BOOS AT THE BREAK SAY IT ALL

THESE players are picking up more than £10,000 a match but I would be embarrassed to take it if I was one of them.

We haven't improved at all in the last 12 months, if anything we have gone backwards.

Where's the development? Where's the flair? How are we trying to win games?

Argentina had two rookies at the back and two in the pack but England produced one of the most clueless performances I've ever seen at Twickenham.

You hear the interviews with the captain Steve Borthwick and the other players and they just look for excuses.

The weather, the wind - I can assure you, it wasn't that bad. Stop looking for excuses.

The most worrying thing for me standing at pitchside was the constant stream of players coming over and looking for instructions from the coaches.

Yes, you have to have a plan but there is a time and a place when you need generals out on the field. You need them to change things, to up the tempo, everything England talked about all week.

Unfortunately they are not able to do it. The day of the android rugby player needs to come to an end.

If the players have to keep asking coaches on the sidelines what to do there is only one way we're going and that is down.

Argentina are very committed and incredibly proud but looking at that England performance we had no leadership, even from Borthwick.

It's a big indictment of the coaching because there was no evidence of any kind of game-plan out there apart from the aimless kicking. The crowd booing at half-time says it all.

The coaches have been given all the time they need with the players but they are actually getting WORSE.

The coaches are coaching for coaching's sake but it is clear they don't know what they're doing. The players don't know what they are doing, that is evident.

People on high have to make decisions. Where are we going with this group of coaches and with the players playing the way they are.

There hasn't been much to cheer since Martin Johnson took over and I'm sure he's feeling the pressure. Someone needs to say to Martin things need to change. They can start by changing the captain.

Apart from a couple of off-loads for the Banahan try, we were clueless yesterday. But why did we leave it until the 70th minute to try things?

Johnson can be as aggressive as he wants in his interviews but there has to come a point when he and his players hold their hands up and say 'we are not good enough'.

That performance simply was not good enough coming off the back of a miserable performance against Australia.

If England kick as badly as they did yesterday against New Zealand next week it will be a very black day at Twickenham.

I fear a drubbing but if it takes one big hiding to get things sorted out with the coaching, that may be no bad thing.

If England beat New Zealand it will be the most amazing thing I have ever seen in rugby

Interview: SAM PETERS

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