Common sense says play the same team who beat samoa in the 1st match

If he played different team and lost people would be saying whys he changed it so wane literally couldn't win

Welsby was the best player last time

Gotta remember samoa have 5 or 6 grand final winners from NRL who walked in the origin team and starred in the origin ( luai, Crichton, to'o )

And I hope samoa win next week

Wasn't just Welsby, Watkins, Bateman, McIlorum and Young all had a poor game. Even so, could have been so much different if Whitehead had taken the tackle at the end of his break. A drop goal would have won it at that stage.

Common sense you don't play an average hooker, who didn't have one good game and offers nothing in attack.

Agree about Samoa winning it, don't think they will get close unfortunately

Roby and Clark are better than mcilorum 100%

But mcilorum offers some defensive aggression but for some reason was getting run over the top against samoa

But he's still a class above Houghton hence why Houghton has never had a full international cap or got close really

He isn't, the main reason he has caps is that he played for Wigan.

Both are solid SL hookers nothing more, England have failed for years, so I'm not sure England caps are a measure of how good a player is.

Because they went at him all game to tire him out because Wane got the bench wrong.

Some players will have played there last world cup for England , Time to move on Tompkins , Hill , McIlorum , Whitehead.

Don't think Whitehead has ever got the credit he deserves, he's consistently one of England's best performers.

Hopefully Newman can get over his injury problems because him and Herbie together could be our centres for the next decade.

We've got Wardle at centre too. Hopefully he can fulfil his potential

I think Whitehead is a fantastic player both for club & Country , but he'll be 36 when France 2025 comes around .

Gutted for the women in their semi final , but some of the players just didn't perform tonight . Far to many errors , poor defence & kicking game handed the Ferns an easy win imo . Hopefully they can build again and come back even stronger for the next world cup . Really enjoyed watching some of the games in the Womans comp .

I think a couple of them bottled it up against the bigger Kiwi side. They played far too far from the defensive line. They have an exciting back line, but I don't think they are well coached from Richards - leaving out some key players from the squad

Whenever I have seen a WSL game there has hardly been any wrestling after contact and we didn't know how to deal with it.
The passing from hooker was really poor, Yorks number 9 must be injured or something as she's easily the best 9 I've seen in the WSL.

I thought England were well beaten but the second rower who played at 12 was excellent with some great cover tackling and strong running. The half backs didn't really show though and how Jodie Cunningham gets picked is beyond me I am sorry to say.

Apparently there's a couple of players that don't see eye to eye with Richards , Sinead Peach is one of them .

That wheelchair final was superb. Clutch play from the England captain to win it at the end.

Excellent stuff!

Twas very good. Some strange ref decisions at times.
That Jack Brown was class

Australia on another level.
Any chance we can get Liam Martin for our 2nd row.

No quota spaces left, otherwise I'd happily take him

Yeah I think we’d need more than one out to get him.
The Aussie player’s fitness is incredible,
Tedesco after match interview, looked like he’d hardly broke sweat.

They are the team to beat no doubt

But samoa had some awful calls

But that non 40/20 was massive samoa did great first 20 minutes

Angus should of been sent off 100% based on this season

"Martin try" lost the ball went up as no try how did he give it ?

T'oo tackled in the air 1st half aussie ball

How did the best full-back in the world get on?

Martin’s try was good all along, let go with his right as he was grounding with his left. 40/20 was a terrible call, what do you expect from an English ref. Chrichten 10 minutes was always going to be the decision, the commentators suggested he was defending himself. I often wonder whether you watch the same game as us Earthlings.

Defending yourself sticking a elbow in a players face



Meant the samoa player failed head test so we're a man down and Australia get 10 minutes punishment