The penalty he did give away, the ref told him hands away, he raised his hands and took them away immediately, ref then decided 2 seconds later that it was still in fact a penalty.

And perhaps it’s important to point out that Wood came on and gave 2 penalties (one extremely brainless) in just 13 minutes on the pitch.

At fly half we’ve seen the likes of Hodgson, Farrell, Burns, Cipriani, Myler and now Ford. On the wings we’ve seen Ashton, Nowell, May, Brown, Goode, Yarde, Roko, Watson and even Tuilagi. Scrum half we’ve flipped between Care, Youngs and Dickson and in the centres of course we’ve seen Barritt, Tuilagi (who, fair enough had it not been for injury would start every game), Farrell, Tomkins, Twelvetrees, Eastmond, JJ etc etc etc.

If you look at any half decent side you have your nailed on starters in certain positions; Wales: North, Cuthbert, Roberts and Davies. Where are Wales struggling? Half back. Why? Because the personnel keep changing…the one exception to this rule being New Zealand I suppose who seem to have a conveyer belt of talent in every position.

I’d like to just see us maintain some level of consistency and allow the team to gel, as others have, rather than having knee jerk reactions all the time.

I really liked Fords high ball for Brown which is better instead of watching brown having to kick himself and catch it, but really feel it will be tested against Folau.

Haskell really did not play well which i found disappointing, but Woods pretty much got himself a couple of penalty himself, feel that Woods place is guaranteed now.

I feel a bit for Barrett (he’s a world quality back on his day), but you do get the feeling he’s just being stuck in to make up the numbers as we await the return of the Auckland Harbour Swimmer.

Of course none of this answers any questions about the 12 shirt…! I still rate 36 there. He was a pretty good impact sub on Sat and has the experience. 10 – give Ford another start against the Aussies, and cement the starting XV before the 6 Nations (when hopefully we’ll have a raft of players back from injury!)

No difference from previous games in the back row. No 8 makes vast majority of the metres for whole pack. Vunipola did look tired in the first 2 tests, but perhaps the issue doesn’t lie with the guy in the 8 shirt but those around him?

Speaks volumes that a score of 6.5 for Youngs is enough to warrant a starting place in next weeks team. Should be a real cause for concern given how important a position scrum half is.

Ford simply must start against Australia, they are probably the least physical of the teams Eng will face this autumn, I’ve seen enough of Ford playing without Farrell to know that he can do it without him, so I would go for Eastmond at 12, a club partnership and a genuine attacking threat.

I would imagine Barritt hasn’t let anyone down, I wasn’t expecting him to offer anything in attack and he has duly obliged. If someone else is picked in his place, they MUST perform well in defence, as it would be all too easy to revert back to Barritt if Eng come unstuck.

Back 3 looking good, will really be tested by Aus, but I think they will be wary of our pace on the wings.

A few points come to mind…firstly, would Ford have made those decisions/spotted that space had Farrell not been there? Secondly, though Farrell’s performance was less than perfect, it is generally agreed that he is just off form and begs the question should England now try and maintain consistency and work on Farrell.

Now there’s two ways of looking at that…Chris Ashton was off form for a long time, Lancaster stuck with him as he trusted he would find form, which we all know he didn’t. I also remember, however, the Wales’ Alex Cuthbert was out of form for a while, with people calling for him to be axed. Gatland stuck with him and he is now performing.

For me consistency is key and I feel panic is starting to set in with the England back room staff hence all the changes in midfield.

Perhaps it is now time to shift focus to the next World Cup, get centres in place now with a view to developing them for then.