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Why not just play him on Saturday as we have only one recognised winger in the team. But that would be too simple

Regan Grace has obviously been taking the same invisibility potion Mark Percival has taken. The lineups Bennett have come up with have been shambolic. McGillvary & Hall is a wonderful name for a solicitors in a novel. It is no longer a viable wing partnership in professional rugby league.

Indeed. Can't argue with that

Blake Austin is rumoured to be starting the game on the wing

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Not many people know this, but Chris Hill used to be a winger.

And that could be where he is playing before the end of the tour or maybe, drop him in at centre, a position that playing centre for your club no longer seems relevant.
It's like we've gone back 25 years.
Bring back McNamara

- I'm half joking here but, he's was taking England forward and currently, we are in reverse

Hopefully Bennett will be gone after the PNG game, which we will probably lose as well.

We are having a poor series at the moment but 2 years ago we were an ankle tap away from being in a great position to win a world cup and last season we won a series against the Kiwis.

True but it was still boring to watch. It was only entertaining as our games were tight. The selections for this tour have been odd, and he has always had a thing for playing people out of position, Bateman in the centres etc.

Personally think we'd play much better with Powell as coach, or Watson.

Wayne Bennett's selection pool for this squad was every English, Welsh, Scottish or Irish player playing rugby league in the world.

Against New Zealand it looks like we will have an Australian halve playing on the wing for us.

He's got just about everything wrong from the minute he selected the squad.

Bennetts selection of Austin on the wing is as bad as Baldricks "cunning plan" ideas off Blackadder.

Maybe we would have been better with Gordon instead of Wayne

Agreed, or even Alan !

Not even picked in the squand for the final game. That was a good use of money to fly him out and then not pick him.
Got to feel for the lad

I get the feeling Bennett is aware of the criticism of him and is trying to get himself fired. Also wouldn't surprise me if that fool Sinfield has already renewed Bennett's deal and just hasn't announced it. Picking the same squad, when you've got players there who have trained all tour and not played and given the performance of those players throughout the series, is just ridiculous.

Calling up Ash Handley then not playing him in favour of Blake Austin on the wing is perhaps one of the oddest decisions I've ever come across in professional sport. Mind blowing really. I think someone should @ Greta Thunberg on Twitter and get her to demand Bennett's resignation.

Is anyone really going to buy tickets for the England v Australia games next season if that fool is still in charge?

To a daft bloke like me, I t seems that Austin should have been playing in the halves (probably at the expense of Widdop) and having flown Handley halfway round the world, he should have been playing on the wing.

One thing severely lacking in the GB side is pace and whatever other shortcomings Handley may have, he's pretty quick.

Although PNG should be much easier to get past than the Kiwis or Tonga, we're not helping ourselves.
Austin on the wing is just ridiculous.

Bennett is clearly way past his sell-by date.

It’s just embarrassing

Bennett totally lost the plot (that's if we ever had one to start with).

What has Sinfield done to warrant "That fool"?

Who is this Josh Handley that bennett keeps going on about?

Ash Charnley's half brother!!!

What has he done to warrant the positions he's currently occupying? He was a very good top level player. But we've seen so many times in professional sport that a quality player doesn't always make a quality coach or administrator. He's done nothing to warrant the positions he holds at Leeds and the RFL/England/GB and looks completely out of his depth in each of them.

What are you basing this on?, you have literally no idea what he does day to day in these roles.

I bet you thought he was overrated as a player too didn't you?

To be fair, he sacked the most successful coach in the SL era, took over himself but appointed an assistant to act as head coach. Appointed a high cost replacement with a big reputation, then sacked him. The appointed the head of youth as an interim replacement, but appointed the interim full time dispute a poor record.

He has also oversaw the worst GB tour of a generation, is the Director of a failing super league brand and has just sacked the GB coach, who is also the England coach, during the period designated to prepare for a World Cup, for which he will probably have to sack the same guy and appoint a replacement, 12 months into a 4 year plan.


In summary, it’s not going well.