Remember when England rugby union side won the world cup. All we heard was this will grow the game and do wonders for rugby union with scenes never seen before.

I think you are bright enough to see all pipe dreams that never came to fruition.

The idea that England losing today will see Rugby League never recover is laughable.

The RFL and clubs need to do more than hope for England winning to attract more kids.

They are just choosing not to bother.

Ask the RFU and while you are at then Australian Rugby. Ask them what impact a world cup win did for the sport and where was the huge growth of the game they were dreaming about.

A world cup win is not some magical dust which will see Rugby League achieve huge growth. The game needs way more actions and plans to be put in place for real growth.

Its not that simple is it ? People arent just running 10000metres because mo farah won gold at the olympics or taking up curling.

Its a pipedream and quite frankly Rugby League attitude all over that winning a world cup would change the sport.

We were $h!t today, End of.

Just got back, another great game to watch.

Obviously gutted about the result but the Emirates is a great venue and it was great to hear lots of Southern accents in the ground and lots of (and I don't mean this as an insult) Union types there. All the Southerners around me were gripped by the game and commented how exciting it had been.

Once we have done the post mortem we should be paying Samoa to fly over next year and market it as a 'revenge' game.

Sigh.... £85 a ticket to sit in a seat with a poor view with an annoying prick sat behind me and watch England throw it away again and again and again.

Wane has to go, if he can't get his best performance in the final game he isn't the right coach for an international side, Samoa got better as the tournament went on, as England did in the last 2 tournaments, and he has to be accountable. All the weaknesses in the team were apparent before today, and yet they were not addressed, he decided his squad and then his best team before the tournament, and they played no matter what their weaknesses, and they were exploited today. We are carrying too many players, and those that have failed before, failed again.

Less disappointed than the last 2 tournaments as I never thought we had a real chance, but after the ticket sales didn't come through we desperately needed the TV viewers to see England in the final and see them give it a good go. We need England to be good enough to make the big teams have to come over here and play the ashes, the four nations, or whatever the big tournaments will be year in and year out, because the international game is the product we can sell, and it can inspire people into the game.

The domestic game is on the slide, the clubs are fighting to cut each other out of increasingly small returns, and the quality and number of players keeps going down, our best development route seems to be NRL exports and expats coming back and improving the gaps in our squad. Winning a world cup won't solve the problems, but its harder to solve them when we fail so spectacularly.

I was at the Australia v New Zealand game last night and it was a lot higher level than that today….think the final has already been played…

We will never win a World Cup until the full English squad are all playing for NRL teams. As has been said Aus v NZ should have been kept apart for the final. I expect Aus to win by 18-20 points in the final. They are a different level for the full 80 minutes.

I've really enjoyed the World Cup and International games are the only way to grow the sport. If feasible I think it would be good to have another tournament every 2 years after the World Cup with the WC quarter finalists forming a comp of 2 groups of 4 with top 2 going to SF and then final. Same comp for bottom 8 teams in WC. Both finals played in double-header. Imagine 2 groups - group 1 Aus, Tonga, Samoa, Lebanon group 2 NZ, Eng, Fiji, PNG. Some mouth watering clashes there.

I would take this england team over Bennett and his total borefest England side any day of the week.

Bennett was doing his best to turn fans away. No excitement at all.

By the next WC we'll probably be able to find 12 sides that play at a professional level.
I'd say we have about 8 now, with 4 more that are improving.

I'd be happy to see us go back to a 12 team main draw and a 12 team emerging nations draw, to give teams like Serbia, USA, Canada, Malta, Soloman Islands etc a chance to play.

The next world cup is only 3 years away and we will probably need around 10 new players of international standard, the likes Burgess, Hill, Cooper, Whitehead, McLLorum. Makinson, Watkins, Tomkins, Walmsley and Percival will probably be all internationally retired. I also think Wane won't go around again knowing some of his decisions didn't work for him.