The difference in quality makes makes it hard to know what you can take from the game.

I don't think anyone nailed down a claim to the left centre position. Bateman passed to Hall for a couple of tries and made a few good carries, will be solid but not ideal. Percival played on the wing in the second half but didn't do much.

Widdop and Gale both had good touches. Roby looked a lot better than Hodgson to me. Burgess and Hill stood out in the first half. Walmsley and Tom Burgess did damage in the second half, Tom did have at least one knock on.

Ratchford made a couple of errors at fullback, Lomax didn't even play, Widdop had a quarter there and looked alright. Fullback and centre are the big questions but any solution seems underwhelming.

Overall they had good line speed, strong defence. Completed well, showed some good hands for some of the tries. Kicked pretty well when they had to. The tries they conceded were interceptions, at least we didn't concede from defensive mistakes but we can't afford to let Australia and New Zealand score off our mistakes with the ball. One was similar to a try Shaun Johnson scored last year.

For what it was, I think they did well. They lost to Italy in the warm up for the last World Cup.

Looking forward to next Friday now.

Did this count as a capped match? Just wondering as Hall is only 12 tries off the all time RL test record (10 now if the match was capped)

No.

21 tries against tier two nations though, 10 from 15 appearances is still a good haul though. comparing try scoring records in proper 'tests' from BITD to modern day internationals isn't possible. Sure you play what's in front of you but scoring against Australia or a French team that was beating/superior to Australia is not the same as scoring against a mickey poor French side that would struggle in SL or other tier two teams.
I hope Hall gets a hatfull in any case.

6 tries in 7 games vs Aus shows he is far more than a flat track bully (his record vs NZ has been tarnished by playing them 3 times with Bateman as his centre)

If he gets the record he deserves it but I think he would have to stay in the England team for the next 2 years after this to do it

Ryan Hall is the perfect example of why the people who cry foul that teams aren't picked solely 'on form' are wrong. He's scored 10 try's in superleague this year I believe yet he'd be the first name on my list for an England spot. He's never been hugely prolific at superleague level in comparison to some players who've smashed it over a short period of time (in regards to try scoring) but he's the ultimate big game player.

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