What's with all these poor high kicks? Are they the super coaches big idea? Pathetic.

What's with all these poor high kicks? Are they the super coaches big idea? Pathetic.

Why the hell didn't they go for a DG?

What is wrong with f@@@@@@@ Watkins? Make a break and he runs and stands in front of the ball.

The kiwis could jump up and down on the tackled mans head, and that bottler Hicks wouldn't give a penalty.

Lack of brains out there. What a disappointment.

Captain bombed a couple of plays, needs better composure.

Bennett chose wrong captain. Burgess has played like a dick these last 10 minutes. Graham much more solid and consistent.

he's let them do what they like for the 80 in that respect, an aussie ref would have killed them

Pathetic game management

Poor game.

Another Aus/NZ final then.

Game management non existent, down to the very last tackle when the ball need to be kept alive and Watkins takes it short side!!

They won by a dropgoal that didn't go over. Absolute disgrace. Clueless in the last 10 mins

... and for years before that too.

Johnson the difference. England would have won easily were it not for him imo. shows the importance of having that x factor pulling the strings. miricale needed to make the final now

Lack of composure at the end again cost us.Not levelling the scores earlier when we had the chance, Widdop ignoring Gale and Watkins and throwing a looping ball to John Bateman on the break, they are not the sort of decisions that win test matches.

The guy was awful today. Seems like all the predicted weak links let the side down. I'd drop all 3 Burgess brothers for the Oz match, both centres and Widdop. How we fill those gaps is a different problem though. Oh, And I'd beg McNamra to coach the rest of the tournament.

Can't be criticising Watkins and upsetting the blue and amber folk



All in all a typical English performance. Matty Smith would've gone for th drop goal.

Thought the centres were awful today, did nothing between them and with wingers like we had today we should have been giving Jerry and Ryan Hall much more ball and giving them chance to run.
Sarginson is/was just plain crap and Watkins looked like he simply couldn't be bothered.

Half-backs were pretty anonymous apart from Gale's pointless high kicks.

We had no spark, no one just to come up with the eye catching play.

Thought Graham and McGillvary were our best players by a mile, can't really remember anyone else standing out.

I just don't know what we do in the centres, they were both awful today.

Anyone able to point out to me what Bennett brought to the table that Macnamara couldn't?

I am very fed up of drop goals.

Last three games.

My teams attempts, two. Scored, nil.

Opposition attempts, three. Scored, three.

Did you actually watch the game? Widdop made wrong decisions in the last 10 but was easily our most creative threat, Sam burgess was vital in getting our sets moving, and Watkins was quiet but still did far better than Sarginson.
Also if you can't actually believe we didn't look better today than last year under Mcbanana

I've not been impressed with Bennet but it's only two chuffin games.

Watkins just gets unnecessary criticism for England, by no means the worst performer today but gets picked out for some reason, if Widdop had got the ball to him on the break instead of Bateman then he would have been under the posts as there was only Harris in front of him