I'm afraid the World Cup is now Australia's, the effort New Zealand and England put in for that game, that was worthy of a final alone. I worry about the final next week. The amount of effort was extraordinary, and I'm afraid that not much would be left in the tank after that performance.

Posts like this really annoy me. All the other plays you mentioned would have resulted in a completely different restart and every subsequent play would have been different.

Thus we will never know....

Did England use all their interchanges? I understand that Ablett didn't get a run but was surprised he was in the 17 ahead of Mclourum to be honest who could have help tighten up the ruck area in Roby's absence.

Great game but so heart braking don't think I'll ever want to watch it again! Wonder why we didn't go with Widdop from day one he was very direct and had a good game against world class opposition.

Who do we want to win the World Cup now England have been knocked out?

Yeah it was all Sinfield's fault. Idiot

Thought Sam spoke well after the game, he could be the guy. If he wants to take that part on then nobody is going to argue with him off the pitch that's for sure. Is he ready? Don't know.

Perhaps so. They'll be a few should be looking to take greater leadership roles in their clubs next year.

That's actually cheered me up.

Unlikely at 22.0 down already 25 mins in.

That NZ miracle pass bounced forward when it hit the ground doesn't that count as a forward pass?

Problem with either him or Graham is that they're Australia based so its a question of do you want your captain to be someone who is in England for all the training camps, the mid season games and media stuff.

Burrow made a few decent metres again,him and roby where the best options I though like you said, many different factors.

Sinfield should have kicked that conversion but who is to say kiwis wouldn't have scored 2 quick tries after that? handling errors could have gone either way on some occasions SBW was done for a knock on that never was and didnt england score not long after that, any thing changes the tide of the game.

It was a great game worthy of a final just the kiwis had more composure when it mattered, mcnamara made some good choices apart from taking a man and not playing him widdop for chase was a good idea and not playing mcillorum was another both of who would have been wound up and could have cost us more.

Plenty of positives from that game and when the WC comes around again who knows we could be the favourites.

Thought Burrow was ineffective and NZ got a roll on it only changed back when Graham and Roby came back on.// Truck and trail.....
I appreciate you'll disagree as a Leeds supporter but Ablett is not international standard IMO and has not really given any indication otherwise during the world cup but think when you have 17 you should use all those in front of you even if to help stiffen the defensive line in the closing stages.

NZ were making alot of easy yardage especially in the last 20 mins of the game. Proud of the team effort though it would have been nice for those down under to get a surprise and lose their crown. Instead its more of the same old final which was predictable from the start NZ v AUS.