Foden
*Yarde (he’s actually very good)
Eastmond
Burrell
*Ashton (can’t miss him out if on form)
Flood
Care
*B Vunipola
*Robshaw (it may be fashionable to dislike him but he’s indespensible)
*Wood/Clarke
Attwood
*Lawes
Wilson
Hartley/Webber (great showing in arg)
Marler
Kvesic just plainly isn’t that good. I’d be surprised if he ever gets a regular spot, there are better prospects coming through who I expect will overtake him. Morgan gets no start until he sorts his fitness out. Obviously Corbs and Manu get starts if fit.

Can I just post my favourite picture of Mike Brown here?

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Yes I do. He also seems to go looking to make tackles and chasing kicks like a man possessed. He just seems hungry again.

No Corbs 🙁 Youngs really struggles without strong scrumming props. Cole still hasn’t adapted to the new laws and his body position is awful. Vunipola scrums like someone half his size. It could be a torrid afternoon for the scrum. We have more power in the row now though (even better if it was Lawes & Attwood). Palmer and Parling aren’t the most grizzly of second rows. The front row is the same except MV in for Marler.

Sorry, my mistake, I was supervising a NAB and was bored 😳 Lancaster smarter than I gave him credit for in that case.

Could be worse did you see what happend to wales in the summer? Mind you Japan must be pretty good beat the team that were the last team to beat NZ. Japanby 20 this weekend.

Quade Cooper 😆

How old is that list?

Wheen Keet Wood and Willie John see it they’ll blow a gasket.

I’d find room for Folou and North and Dagg hasnt been great defensively recently.

England Legends v Australia on Sky now. How fit is Billy Whizz!?
Entertaining stuff.

Cooper was awful in the Rugby Championship though. Dunno why they kept picking him over Tamoua.

The Clancy Clown is ref. Dont expect an open flowing game. Good luck England I love seeing the crims lose.

It certainly is a slog.

Poor decision imo but get in!

I reckon Hartley was as fooled by the dummy as the Ozzies, which was why he stopped moving (and hence got in the way)(a bit)

12trees is as bad as I expected. Has he ever broken a tackle in his career?

Lovely.
Burrell for inside centre next game please.

Even so, the saxons team depresses me. Crane, Slater, Waldrom, Monye etc (a few examples) are all good players but the team should be brimming with bright young things preparing for a step up to the EPS. At 29, is Myler realistically going to break into the 1st XV?

Agreed, apart from one thing, Ed Slater is a very good player, who gets better every week, and is only 25.

England workman like. Yarde shows promise, Ashton still shite and neither centre can draw and pass. Dickson wasnt much cop. Billy V shows promise too, Wood was very good. Hartley has to start next up and I reckon Cole maybe on borrowed time Scrum looked more stable with Wilson on.
Australia were dogshit poor but will still beat Wales at the end of all this.
Sky Sports are a **** comedy act of one eyed shitness.

Let’s be honest, Farrell is never going to be a great. He’s currently the best we’ve got and will keep the shirt until we can breed a better FH. I thought the pack were very good today, no problems with lawes’ game at all.
36 is the most overrated player in rugby IMHO. Brown is immense going forward, we were lucky that his defence didn’t get tested too hard today. I’m not really worried, that 15 shirt is Anthony watsons soon enough I reckon. We still haven’t got an inside centre, and didn’t pass to him anyway. We may as well have got a couple of flankers and stuck them in the centre, although tomkins looked good in defence (didn’t get a chance to get the ball in his hand).

Weird match – neither side excelled at all. England flattered by the score IMO. Set pieces were weak. The ex-hooker in me makes it hard to watch Youngs inability to throw in and scrummage was also poor. But the most frustrating thing was the total lack of ambition in the back line. Watching live was odd – the back line was like an U11 side, No shape for most of the time – literally groups of 3-4 players in a group without shape or structure. And hard to remember any back move at any stage. I get so frustrated watching front row forwards playing at inside centre, and merely slowing everything down. Where is the speed, the dummy runners, the moves etc?

Disappointed that Lawes didn’t seem able to use his strength to break tackles. But Brown and Yarde really stood out especially Brown. Hard to see why he gets so much flak when he stood out so much today.

How did Farrell last so long? It would have been good to see Flood for whole of 2H.

But the mood and excitement did build in the end and we did finish the stronger team. Left the ground in good spirits but fearful of what the AB would do to this team in a couple of weeks.

Thanks Jambalaya!!!!