**** poor.... AGAIN!
Despite my pre tournament worries about our backs (or rather lack of them) I still had such high hopes that we would see good performances from England but we have yet to see one!
Higham MOM by a mile for us yesterday and he's just an headless chicken who can't pass unless it's forward (kind of important when you're a hooker!) which just goes to show how poor we really are or at least have been so far. We have no kicking game, we lack pace in the backs (compare our back three with their Union counterparts yesterday and not only are we lagging behind the Aussies we are also lagging behind the other code in that respect) and we don't have a single halfback who can actually control a game.
When you look at our team on paper it doesn't look too bad until you realise that far too many of them are only in the team because there simply isn't any one else to play there.
I'm starting to question Smith's game plan or apparent lack of one apart from 'stand under the posts a lot'. Higham should never have been taken off yesterday when he actually had the Kiwis on the back foot and why oh why was Burrows playing hooker leaving the worst worst halfback combination in the world ever of Gleeson & Sinfield? Idiotic.
Hopefully next week we'll see both Roby & Higham in the 17 and it'd be nice to see Hock actually on the field for a reasonable amount of time because he's being criminally under-used at the moment and at some point England are going to have to do something different if they genuinely are to have any hope of turning this crap around and only Pryce, McGuire & Hock have the ability to actually pull something out of the hat.
Congrats to the Kiwis though on a good comeback. I thought you looked very, very good at times and fully deserved the win.
That diving twat Luke needs a bloody good kicking next week though!
