one word 'farce'

spot on snowie, lets see young english lads playing, thats the only way the game can go

reason why the national anthem wasn't played was they didn't know whether to play waltzing Matilda the haka or god save the queen, if Broughy had played you could added I'll take the high road



you are English not a hybrid Antipodean European



in fact I'd rather put a card cut of Sam Burgess on the field if he wasn't fit to play

Why wasn't elima playing for england he's played more years in england than chase. British international RL is a joke

the English choice is a joke we just don't have the strength in depth and after a heavy season and some players suffer the knocks we haven't enough to replace them.



we have to revert back to the Great British Lions to have even the slightest of chances



France

water boys

There can't be any pride in pulling on that shirt anymore, its been soiled.

The blame lays fairly and squarely with the RFL for appointing a coach who other than at junior level failed in every position he held ! As a result we have to watch his desperate attempts to paper over the cracks and hide his failings, the team suffers his bizarre selections and our International reputation slides further into the mire.My big question is,when his charmed tenure comes to a inevitable end who replaces him and will the replacement have the guts to undo the damage thats already been done ? Also will the RFL allow him to ?

That was a predictably uninspiring performance - if there are cobwebs to be blown off or some bedding in of new partnerships or whatever, it all needs to happen sharpish, because the Aussies and Kiwi's will rip that team to pieces.



As for Chase, you'd have thought that given all the palaver surrounding his selection he'd have found it within himself to actually give a , but alas not - he put in his usual 'go missing for large swathes of the game' stint and had little or no influence on the game; for me, he's the definition of a big fish in a small pond and I suspect that why he stays at Cas - he'd never get away with only playing for half a game at a club like Wigan, Wire or Leeds.



Was anyone else a bit embarassed when the post-match interviews with 'English' players both had foreign accents?

Or maybe he wouldn't get a visa if he tried to go elsewhere, like Latu, due to his summer conviction.



I can live with the centre in the side, because he was born here and so will have English parents, an English extended family, and will have been brought up with the idea that England is his heritage.



It's ego time now for McNamara, and we've seen this before with international coaches. Does he concede now that he tried it and it didn't work out, that he went missing for a large part of the game, that two French attackers ran past him for tries as if he wasn't there, with not even an effort to tackle him, and so the loss is that he has to play an intried half-back team in the first real game (thankfully, against Wales)? Or will he do what they always do, keep playing Chase and Sinfield in the hope it works eventually and he can take the plaudits?



But it won't work eventually.

The jealousy and bitternes of polecat fans knows no bounds

How chase gets MOTM is beyond me

Me too, he was gash! Made me feel sick seeing him in an England shirt. McNamara has made a mockery of the national side, Chase and Heighington should be no where near the side, the ginger however, at least he was born here!!