Correct.
Hopeless.

Real poor second half performance from England.

Rugby League fans in "ref having a shocker" shocker. Then again, you are a Hull FC fan...zzz

The Lebanese aren't a bad side, people are selling them short, they have a few players better than the English or the same level, they just fall down a bit for depth

Dreadful performance from England. One of the dullest games I've ever seen.

Is Roby injured? He has to play next week if fit.
HTF did Hodgson get man of the match?!

The second half has been a snoozefest.

For those who seemed to think the ref in the Aus v England game was somewhat poor go watch it back and compare against Thaler tonight.

The difference was night and day.

Don't for one second think it will happen but id personally like to see ;

Gale dropped for Williams
Roby to play 80 minutes (just not keen on Hodgson's style)
Heighington dropped, Bateman to move into second row
Hill dropped for Taylor
Percival in at centre

I'm not sure Gale is good enough at international level.

I thought England were hard done to last week.

This week England’s hands on the ball should have seen about five or more penalties go against us but they went against Lebanon.

Awful!

So you agree, he was awful?

Have we even got a backup winger if McGillvary gets banned???

That forward thinking coach has taken a grand total of two wingers in the whole squad.

Well done Bennett

gale isn't anywhere near good enough at this level and it's affecting our organisation and execution. drop him and try williams and widdop there next week. Do we only have 1 real centre in the squad? Why are we playing a 34 year old australian prop when front row is probably our strongest position?

I think we were better under macnamara

To be fair to Gale, Hodgson's distribution was so slow the halves had no time on the ball. It was the same last week until Roby came on.

Dave Woods is just a sh it commentator full stop, still clueless after all these years and talks absolute cack.

I like Dave Woods!

That was poor in many ways. Two really weak links in the team - Bateman and Gale. Unless we sort those two positions out and have someone more dynamic at stand off, we're not getting anywhere near winning if we reach the final.

Just wondering; where are all the complaints about not having a neutral ref this week? Or does it only count if they are not English?

Seriously though, this Thaler bloke is absolute rubbish. Spoiled what should have been a really good game.

I know theres one rather than two officials in the middle but monitoring of the ruck should still be better than what weve seen in the last two England games. The interference from Lebanon was blatant and would surely have resulted in yellow cards if done in SL.

I think Thaler's refereeing highlights a big reason why we are behind the NRL. The aussie/NZ refs only give an infringement if its blatant or definitely affects the game, whereas ours just use the rulebook and no judgement. This results in our games being interrupted far more frequently, and hence our players not being used to the long 20 minute penalty free periods that have occurred in some of the games being officiated by their antipodean colleagues. If theres one thing the RFL need to take away from this tournament its to stop our refs being petty and realising that their over enthusiastic whistle blowing is probably the biggest factor holding the British game back. Our players never develop the physical or mental fitness required to compete at the top level because of the difference in the stoppages of play.

Interviewing Bennett is hard work. Jeez wouldn't like that job.

Bennett is an .

Hahaha Bennett's interview was class. He treats the media with equal contempt.