Sat 28th Oct: International: England v Tonga KO 14:30 @ Huddersfield (BBC)

[DavidM]

Fair to say it’s not been one of young captain Elton’s best days 

[GeordieSaint]

FFS Welsby. Get some bostik on your hands…

[bratman]

Welsby has struggled to get involved 

[dkw]

Excellent defence.

[bratman]

Been impressed with Smith, good defence as well

[Dunbar]

Just now, dkw said:

Excellent defence.

The difference between the teams today has been the organisation and enthusiasm of the English defence.

[EagleEyePie]

6 minutes to go but both teams look completely out of steam

[dkw]

1 minute ago, Dunbar said:

The difference between the teams today has been the organisation and enthusiasm of the English defence.

Noble finally got something right when he called the England defence "composed" just now.

[Trojan Horse]

14 minutes ago, StandOffHalf said:

Terrible left-to-right pass from dummy-half by Welsby for the Radley knock-on.

Welsby has been very poor today. Mistakes and often fluffing overlaps and taking wrong options.

[Dunbar]

Just now, dkw said:

Noble finally got something right when he called the England defence "composed" just now.

Well we are 75 minutes into the game.  It was due.

[DavidM]

1 minute ago, Dunbar said:

The difference between the teams today has been the organisation and enthusiasm of the English defence.

Indeed . We’ve been strong defensively . Attack wise though I think we should be more than 10 points ahead with how bad they’ve been

[StandOffHalf]

Surely that was a high tackle on Burgess after he claimed the chip kick.

[Archie Gordon]

Difference is fitness and energy. Too many Tongans walking, bent over, puffing.

[dkw]

Just now, DavidM said:

Indeed . We’ve been strong defensively . Attack wise though I think we should be more than 10 points ahead with how bad they’ve been

In fairness we've bombed absolute certain tries, which gives us a possible 20 points win.

[Exiled Wiganer]

Our game now. We have played the conditions superbly. Our discipline and defence have been world class.

For a new team, we have performed superbly these last 2 weeks. Harry Smith’s performance was the best by a half back out of the 4 we have seen today. 

[EagleEyePie]

Ashton man of the match? 

[DavidM]

Our rotund guy in the yellow shirt has played long minutes 

[DavidM]

Just now, dkw said:

In fairness we've bombed absolute certain tries, which gives us a possible 20 points win.

Indeed 

[bratman]

1 minute ago, DavidM said:

Indeed . We’ve been strong defensively . Attack wise though I think we should be more than 10 points ahead with how bad they’ve been

Should have been out of sight a while ago really, 2 fluffed chances

[dkw]

Just now, EagleEyePie said:

Ashton man of the match? 

I'm just surprised he gave it to someone actually playing, not Sam Tomkins or George Williams...

[StandOffHalf]

Noble giving Ashton the Homme du Match because he's got two tries coming into the team...

I'd have gone with Harry Smith. I think he's been solid and composed.

[DavidM]

They’ve been really really disappointing 

[UTK]

Would be surprised if England lose the third test, but even still this feels like a fairly evenly placed rivalry with England superior in the style of football played throughout the series. 

If this series was to take place at home for Tonga (NZ) I would be equally unsurprised if the 3-0 result was reversed, home conditions feels like the biggest difference between the two teams.

[Damien]

Harry Smith the man of the match for me for his organisation and steering England around the pitch.

[Dunbar]

You only have to look atbthe type of numbers these Tongan middle forwards knock out week after week in the NRL to see just how well we have managed their go forward.

England have not been great as we haven't needed to be. But we have been good enough.