I just assume that they have their reasons. There's clearly nothing sinister about it in terms of the playing side of things because they easily beat everyone anyway. I think RL has more important things to worry about than that.

Was hoping for a much closer game, but a 38 point gap with 30 mins still to go is only looking like it will get wider!

Their the hosts - that is exactly what happened when we hosted the WC - what did you expect to happen. If NZ had won their games they would not have had all their games apart from the final in NZ?

England should have played PNG in PNG IMO.

I'm done with it now, didn't think Fiji would win or anything but I thought they might have had a bit of a go. Roll on Tonga!

Well this is turning out as expected.

I know it is a bit of a feat to score 5 tries, but my nan could have scored these!

It's as one sided as when Rovers got drubbed at Wembley the other year.
Mind you, at least Fiji have managed some token points on the board.

Convincing!

Disappointing but not unexpected. Fiji tried hard but the Aussies are a different class.

Does underline just how badly the Kiwis underperformed last week.

Amazed Kidwell is still in a job.

Bulls here he comes.

A lot of talk at the moment of the big three becoming a big 5 or something, think it is more like becoming a big 1 with australia and best of the rest if the new zealanders have an off day. I dont think anyone is beating the aussies for a long time now.

As we Castleford supporters know, form can completely go out of the window in an one-off game.
Australia might look far and away the best team in the games before the final, but if they have an off-day anything can happen.
I’d say it would be the biggest shock since Sheffield won the Challenge Cup, but I’d never write any team off in a winner-takes-all game.

Who replaces Cronk, Slater and Smith for Australia - that has to be the worry for them, when they retire from rep footy