Where you impressed or not by England in this one ? OK generally for mine but room from improvement in some areas.

will have to improve for next week obviously but went ok, sinfield,chase and tomkins linked up well

liked the westwood hit in the first few seconds on james!!

briers was poor in defence for wales.

Looked well organised on attack,though getting around Wales on the edges is a whole lot easier than getting around the Aussies.That's why still thinking Chase might be our main man next week,mainly because of his unpredictability.

I wonder what Cudjoe had to do to get picked over the pretty average Yeaman and the utterly anonymous winger outside him.


Put Sinfield at 13, drop Wilkin who is garbage at this level for Heighington at 2nd town a start Widdop at 6.

Much better team balance

id like to see cudjoe in instead of reed, reed made quite a few errors yesterday, first time ive seen him play though

couldnt see much in that performance to get excited about to be honest, agree that widdop should be at stand off we only really looked threatening when he came on, also agree about leroy far better than either centre imo.
Cant for life in me see what heighington has got that other 2nd rowers in england havent, looked a very average player imo, thought roby was very quiet too, not sure if he played all game but to me 80 mins is too much at that level for a hooker, chase for me was a waste of time, for once had to agree with davies the 2 half backs didnt gel at all, chase played nothing like the way he does for cas, seemed to be playing to a structured game plan instead of using his flair, the kicking game to me was average at best we kick like that against the other 2 teams we will be well beat imo.

Need to get back to being the simple game it is, get Sinfield back at 13, Chase back at 6 where he won MOS and should have had a scrum half in the squad.

Brough at 7 and Chase at 6 would cause Aussies alot more problems than Chase at 7 and Sinfield at 6 IMO

It would have been good to have Leroy's flair in there on one side of the pitch.

The biggest improvement needed after yesterday was the ruck area defence.
Defence in general,often they were taking just a couple of paces forward then stopping and waiting for the ball carrier to come to them.

Sam Burgess is going to be a big miss against ANZ.We didn't dominate Wales up front in the way I expected.

cant really tell how good or bad we are looking because of the poor quality of the opposition.
in reality games against the likes of wales and france, with respect are nothing more than glorified training sessions.

Agree. Staggered at choice of Sinfield at 6, too slow! Widdop has played 6 for Melbourne all year, he has to play. Chase is too individual in test matches. How can he pick Wilkin, appalling in both games, too small, will be crushed by Aussies and kiwis, look at the size of their loose forwards! Props too old now.

Thoughts our halves did okay myself,but as Mart says against ANZ it's just a whole new ballgame.The halves operated mostly either side of the ruck when it was in the middle channels,Chase on the left,Sinners on the right.Agree that after past experience thought Sinners was too slow at international level but he looked to be up to the task last weekend,hitting the runners and kicked well,turned them around.Up another couple of levels in pace for him this Saturday though can he hack it then.Plus the halves combined well enough to put Yeaman over on the left flank in the first half.Widdop did look good when he came on admittedly.

I would def keep Chase in at 7,he might make some blunders,or poor decisions,but then a bit of individual skill from him might lead to a try for himself or another.That's what the Aussies don't like,something unpredictable.

The last time we nearly beat Aus in the 2009 FN Final we played split halves,STomkins on the left and Eastwood on the right and all these two guys did was step and go when they got the ball.It nearly worked despite Aus blowing out the board in the end,it gave them all the trouble they could handle,but on that day we had Sam Burgess ploughing up the middle creating the space,not sure the props we have now are capable.

thought it was boring and i actually turned it off midway through the 2nd half.....was never going to be anythign other than a Biggish England win really and it showed with the intensity

Think we will get absolutely stuffed against Oz and the Kiwi's won't be far off battering what's left - the speed, size and intensity was far too good, not to mention the skill levels, which are on a different level.