Agreed, apart from the knock-on early in the second half, he had a massive game.

Our sofa of pundits was equally biased.

Wire and Rhinos fans (pro-Kiwi) and Geoff who's a Kiwi. Would have had a couple of Aussies but they were no shows.

Great result for the sport.

Pre-match bacon sarnies

Halftime discussion about Joel Monaghan

It had it all...........loads better than Stevo, Eddie and crew

To be completely honest, when Fein's try was given, the weight of anxiety for most of the second half up to that point was lifted from my shoulders and I weirdly felt better. I expected to be filthy. Getting used to it maybe (Raiders, NSW, not so distant Kiwi wins from the past).

Great game. Brilliant stuff. Don't have my thesaurus with me but it was outstanding, tough, excellent etc etc.

Such a shame so many people regularly devalue international league. Won't harp on about all that stuff though.

Well done Kiwis. Well done Benji for the usual magic. Well dome Eastwood for making tackle after tackle near the end.

Sympathies for Lewis who had a good tournament and especailly for Tate, so unlucky.

Are you involved with channel Nine?
If not I do not trust your opinion at all.
NZ won and well done to them, scrappy game by both sides with a high intensity.
A couple of bad decisions for both teams Oz with a try that had a player in touch.
Kiwis with 2 trys from forward passes.
Its all good.
Having a team other than Oz win it is probably good for the game.


The sniping by English fans probably does not help the game. It comes across as we can not compete but we will crap on everything we aspire to, back the other team, knock the Ref, Knock the crowds ETC ETC.

Rooster I do not know who you work for but going by your comments I hope it is not higher than under 7's

If Australia sticks in your throat man up and go home.


Nothing worse than people that take advantage of opportunities in Australia and then Crap on the Country, people or teams in the place where they live.

Go home if the Culture offends you.

origin is the benchmark

for international RL to provide games of similar quality means its improving.

if england could match it we wouldnt even be worrying with origin so much but at least weve got nz

he can be an insecure git when he wants to be.

The ARL did well to find a church that could seat 40,000 people.

The atmosphere at league games in Australia is dreadful.

What a game and what a finish. Rugby League is the greatest sport in the world. End of!

Billy Slater is a great player but he choked big time.

NZ really are the best team in the world and I find it a real shame that the 2013 WC can't be in NZ, it would be huge on the back of all this success.

good call.