honestly if the USA had a half decent winger against brett morris this scored would halved.

Favourites for tournament beat minnows in the way you'd expect them to. Why is that bad for the credibility of the tournament?

Excellent try though.

Terrible display from the Yanks. They simply haven't turned up and should stick to baseball etc

What a pass from Parker to Hayne!!!

I assume Perenara will be refereeing Australia in the semi final too.

No doubt if England get through, it will be either Hayne or Klein.

I think the only credibility harmed really is that of the USA team. Ireland put in a better showing against the Aussies and like the USA they are mainly part timers. I was disappointed in the USA team's efforts to be honest. But hey-ho, not ever match can be a great one.

If the USA team had included more real Americans from the domestic competition, players like Apple Pope, Taylor Alley, Bart Longchamp and Brendon Beedle, then the USA would have posted a few tries and stopped a few, giving the game a more competitive edge.

However it is irrelevant in the general scheme of things, because the USA team's games were not telecast in the USA, and so 300 million Americans have had no idea that the USA rugby league team was even playing in the RLWC. Congratulations to IMG for a royal screw up of its opportunities and responsibilities as media rights holder, and congratulations to Nigel Wood for allowing IMG to get the rights and not get the plum contracts for our game

Hey up! Mystic Meg is back!

The group games have been excellent but the fact is we were always going to get 3 one sided QFs and 1 one sided semi regardless of who got through the groups England Australia and New Zealand are just to far ahead

Exactly. And a huge well done to whoever came up with the structure for the group stages as it created many close games and great publicity when we could have seen more blow out scores with a different format

Should let rugby union players be used to boost standards imo