I think we just need to win even if it's ugly.

Bit like us in the gf.

do any pubs show premier sports round town

FANTASTIC PERFORMANCE BY SCOTLAND



BRILLIANT



THEY SHOWED ENGLAND HOW TO DO IT



Conditions awful, but the same for both teams.



The best match of the tournament by far.

Is there anything else Sam Burgess can do to help Australia beat England?

The standard of our passing is absolutely loving atrocious

Where's Clark? I've not seen one good bit of exploiting of space behind the ruck once today

I came on here, straight after the WCC games 2015, and said we (Super League) do the basics of RL, appallingly.



I'm not talking about knocking on with the line at their mercy, or forced passes.. I'm talking about the bread and butter passes. You have a set of six tackles, and in each set, you can guarantee there'll be at least 3 tackles where a pass will be round the receiver's ears/knees. The others will be dipping into player's hands. Counter this to the Aussie's passing. Crisp, and straight to players hands, at pace.



The sooner English RL gets back to basics, and we do some basic drills of passing and tackling, instead of doing video analysis and personal development classes, we'll ALWAYS be behind Australia (and NZ).



Quite simple, really.

Unless Clark is injured ,Bennett has made a major boo boo with his team selection today.He may play in the NRL but Hodgson seems pretty one dimensional to me.



Positives from the series though are Perceval, Lomax & McGillivray & i thought Williams & Brown were our best halves .

The saddest thing about today, was Burgess' post match interview, when he rolled out that old line "we weren't that far away"....AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH



Stop blowing smoke up your collective ar5eholes, and look at the scoreboard. We ARE that far away. Scoreboards don't tend to lie. I'd say the margin of defeat was appropriate. We were second best at everything.



p.s. If that was a Test Match level of performance from Widdop (especially first half, what a display of atrocious "kicking", that was), I'll eat my (and anybody elses) hat.



Pish.

our game as gone dull since this man as taken over

The defensive nature of the Aussie's game maybe an efficient way of winning games but I'm afraid it bores me to death. Today's game only came to life once the result was determined. I'd much rather we played an open game and entertained rather than trying to match Australian tactics. Go down with all guns blazing.

Absolute garbage! I want us to play to win, if that means grinding out that win then fine.



If we win it by playing expansive rugby great if not the armwrestle can also be entertaining.



Please elaborate on how expansive entertaining unstructured rugby has been successful for us as a nation and ourselves as a club in our quest for grand final success.....



Knowing when you can play expansive rugby is the key and when to break from structured sets.



WB's use of substitutes is strange but he is just getting started and knows what he is working with, he has eluded to it plenty in pre match interviews we need to learn how to win these games, we have the personal but fall short. I think there will be some changes made for the wc, playing in the nrl should jot just mean that u get into the England team.

We really don't have the personnel. The forwards match up OK-ish, but we are nowhere bloody near their standard in the backs, especially in the halves.

Get ready for a dull ride, fellas.



I was never a fan of Mcnamara. He'd just won us a series, yet we'd let him go. We all know Bennett's cV, yet the Aussie's didn't want him, because they preferred Meninga, so Bennett goes for our job, so he can try to get even. Great. Snapping up cast Off's, just to give him a chance to massage his ego.



We'd have been better bringing back Nobby Noble, our last coach to beat Australia. That's appalling. Not beating them in a decade.



Today we played a poor man's NRL style game, and surprise surprise, we came up short.



The only chance we have of beating them, is to play an old fashioned SL style of rugby. But our (current SL) game style is so stifled, and NRLlite, we don't stand a chance.



As I said earlier, we need to go back to basics, and learn to pass and tackle properly. It may take a couple of seasons, but so be it. When we do this, play as a passing team. Not an NRL boreathon, where little risks are taken.



I fear Bennett will merely see his substantial (it won't be cheap) contract out, and we won't be any better than we were a month ago.