Exceptionally Poor

Stevo and Phil Clarke started the inquests after watching England crash out of the Rugby League World Cup at the semi-final stage.
A 32-22 defeat to New Zealand in Brisbane on Saturday signalled the end of a disappointing campaign for Tony Smith's side, who continued their poor form with a string of handling errors -17 in total.
England gifted the Kiwis three of their six tries and Sky Sports expert Clarke was at a loss to explain why experienced Super League players were making so many errors
He said: 'What's so strange for me is that when you think of Tony Smith's coaching last year with Great Britain they were fantastic.
'They played against France this year and they looked like a team - every player playing better than they did week-in week-out.
'That hasn't been the case out here. If anything we've seen 50 per cent of the skill and ability of players.
'I know that they're playing against better opposition but I still don't think that they've performed and it's so strange because they've gone from being so good to so bad in such a short space of time.'
Poor
Stevo delivered a damning verdict on England's campaign, saying performances were littered with far too many mistakes.
'The performance in the entire World Cup has been exceptionally poor apart from a few exceptions,' he said.
'It's mainly due to the fact that we've played Papua New Guinea in the first game and we were very poor then. Super League standard should be sufficient to get over the top of a country like Papua New Guinea.
'We got walloped by the Australians and we had the game won last week when everybody said it didn't really count.
'But the strategy to me was all wrong. When you come up with so many errors, that has been our problem tonight. Forget about the fact that our defence was a lot more solid, it was.
'But we didn't see the ball swing out wide to the wingers on the New Zealand side as we had done last week. The skill factor on both sides was completely different, they new how to control the game, I thought Nathan Fien was outstanding yet again - his kicking game was far superior to what we produced on the night.
'Again the forwards worked very, very hard. Martin Gleeson was outstanding, he put his body on the line time and time again - not only with ball in hand in attack, but also there was defensive effort as well.
'But you can not eliminate the most glaring thing about this game tonight - 17 errors. That's 17 mistakes and of those 17 I think 15 were probably unforced. You can never expect to win a game, never mind try to get to a World Cup final with a stat like that.'
Raise
Clarke called for an inquiry on England's return home and said something must be done to raise our skill levels so that we can match the other major rugby league powers.
'I think there are about 20 reasons why New Zealand and Australia are currently better than England,' he continued.
'Primarily the competition they play in week-in week out is more intense and that probably helps.
'Some of our players weren't quite good enough, there was a fatigue aspect. We once defended 18 tackles on our own line and on the 18th tackle they scored through a kick out wide.
'That's an amazing effort from England defensively but I think in addition to the errors, we saw a massive difference in the passing accuracy and the skill level between Australia and New Zealand compared to England.
'That ultimately was the most glaring difference between the sides. I think we really have to look at skill acquisition when we get back home to England and really see what needs to be done and what can be done to improve at that level.
'I'm not saying go back to the drawing board but we need to have a really accurate look at the state of our game and try and improve it in certain aspects.
'I think physically we are able to match them, mentally we are probably similar, tactically I don't think there's much of a difference - I wouldn't blame the coach.
'It's technically where there's a difference. Their kicking is far more accurate, dangerous and jfk space center deadly. It's the core skills at which they're better.'
Mentality
Stevo said England approached the tournament with the wrong mentality due to the format whereby the three key nations were virtually assured of a last-four place if they beat Papua New Guinea.
He said we didn't start the competition with enough intensity - and ultimately paid the price.
He said: 'I think we were lulled into this competition by the fact we were virtually handed a semi-final berth.
'They knew all three of us - Australia, New Zealand and buy space heater England were supposed to beat Papua New Guinea so maybe psychologically we thought these games before really didn't matter.
'I would have liked England to have played Australia in the very first game so that the lads could say: 'This is going to be tough.'
'We didn't have to wait until the second game. We nearly got caught with our pants down against Papua New Guinea and damp crawl space we could have actually been nowhere near a semi-final berth.
'I think psychologically - we've had it from the coach himself - that we were building slowly, slowly but surely.
'We were in the semi-final, we still had that second chance. Well we don't have that any more.
'We can't rely on thinking that it's going to be easywe'll build for it. You've got to start how you mean to finish.'