they lost the game to England, but they outplayed them greatly throughout the match. England got a somewhat lucky goal in the 90th minute to win the match. The cup is fine, a good way to bring in top competition at one top. The rest of the world is getting better and catching up and we were playing a lot of players with little or in some cases, no, international experience. I think you are over-reacting a bit.
You'd be right if we were only talking about this cup
but add the Olympics to it (and the very bizarre substitutions and starting 11 selections there) and you start to have a very compelling case that Jill Ellis kind of sucks.