England V Samoa, may 2017

[The Partisan]

C'mon England .....finish with a couple of classy tries and head for home (be that Canberra, Bondi or Batley !)

Called it

 

[roughyedspud]

As much as I want England to lose and Bennett sacked....England will win by 16+

Good hit out for England but still work to do

 

[adamkungl]

Bennett won't be happy with the 2nd half methinks.

Better control would have put that game to bed after 60 mins

 

[Force]

Samoa were poor, particularly in that first half, some of the 5th tackle options were poor. Thought they would've did better than that.

 

[deluded pom?]

Can't fault the stream to be fair

Is that the stream you weren't going to watch?

 

[Clarkent]

England played well tonight disappointed with my Samoan team no structure no extra urgency on defence... maybe they need a new coach? Hopefully they come up with a better game plan come world cup time... no point of having a team full of stars and you don't play as a team... England followed there game plan well tonight... Wayne Bennett must be doing something right

 

[adamkungl]

Samoa need a coach, halfback and hooker

 

[BuderusIsaBeast]

I was stunned Asiata got so few minutes especially as they were struggling to create. Very disappointed with Samoa's performance but England were very strong

 

[Clarkent]

Samoa need a coach, halfback and hooker

Yeah your right... our starting hooker got injured two days ago... Nu Brown our halfback didn't really get going tonight and I think we do need a new coach... we should've taken Bennett when he said he prefers to coach an island team before he took off to england... all power to england tonight they played awesome... they would've beaten the kiwis team tbh

 

[MKCS]

We aren't going to beat Australia by picking Aussies that aren't or never where good enough for Australia..

Correct. McQueen has been bog average for about 3 years now and you absolutely don't need him. Same deal with Chris Heighington. I'm sure you have a better prop and second rower playing in the Super League.

Thankfully you won't be taking Heighington to the World Cup, McQueen just may make it though...

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Bennett won't be happy with the 2nd half methinks.

Better control would have put that game to bed after 60 mins

England are a quality side but that first 15 mins of the second half is where Australia regularly run up points on them. Might be something they need to focus on

 

[Force]

Correct. McQueen has been bog average for about 3 years now and you absolutely don't need him. Same deal with Chris Heighington. I'm sure you have a better prop and second rower playing in the Super League.

Thankfully you won't be taking Heighington to the World Cup, McQueen just may make it though...

McQueens contribution was a dropped ball with his first touch and missed tackle.

 

[MKCS]

McQueens contribution was a dropped ball with his first touch and missed tackle.

Yeah, he offered nothing. Probably England's worst on field.

 

[adamkungl]

England are a quality side but that first 15 mins of the second half is where Australia regularly run up points on them. Might be something they need to focus on

That's been the story for years. Competitive for 60 mins but a terrible lapse period where Inglis and Boyd run rampant.

Yeah, he offered nothing. Probably England's worst on field.

To literally no one's surprise

 

[Pommy]

To literally no one's surprise

Tom was playing so I was surprised.

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Good on England for making the trip down, but it would be so much better if we could create an NRL-free window during Origin and have them down to play a 3-game series against the Kiwis in NZ...

 

[roughyedspud]

That's never ever going to happen.....

From what I understand,next season when one origin game moves to a Sunday the Pacific tests & NZ v ENG will happen on the Friday & Saturday of the same weekend..

That'll be a awesome weekend

 

[Pommy]

That's never ever going to happen.....

From what I understand,next season when one origin game moves to a Sunday the Pacific tests & NZ v ENG will happen on the Friday & Saturday of the same weekend..

That'll be a awesome weekend

I was thinking perhaps it would be good if we could play NZ every two years and in the in between years the two sides play an island nation like Samoa, Fiji or Tonga.
The only way sides will get better is if they play better opposition more regular.

 

[roughyedspud]

And we need to get better too...so we need to play nz

 

[Pommy]

Which we will do at the end of most years also.