Shocking decision there. No support from the TJ.

Joel Tomkins is getting driven back every time NZ run at him. McNamara needs to take him off now.
Not wait until be concedes a try

Great try, but got lucky again with a forward pass call earlier in the set.

Vatuvei terrified of Charnley drops the ball. Then skins him.

Need to cut out the silly slowing down last tackle penalties - same thing killed us last week.

Great assist from S O'L to make up for it though!

O'Loughlin, world class ball.

Charnley 1, Vatuvei 0

He also made Vatuvei knock on, I'd say it's 2-0

And again a silly penalty puts the opposition in our 20 and in a scoring position.

England hand ball over with Tomkins risking crazy offload then Whitehead concedes a penalty - both led to New Zealand try.

It was worth a go.

We've looked very slow and flat in the last 5-10 minutes. Lack of reserve hooker costing us?

Big five minutes here. Kiwi's getting on top.

Quote ="Wigg'n"It was worth a go. We've looked very slow and flat in the last 5-10 minutes. Lack of reserve hooker costing us?'" Ferres played Hooker a number of years ago and is playing it today by the look of it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Ferres

Quote ="Wigg'n"It was worth a go. We've looked very slow and flat in the last 5-10 minutes. Lack of reserve hooker costing us?'" Ferres played Hooker a number of years ago and is playing it today by the look of it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Ferres

Very poor kick chase again this week and no pressure on their kicker which is the only way they look dangerous.

Agree. Johnson being given far too much time.

Looking like its going to that tired old script, we compete then silly penalties & errors costing us.

Bingo....

Hopefully they can turn it round - without the silly errors and penalties, we've been the better team again, just like last week - but Oz and Kiwis are far too clinical to keep inviting them into our half.

Also not impressed by Tom Burgess. He plays very few minutes and doesn't offer much in terms of making yards when he's on. Maybe i'm being harsh and comparing him to George but he's nowhere near his brothers level.

We look much the better team with the ball, but I'm concerned about the intensity in our defence.

Shouldn't say it but if only we had Sam Burgess and James Roby in the 17...

He's the 2nd top metre maker in the competition behind Graham...

Think we have probably the best overall set of front rowers in the competition, they wouldn't look out of place in green and gold.

Another enjoyable half.

We should have put more points on them in that first 25 minutes really and we are still our own worst enemies at the most crucial times but we look dangerous.

Farrell too wooden with the ball. Gets set up lovely into a gap but there is never a chance of him passing despite a chance of an overlap.

If Vatuvei catches ball 10 yards out, Charnley cannot stop him. But the real danger man for England to contain is Shaun Johnson.