Bye bye McNamara : Sat Nov 23, 2013 2:58 pm  

Failed again. Miserably. Shame.

Third in a three team race. At home. Lol.

Re: Bye bye McNamara : Sat Nov 23, 2013 3:23 pm  

Nonsense. Best side lost today and Mcnamara for once picked the right team to do the job IMO.

Would have liked to see Burrow on the field for longer though, and why the hell didn't Sinfield drill the ball into touch on England's last set?!! would have prob been game over. Other than that he played well.

Gutted

Re: Bye bye McNamara : Sat Nov 23, 2013 3:26 pm  

mystic eddie wrote:

Failed again. Miserably. Shame.

Third in a three team race. At home. Lol.

No

Re: Bye bye McNamara : Sat Nov 23, 2013 3:31 pm  

What a kn.b you are mystic Eddie.
Fantastic game of rugby league , gutted for the England team and management.

Re: Bye bye McNamara : Sat Nov 23, 2013 4:22 pm  

BullCharge wrote:

No

Erm how not? I was being generous in giving them third given as they may have lost out to Fiji in a 3rd and 4th place play off.

England had two tough games, and lost them both. Home wins against the might of Ireland, Fiji and France hardly constitutes a success now does it? Given that the players themselves went on record as saying that anything less than the final was failure I hardly see how you think it is not?

McNamara's remit would have been the WC Final at least. Given that only 2 out of 3 teams were ever gonna get there and they are the spare part, he failed. Simple.

Re: Bye bye McNamara : Sat Nov 23, 2013 4:23 pm  

rambull1967 wrote:

What a kn.b you are mystic Eddie.

Many thanks.

Re: Bye bye McNamara : Sat Nov 23, 2013 5:35 pm  

You can always rely on his teams to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The man is a curse.

That said, cracking game.

Re: Bye bye McNamara : Sat Nov 23, 2013 5:41 pm  

Best England/GB performance for years, for 78mins.

A few England players looked to be over celebrating when we re-gained possession for the last time. The concentration seemed just a tad lacking from then on. The ball should have gone into touch on our last play and then we had the high tackle and the player running out of the line.

Magnificent performances from Sam and Graham.

Re: Bye bye McNamara : Sat Nov 23, 2013 5:49 pm  

I can't argue with how we performed today. But Macca has had 4 years at this and has failed at it.

Re: Bye bye McNamara : Sat Nov 23, 2013 6:12 pm  

Fantastic game. That finish was incredible but also heartbreaking. I feel it (the result) had a massive effect on the atmosphere for the Australia game.

My only question as regards to Steve Mac's strategy was why we only used 3 of our 4 subs?!