has super duper jack reed touched the ball yet?

Created the first try with a good offload...

good? or a run of the mill pass?


yeaman pass to put briscoe in was better...alot better

i'd love that band to start playing the godfather tune....that would be awesome lol

Decent crowd in, if only the French could get it together on the pitch.

If only England could get it together on the pitch!

There you go

good try.......just like joel tomkins at wembley

How much of an idiot do you now feel?

What do you have against NRL players?

its the only thing he's bloody done lol.......and like i said joel tomkins can do that too...

that they are'nt as good as most of you think they are...

Pathetic defending from England

Reeds try had a very similar look to Chris Ashtons try v Aus

Can we withdraw from the 4Ns or is it too late?

WTF
Chase MoM

Well that was crap!

Back to the drawing board

I wouldn't know but good try.

Apart from an assist in the first minute you mean?

Joel Tomkins didn't want to be picked. That's the difference between the two.

team for next week should be

1. Sam Tomkins
2. Ryan Hall
3. Jack Reed
4. Kirk Yeaman
5. Tom Briscoe
6. Gareth Widdop
7. Rangi Chase
8. James Graham
9. James Roby
10. Jamie Peacock
11. Gareth Ellis
12. Ben Westwood
13. Jon Wilkin

14. Adrian Morley
15. Chris Heightington
16. Gareth Carvell
17. Kevin Sinfield

Widdop needs to start at 6, get heightington off the bench for impact in the back row he seems more of a second rower than a loose forward for me.

I have a funny feeling Sam Tomkins is going to have an almighty tournament. I understand the reasons why he went off but he was no doubt the best player on the field today.

To be honest that was the nearest to a perfect game England could have wished for a warm-up. If we had have blown them 70 -0 everyone would have been moaning about it just been France and it woukdnt have done England any good.

We look pretty good in defence in the first half with France paying some half decent stuff. We slipped away in the second half but i would rather we did it this week than against OZ or NZ. Still plenty to work on.

Ona nother note, i found it a bit cringe worthy with all the interviews of the "English players" having aussie or New Zealand Accents. Doesn't potray us in a good image.

Rangi Chase is not English. His selection is a disgrace to the people of England, and an insult to young English players.

No one really stood out for me. Westwood was impressive again, and Graham led the way with some big carries but we still lacked anything out wide for most of the game and switched off a couple of times. Chase didn't have an awful match but how he was MoM I've no idea - by the look on his face, neither does he.

Don't disagree but I'd rather it was because the French were really good than England being disjointed, sluggish, unimaginative or to cut it short we were Crap!