Pat_Bateman:
It’s always the 50 minute game change. That’s when Aus clock up another gear and we can’t, always been the same since I’ve watched. We gave it a good dig, but when you’re playing a country who’s No 1 sport is RL, have 10 X’s the talent pool and 3 X’s the Cap I’m happy with what we achieved. RL barely scrapes into the top 10 for sports in the U.K.
Anyone bagging Johnstone in today’s game really don’t watch or understand RL. He’s up against the worlds best winger who out jumps the best the NRL have to offer week in week out. The balls he got off Williams would have been appalling if we were playing Serbia never mind Aus, hospital ball after hospital ball. McMeekan was decent.
Yeah, Big Mike did even better than I thought, and I originally thought he had a solid game. He made the most meters of any middle forward on either side and didn't miss a single tackle.
As for Tom, in both games, he completely handled what was meant to be the best winner in the game. As I said, Tom kept getting passes literally on the touch line and had to do something with them each time, so not to get dragged into touch. England hasn't a clue how to use either Tom or Dom. The backline needs to get flatter and play on the gain line, learn how to draw the opposition, and get the backrowers cutting angles in the opposite direction as either runners or dummy runners, stuff you get taught at U11's tbh..
