The Watcher was sad to see England bottle it once again with some very silly decisions made at crucial times. Why did Sinfield not kick the ball dead with under 2mins left on the clock & why did Burgess choose to give away a stupid penalty in the last minute?

They didnt bottle it they played great thats why RL is the best game in the World

We blew it though,no matter how well we played.

We had plenty of chances to kill the game off,and lost our composure a bit at the end sadly.

The player can be proud of the performance,a great advert for the game with everybody talking about it,would have had unprecedented exposure if we had made the final,an opportunity missed.

How many people were screaming for Sinfield to just kick the ball in touch and give them a scrumdown in their on half. And he had a rush of blood charging out giving space for the last try.

Sinfield gets the blame, nothing new there.

I think the Watcher should find something else to watch or perhaps confront Sam Burgess or James Graham and tell them they bottled it.

Charlie thought England played very well , and I don't think Burgess CHOSE to give a Penalty away , it just happened , I say England didn't bottle it they lost to a very good team , and maybe didn't deserve to lose .

So Sinfield didn't charge out ? and he kicked it into touch to count the clock down. England definitely didn't bottle it and on the whole were a disciplined and good team. Unlucky to loose.

The Peawapp believes that the Burgess believes as does his Brothers their own publicity, and that they believe thanks to the rugby league press that they are untouchable, which they most certainly are not, and Peawapp is of the opinion that England would have won the right to lose the final to Australia but for the stupid Burgess Brother

I did Keith but after the initial downer I think I am happy with our endeavours. If Kev had a bad game I wouldn't have been pleased with the end but the boys were knackered and I take my hat off to each and everyone of them. I think that we have taken a hell of a lot out of that NZ team and am backing the Aussies to win by 20 next weekend

This from another forum:-

"Anybody criticising individual players or even individual plays should take a step back and recognise a committed and skillful team effort that came up heartbreakingly short"

The only thing you could add to that is "once again"



Good game good effort but let's use it like the Aussies would as a platform to improve and build on and not graze in glorious failure.

Totally.... anyone criticising an individual on todays performance isn't worthy of a reply. Top effort from England who didn't deserve to lose, now lets build on this.