Flogged 30-12, dominated in the forwards, and Sheens' answer is to drop.....a winger. Tupou (who IMO should have been moved to FB when Inglis went off) is out and in comes Mata'utia who has hardly set the world on fire in his 7 NRL games. If he was going to drop Tupou then surely Alex Johnson should have got the nod. He has big match experience (Grand Final win) and as we all saw this year the kid can score tries.
The Kangaroos pack was woeful last Saturday. Woods is no Matt Scott (which makes the decision to pick him as the only specialist prop all the more baffling). Hoffman was next to useless and as stated previously, it was his laziness in defence that saw Lewis Brown score, not the missed tackle by DCE. Thaiday....how he continues to be selected is beyond me. He's barely passable as a second rower, hopeless as a prop. And why pick Farah, a specialist hooker who isn't a back rower OR a half, when Smith is an 80 minute player?
In fact, the only Kangaroos that I would have given a passing grade to last Saturday would have been Mansour (just), Jennings, Cronk and Scam Smith (I'm not counting Inglis or DCE as they were sick and got injured). On the whole, discounting Inglis and DCE, I thought our backs were ok. But as Manly showed this season, its hard for the backs and halves to do anything useful when the forwards are going backwards.
Sheens seems to have gone senile since last years World Cup.