Did you not see his pass for the try?

Shocking pass from Widdop. So far he's completely anonymous yet again in an England shirt.

Why are you watching downo?

Widdop already being lined up as the scapegoat whilst Gale does no wrong

This is looking ominous. Second half could be a bit of a horror show.

Yep, Gale is very poor so far.

Not sure about good defence. England look weak and are falling apart. Gale is another who just ain't good enough.

Conditioning is woeful, we are knackered already.

Not helped by the kicking game getting us barely out of our own half.

Gale and lomax have been poor. Kicking game is atrocious. They are lining their back 3 up and were picking them up easily. Why don't we do that?

England look knackered. Shows how far behind the Aussies we are.

Quiet friday night, nothing else on, but like everyone else, far from excited

Constantly loosing the collision and line speed not good enough.

That said, Aussies getting away with an awful lot of lying on and then we get pinged.

This is a different sport to the whistle-happy SL

Their first try comes off a massive forward pass the tackle before and the second off a ridiculous penalty.
Sure we're poor kicking wise and frankly our tackling and ball retention is equally rubbish but ffs officials making it tough already

, not even half time & the excuses are being trotted out

If Lomax was brought in to FB I would have had tomkins ahead of him every day of the week

Billy Slater sure is a joy to watch.

And again the ref misses the touch by an aussie hand for 6 more

Reality not excuses, shocking forward pass missed and as highlighted by commentators and SOL the penalty at the ruck was contra to everything both sides had been doing/allowed to do
You're the better team by far, making easy metres, better kicks, attack miles better but you don't need poor decisions from the officials to win it.

hahahaha oh my

Our try came from a ridiculous forward pass too!

How on earth is that missed at this level?

That said, those half time stats are damning. 13/17 sets completed and 33 missed tackles is just terrible.

3 of our senior players in SOL, Graham and Widdop have made awful errors at keys places on the field.

A defensive full back would help. Lomax is awful in defence. He stood and watched the first Australian try right in front of him. He offers a lot in attack but not enough to counterbalance.

Key difference is SL players are used to 2-3 secs extra at every PTB while they beg the ref for a penalty where AUS just want to get off the deck and play quick.

No it didn't, but if by your viewpoint it did the forward pass for the 1st aussie try was a gridiron style pass by comparison.
Ours was flat at the worst.