And in SL the same situation (rightly or wrongly) is sometimes called as a completed tackle, which is why I said 'could quite easily' rather than 'no way was it a try'.

Yep

I have never seen that called a completed tackle if the tacklers released contact.
What would the VR have called?

To come up with that reply you had to edit it twice

france dont have the stamina to go for 80 minutes..

New York, New York.

They got tired in defence but ANY side will get tired in defence if they don't complete sets. If they made 30% set completion second half I'll be very surprised.

any changes for the English you think next week?

More water carriers will be needed.

Sorry for not making my point clear, but there's been situations like that where the ref has directly called it a no try and not even gone to the video ref. That's all I was saying, i'm not saying it was a 'no try' rather that at that stage of posting, which was just after Ryan Hall's interception we could possibly have been 2 trys worse off than we were, i.e. we'd played some gash.

Replace every player with ones from any Flegg side

I've already said I think they'll have 60+ put of them. I've long moaned about the poor standard of the game in this country and it shows internationally. In my view they've dragged clubs down to the level of the teams that were at the bottom of the league regularly 5 years ago rather than brought those teams up to the standard of those at the top.

But we shall see, I may be surprised.

You never know.Bring back burrow,i like the way he plays.

Bilko, while you're here, has the DW Stadium scoreboard been tested for triple figure scores yet? It might be worth testing it out in preperation for next weekend.

I can see your point but it leads to other questions.
If he can pass all those questions then I say go for it but it he has a weakness in the FB position the Aussies will find it and rip him to pieces over it!

Can you call up to the squad once it has been named?

Wigan 106-8 Whitehaven - 2008

I hope not, isn't that game on the BBC?

Yes it has!

I thought France did very well bar the first 20 minutes of the second half. Losing Casty was unfortunate and if Ferriol and Baile are banned they will take a true hammering from NZ and Aus, which is unfortunate. Their kicking game was superb and Ferriol, Elima and Bentley were superb.

I thought the referee was incredibly harsh on France. He didn't let a thing go for them, yet he was willing to give England the benefit of the doubt several times.

For England I thought Roby, Peacock, Morley and Ellis were the standouts. I don't see why we need Roby from the bench, play him from the start, he can do the 80 minutes and England were a better team with him on the field. I thought Myler was the better of the half backs, not quite proving the doubters wrong but certainly more involved than McGuire. The backs were totally anonymous as expected but didn't let anyone down defensively.

sure lol!

My team for next week.

1. Eastmond
2. Hall
3. Smith
4. Shenton
5. Briscoe
6. Mcguire
7. Myley
8. Graham
9. Roby
10. Peacock
11. Ellis
12. Burgess
13. Sinfield

14. Tomkins
15. Morley
16. Carvell
17. Crabtree

ok im off to the gym,see you all tomm same time same place,which should be a cracker of a game.

Yes please

That side = England 0 Australia 60

Even with Hannah Montana pitching in at halfback