Losing Sam Burgess cost us, as did some very dubious decisions from the referee.

Thought England played well in the 2nd half, after Australia dominated the 1st by miles. We're just not clinical enough when we get the opportunities. McGilvery & Hall excellent. Roby changed how we played in the 2nd half, also thought Bateman was fine but needs to be in the pack. Our pivots didn't really do anything. Lomax was poor.
Disappointing but not unexpected start, offers some hope going forward.
Can't help but feel though if he actually picked form players (i.e Shaul), we could have won. As Australia were average by there standards.

He was terrible.

"I'll just penalise nothing all game, then randomly pick 2 crucial moments to penalise england, for nothing".

Making no decisions for most of the game isn't good refereeing.

There could be 90k there and there'd still be no atmosphere from the Australian "fans".

Englanf attack wa pretty clueless within their 20m, rather than pressing and forcing the drop out then chipping away again, we keep trying to force a try, usually ending with just turning over possession.

Not over 80 minutes. We were battered in the first half and the Aussies should have been out of sight at half-time.

Lomax shouldn't play. Defensively awful. Widdop was very good and Gale was okay but his kicking wasn't good. Having said that, if you're kicking on the back foot you're always going to struggle.

What other full back options are there? Widdop is too good to leave at the back.

Ok sounds good. Maybe we will in exchange teach you how to lose your virginity.

Australians should be embarrassed by that refereeing performance.
No complaints with the result. Better team won but when you’re playing the best team in the world and the ref, you’ve no ing chance.

agree with Shaul but at the risk of going over old ground i can't help thinking Sneyd would have been a good partner for widdop - leave him to do most of the the kicking and let widdop use his running game more. hope they will at lease look at this potential partnership in the next couple of years

This kind of statement is only the second most prevalent behind "our forwards are lots harder than yours" or some such crap, both these sentiments get trotted out every time we play, boring as e

If you think that the atmosphere is terrible, blame yourselves for not being able to produce any competition, i'm in my late 40s & i have no idea what its like to be beaten by England in any substantial capacity, you've made it boring, your team fails to inspire, you won't find too much better atmosphere in RL than state of origin, thats because the english can't play it, thank god

Oh look, another one

errrrrrr i don't think this is the time or place for you to proposition me old chap, i'm not that kind of boy, have you got a sister???

Well looky what we have here

I agree. There were things he didn't give that could easily have gone in Australia's favour. I don't think we can have any complaints. It's just unfortunate that the O'Loughlin one led to a try.

I thought we were superb in the 2nd half and the scoreline flatters Australia a bit. Overall it's hard to be too disappointed though. In the past we've been steamrollered by them many times. I feared at half time that might have happened but it didn't. If only we could have scored when it was 10-4. That would really have made things interesting.

Great effort by all the England players. No shame in losing when you've given everything like they did today.

Boring in the first half. BORING!

Some players didn’t turn up defensively when the rest of the team were tackling their hearts out.

Kicking game was so poor!

The ref was appalling!

Second half much better. But still lacked a killer instinct and purpose on play6.

Ref still appalling!

A bit embarrassing for our sport to see a small stadium with empty seats in a World Cup game between the two favourites that was about 1/5 England fans.