Enjoyed that first half.
BBC presentation leaves skys in the dust
Hardaker is garbage.
They were saying earlier it was a sellout crowd but it looks half empty????
With my Saints specs on, we seem to very scrappy when Walmsley and Knowles went off. Bateman doing OK though.
Someone beat me to it but still , i wish that SKY had a commentator as good as the woman who commentated on the womens game but for the super league.
Don't think this ref should be doing internationals. Seems out of his depth
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How does the ref manage to get Lomax and Farrell mixed up with the yellow card.
How a so called international centre can’t do the basics of drawing a man and passing to his winger I don’t know.
Just watching RL forum on BBC and noticed Knowles is on crutches in a boot hobbling around.
Humans are more concerned with having than being.
Hardaker was awful. On at least two ocassions in the first half a simple pass to Tommy Mak would've put him through to score, instead inexplicably Hardaker decided to keep the ball and cut inside to take the tackle! Davies also had a poor game, sure he scored a "Makinsonesque" try, however he bombed at least two. As has been observed by other posters, the England performance dipped whilst Alex was off the field and picked up again upon his return. Bateman did okay but with his temperament still not skipper material for me. Enjoyable watch and plenty to build on for Wane.
I thought Bateman was at fault for both the French tries, got beat at marker for the first then the howler for the second.
For what it’s worth, I thought Lomax was excellent. He was getting early ball to the right centre and wing with some effect and seemed to have more space to work than when he plays for us. The French didn’t seem to know that he should be the most closely marked player on the pitch.
Enjoyable afternoon of Rugby.
Both French sides showed grit.
Plenty for England to work on but for a squad with no NRL player's and only 3 day sessions , a scrappy win in France is always welcome.
On the Lomax sin-binning, what is the convention on owning up to committing the offence?