Unbelievable stuff wasn't it!

I know everyone was getting that sinking feeling but christ there was still a game on with everything to play for.

You'd have thought we were 30 points down.

Because it is far too big a stadium now. If we got a crowd of 40,000, which would be our largest international attendance for years, it would only be just over half full.

Is a very compact stadium really.

The biggest problem I had with it tbh was that as a 'football' ground rather than a 'sports' ground the stewarding was a little heavy handed (i mean there were more stewards stood round the aussie fans at the end than there were fans. what were they gonna do?) as they treat you the same as they do football fans which the majority are clearly not.

It is a pity the RFL doesnt have the money to build a 50,000 stadium in Leeds for its major matches. It could then rent it to Leeds United, who are desperate for a new ground, and it would be a great revenue earner in the long run.

Very cramped stadium, but then i've been before so knew what to expect. Aside from the Mexican Wave idiots another group who got on my nerves are the people who chose to take their seat 5 mins after kick off, leave 5 mins before half time and then come back to their seats 10 mins into the second period, disrupting the pople on their row and the people behind who temporarly unable to see.

Thers a nice stadium in London doing sweet FA after September 2012

Mind you theres one in Brent thats not that well used either

What about the Reebok stadium

Elland Road is a dump. Apart from the East Stand it wants pulling down and is the worst venue of the four Englang matches this year. I watched GB play at the City of Manchester stadium a few years ago and that would be my first choice.

Not quite big enough imo.

If Hull City get their way (unlikely now due to their financial position) and the KC gets extended to 40,000 then that would be a good choice. Only problem is that it's not very central.

Elland Road is a dump. It looks dark and shabby and part its sell-by date on TV, the seats are the smallest I've ever experienced at a ground, as my gf kept reminding me there aren't enough loos for the girls, and there's not a lot in the immediate area. The only thing in its favour was the number of food & drink outlets and they were well staffed.

And it's always proved terrible for British RL in general. Several Ashes series, the 2004 Tri-Nations, the 2009 Four-Nations, rubbish.

Eastlands for me. Great stadium, just outside the city centre (walkable), good facilities, great atmosphere.

Please, never play international RL at Elland Road again. It's e. I'd sooner we had a full Reebok, Galpharm, DW Stadium (ok, it has a low capacity), or even an Eastlands with a few empty rows.

Other than the limited legroom, its a fine stadium - the views from east and west are superb and the atmosphere that can be generated in the North stand is outstanding. Plus its in heartland of RL territory - a good choice to hold these sorts of competitions.

I'd have preferred them to hold it at a smaller stadium than at Elland Road. The seating is terrible there with little leg room which is why I didn't attend yesterday. I'd have gone if the game had been at Hull, Huddersfield or Eastlands but not Elland Road. It was a state of the art stadium at one point, unfortunately that point was forty years ago. Simply not good enough for top class sport.

It's not the best ground, and the pillars do get in the way a bit if you are behind them. Other than that, I didn't find it too bad - I'm over 6 foot and didn't have any trouble with leg-room?

I was in the South-East stand, and the Mexican wave thing was being started by a group of school kids. To be honest they were only enjoying themselves, which is what it's all about? Not to everyone's taste, but each to his own?

...lucky you weren't 6 rows directly in front of the drummer, like I was...

Elland Road is dated. The only modern stand is the East Stand.

As for the mexican waves, as stated by other posters it is a sad day in our games history when we see numpties doing this. You expect this is a boring England football friendly but not in our game.

I think different parts of the ground have different ammounts of legroom.

As i posted earlier i was in the back row of the east stand and had no leg room at all & stood through all the match.

However as most of the east stand emptied prior to the trophy presentation
i wondered down the stand close to where the australian supporters were,
sat down & hey,presto...just had enough leg room