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Yes, it will be in the history books forever more.

Decent game in front of one of the biggest crowds for a game in Cumbria for who knows how long.

Both teams working some rust out of their system. Scotland profiting from some horrendous errors from the Tongans, who are going to have to improve significantly to have any kind of impact on the tournament.

I find it incredible some folk thought Tonga were on the rough end of decisions, I thought the ref expected them to win and reffed it that way. There were a number of very strange calls but to say Tonga were the only ones to suffer is a nonsense. Scotland won because their team ethic was much better.

Scotland had a pack that was mainly SL/NRL players with only Stringer and Philips from the National Leagues, a run on pack of Henderson, Walker, Douglas, Addy, Ferguson and Wilkes (who all played very well) were more disciplined and structured than the bulkier Tongans. I would have expected Stringer's mobility to be a problem against better opposition, but the Tongans just didn't challenge that aspect of his play.

Other than Russell, Scotland had nothing much outside the halves, but neither did Tonga, or at least they didn't show it. The Tongan nr 3 was supposed to be some kind of star, he was just a fat lad playing centre.

Ultimately a team with probably less talent won because they were a team. I thought they deserved it.

Thought Anthony Tupou went well for Tonga on the wing, but they just didn't get him enough ball.

He's certainly big, quick and elusive enough to do some damage if they can use him properly.

which number 3? Booth centres actually wore number 3 during the game (Noble kept getting Hurrell and Taufua mixed up).
However, I wouldn't describe either of them as "just a fat lad playing centre" - they both played quite well if you actually watched the game.

The weak link in the backline was the full-back Fisi'ahi (sp) who make a lot of mistakes and Feki. Daniel Tupou clearly wasn't used enough, especially on attacking kicks near the Scotland line, where he is pretty unstoppable.