Learmonth was indeed #10. He only did one spell and was warming up again in the second half but was struggling and didn't comer back on.
Ward was very good considering his injury problems.

Hampshire should have played 6 and Williams at 7.

Falepaini was probably AIS best but they should have been beaten has England showed more composure.

England lost the game after AIS scored their second-to-last try. AIS really put the squeeze on and we got a little bit panicky, it was there where the game went away. Far play to us though, we kept at them for the full 80, and were rather unlucky not to pinch it. I thought the Currie offload to Ward(?) was harshly judged forward.

Decent game overall.

Learnmouth (sp) did ok in defence but thought Richards was pretty poor! To be fair though, thought the oz pack were pretty strong in attack and defence!

England's 13 Bateman was good! Thought Ben currie played well as did England's 12! But didnt think the 3/4 line was too good!

Learmonth was defo on in the 2nd half cos took a knock on his own line in defence with about ten to go! Did think the ball went to the 7 from saints a little too often who didn't have too good a game!

Both centres had poor games decision wise. I like Percival but twice in the second half early in the tackle count he gave his winger suicide ball and ran them into touch. On the plus side he scored a good individual try from close in.

The biggest disappointment was Yates at scrum half. His kicking and passing game was poor and he cost England the try in the first half. It was right in front of us. From a goal line drop out he pushed the centre (Saltonstall?) infield. Yates was still defending in the centre position on the last tackle. He charged out of the defensive line and the Aussie scrum half chipped the ball in behind him for the Aussie centre or winger to score.

England's 4 made some very poor decisions for a centre from the 1st to the last minute! Would have also played Connor Farrell over baldwinson (15?) too although only just moving up from 16's, for a big lad he got nailed and driven back every time he took the ball in!

Thought England deserved the draw at least, i wasnt overly impressed with the Aussies TBH, No way was the Ball from currie forward that brought about the disallowed try, i know he does this week in week out playing for the Wolves.

Agree about Danny Yates he sadly went missing and was out of his depth at that level, centres where awful and again agree with the bad decision making comments.

Our pack was pretty good Ben Currie looks dangerous with ball in hand and to me is wasted out on the left hand side, would like to have seen him given a more free role maybe at loose forward.

Williams at 6 again seemed to go missing, was suprised not to see Dom Speakman in there at 6 or at least on the bench.

One or two changes and i think that team would beat AIS If a 2nd match was played.

My biggest gripe is lack of creativity that is becoming a trait throughout the game as a whole we try to play this aussie machine like style of low risk rugby, when will we learn that the aussies do this week in week out, we (English teams) dont and we need to develop our own style of play.