lockers playing 6 for england against australia & bradford sign a crap australian no name halfback







whoever is coaching our kids.....NEEDS TO STOP NOW COS THEY ARE CRAP!!!!

Macnamara needs to stop coaching England...I thought the days of picking a 13 at 6 were long gone for us.



Ah well.

How many times have you seen him play?

How many oppurtunities has there been? There's no escaping the fact he's another NRL reject who wasn't deemed good enough by his team but is coming in to be Bradford's first choice. A bit like Patrick Caravan.

Its definitely negative, but O'Loughlin is there to hammer Lockyer. If he stops Darren from playing we have a chance if he doesn't then we have sacrificed a ball player and then look light on which players are going to unlock the Aussie defence. Its a risk, but lets see how it goes before asking for Macca's head.

But stand-offs don't man-mark each other. He won't be tackling Lockyer any more than anyone else.

If only that clown Mcbanana had picked one of the infinite number of British Stand Off's who are of international class.





Oh wait, there hasn't been one for about 20 years

Terrible, terrible decision to pick O'Loughlin at stand off for a test match, it was bad enough when we had to do it with Farrell (actually it was terrible then as we could have picked Martyn) and Scully, and they were both better LFs than O'Loughlin. It's like watching a car crash unfold, terrible, but ghoulishly fascinating.

indeed, Brown might not have been up to the job, but he was more up to it than Lockers...now we have a poor standoff AND a poor loose forward.

I know that, but I reckon he has included an extra back rower so that we can target Lockyer.

Possibly, but I'd have thought one extra big heavy bloke to run at is probably exactly what Darren Lockyer wants.

While I don't particularly agree with the decision to pick a forward at stand off, I don't understand your logic with the comparison to Farrell and Sculthorpe - if they were better loose forwards than O'loughlin, why does that automatically make them better stand off's as well?