Timmah said:
Myler was close to MOTM the other night. You've got bricks in your head if you think they'll drop him.
:?
Maybe its just me but I thought Myler was ordinary against France. Those two tries just after half time were important but for 75 mins he was almost completely anonymous - not what you want from your next hope at seven.
The best 'half' out there for England was Sinfield, which says it all unfortunately.
I probably wouldn't drop Myler - most of the English fans seem to think he's a better kicker/organiser than Tompkins and they need someone other than Sinfield who can provide a bit of direction to compliment Maguire's (occassional) flair. But he'd want to put in a better performance against the Aussies for his sake, and England's.
Thing is that England, on paper, should be capable of doing a solid job against Australia in a similar way to the Kiwis. They have the quailty in the middle of the park, they have a good hooker in Roby, they have a better tactical kicker than the Kiwis in Sinfield. And while they don't have a match for Marshall in the halves and are kids out wide at the very least they should be able to provide some early ball to the centres every now and then and have their defensive structures down pat enough to prevent the terrible misreads which characterised their WC displays.
