Disgraceful performance from GB.
They were clearly off the pace. Why they don't play a warm up match against France is anyones guess. No one to blame but themselves. They lacked cohesion and spirit in attack and defence.
Keiron Cunningham was superb, best player on the park. He created each of Johnsons tries and any penetration offered by GB in attack was spurred by him. Stu Fielden was also great, as usual. Those two can hold their heads up high.
The rest were woeful. Peacock, Morley and Ellis are good players who should do better. The backrow is a massive worry. The halves? Deacon and Burrow offered little, but Noble didn't give them much of a chance. Sinfield was woeful. People go on about Harris being slow but he couldn't have offerred any less than Sinfield, who did absolutely nothing.
The backs were all ordinary, except Pryce, who tried hard but had few chances.
All up, piss poor effort. It was always going to be hard without experienced guys like Farrell and Schulthorpe but there is no excuse for a performance as rudderless as the one we saw this morning. If they play like that next week we'll put 70 on them.
