I suppose you're right. Would have liked us to have gone in against opposition who would at least challenge us a bit though (e.g Australia reserves, or one of the NRL sides minus their internationals). I'm sure you will agree that the players who stand out in 50+ point thrashings aren't necessarily the players who stand out when you are up against it.

Pointless game in my opinion, there is no challenge.

May aswel just had a training session.

6-56 60mins

My stream is awful. Unwatchable.

Same here.

12-72 full time

Watched it on the Our League app.

Had no problems with viewing.

Completely disagree. Playing 80 minutes in Aus summer evening conditionsm on its own is worth it. CAS not top quality but England got chance to try some combinations and did some good things. I've seen England struggle against 2nd class sides plenty of times, at least this match we tried and succeeded with some good moves.

Was a bit erratic but I streamed and Chromecasted to main TV and was 80% OK. Worth watching.

who stood out, who didn't. what was the overall verdict?

We’ve got weakness at Full Back
Bateman isn’t a centre
I’m still unconvinced by Luke Gale when playing outside of Castleford
Hodgeson always jumps out to challenge the first marker before passing which delays the pass to the Half Backs putting them under pressure, it’s OK when there’s a move on but not every time
I’ve no idea why Heighington in the squad over a number of better more deserving players
We lack pace all over the field

The difference in quality makes makes it hard to know what you can take from the game.

I don't think anyone nailed down a claim to the left centre position. Bateman passed to Hall for a couple of tries and made a few good carries, will be solid but not ideal. Percival played on the wing in the second half but didn't do much.

Widdop and Gale both had good touches. Roby looked a lot better than Hodgson to me. Burgess and Hill stood out in the first half. Walmsley and Tom Burgess did damage in the second half, Tom did have at least one knock on.

Ratchford made a couple of errors at fullback, Lomax didn't even play, Widdop had a quarter there and looked alright. Fullback and centre are the big questions but any solution seems underwhelming.

Overall they had good line speed, strong defence. Completed well, showed some good hands for some of the tries. Kicked pretty well when they had to. The tries they conceded were interceptions, at least we didn't concede from defensive mistakes but we can't afford to let Australia and New Zealand score off our mistakes with the ball. One was similar to a try Shaun Johnson scored last year.

For what it was, I think they did well. They lost to Italy in the warm up for the last World Cup.

Looking forward to next Friday now.