eastmond should have attacked the line more, he did it a few times in the 1st half and looked dangerous. Myler and Mcguire would have offered nothing more than Tomkins and Eastmond, Smith was right to go with the 2 who started in the halves tonight. Ps made up for Ben Westwood, hasn't had a bad game this tournament, and put in some great defence tonight.

maybe it was a touch of sarcasm

Standing ovation in order.



Great performance considering the number of first teamers we had out - Wellens, Gardner, Gleeson, Senior, Calderwood, Long, Horne, Newton, Gilmour, Johnson pretty much a whole team of first teamers out. The young lads stood up and did a great job. Who knows what the score would have been if some of our first choice players had been there?

great bit of sarcasm but the original posters comments are quite true....they were very poor half backs.

the gap between the Tomkins and Easmond combo and Lockyer and Thurston is very very big.



Lockyer has been playing for a long time thats fair enough but if he was as ordinary as tomkins at the same age, he wouldnt have got a club jersey never mind an International one...



sorry for not towing the line over tomkins and Eastmond....

Nothing wrong with playing young'uns if they respond correctly. Tomkins and Eastmond will benefit from the game.



I really wonder how Bridge gets in the England squad, actually I know how





Westwood isnt an International full stop. Not a go at Wire, just an observation. Although he didn't do anything particularly wrong tonight, just nothing spectacular.



Our backline simply isnt as good as what the Oz throw at us. We can compete in the forwards we just need to bring in some backline talent...

Played well in all the games if not doing anything "spectacular" means hes not an International player then most of that team aint either.

thought ryan hall was a bit pants tonight to be honest

You mean like Chris Bridge the penalty machine that has constantly put his side on the back foot during this tournament, only a handful of England players can come out of this tournament with any real credit and most will know the ones that stood out.



Tony Smith`s last 2 game plans against the kiwis and against the aussies tonight looked like it was to play it down the middle in the main, looking at our backline and comparing it with the backline of the aussies you would have been foolish to try and take them on out wide.



It looked like we tried to play to our strengths which was our pack given that the aussies had one of the poorest touring packs of forwards ive seen for a fair while, Eastmond and Tomkins were basically feeding off crumbs given the lack of an expansive game from England, they looked like they were instructed to play to a tight game plan and it worked for a long while until we ran out of gas and couldn`t keep up with the speed of the aussies in the 2nd half.

Screw picking on individual players, simple truth, we are a million miles away from the likes of Australia, question is, why ?



Till we start fielding Super League teams of ENGLISH players, and less 'imports' - gonna be same old.



What was the stat tonight, only 50% of al SL players this year playing 5 or more games were English......



Outclassed,outplayed,outhought, and much fitter.......

rubbish