Morley aiming to silence critics

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England have limped into Saturday's first semi-final against New Zealand on the back of three below-par performances in the group stages, which have brought widespread condemnation.

"We've not done ourselves any favours by our performances - but a great performance on Saturday would shut all the knockers up," said Morley. "They will forget how we've been playing and see that we're in a World Cup final against either Australia or Fiji."

England have adopted something of a siege mentality since their 52-4 humiliation by Australia 11 days ago, and coach Tony Smith is still giving precious little away about his team for Saturday's game at Suncorp Stadium.

However, Morley insists that the players' confidence has not been dented by either their disappointing displays or the subsequent criticism.

"The mood is quite positive really," he added. "I know we've had three poor performances really. Even in the victory over PNG we weren't playing up to our best.

"But we're surprisingly upbeat. We realise where we've gone wrong and we realise we've not been playing to our potential, but we've still got confidence in one another and confidence in the coach.

"And the beauty of it is that, even though we've not been playing well, we're still in this competition. It's up to us to nail a performance."