Shame about the attendance.

England, apart from two errors that were punished, defended well.
Good to get the first win under the belt.

Well, you can tell who coaches this NZ side. Constant messing about at the ruck and dubious tackle techniques. With the Connor try the first tackler went round his neck, we then had the knees to the head and then a third tackler comes in with a stiff arm. For me that was a penalty try and 3 kiwis in the bin.

That game reminded me so much of the GF, stop start, way too many stoppages for the penalised team to get their breath back, can we have a proper ref next week please.

Ideally one that thinks knees to the head is worthy of a yellow card.

England would have won with Tom johnstone in the team

Judging by the noise on tv the fans were getting ready for that authentic anfield atmosphere

The rules are either a yellow card or penalty try but who knows why the rules were made that you cant have both? This instance appeared more accidental than the Tomkins tackle on Clark in the GF in both neither got a yellow.It's one for the officials to look at.

England did win.

A massive sarcasm missed.

It was a decent game I enjoyed it, I'm looking forward to Anfield next week I have a ticket for that.

England impressed me and as has been said, they still have improvement in them. The intensity seemed to ebb out of the game towards the end, for all the field position and ball NZ had they didn't seem to go wide quite enough. It was good from England though.

Good win, a proper test match. Tough, tight, brutal and tries only coming from excellent pieces of play (NZ's try from the scrum apart)

Yes, we were sloppy at times, but we kept in the arm wrestle. Maybe we are starting to learn how to win test matches under Bennett

I thought it was a good test match, would have gone up a level if there was an atmosphere.

Overall most players played well, I thought Lomax was very quiet and Hodgeson was poor overall, he needs to stick to being a joker rather than trying to do the halves job too.

Looking at NZ I felt if they had been a little more adventurous they would have won, how much of that was their tactics and how much our defence stopping them I’m not sure.

Good start to the series & I expect both teams will improve for next week.

Although England theoretically had a warm up game against France, that was a very different England side against poor opposition.
I believe that England will improve from today's performance but, the Kiwi's perhaps wont improve as much.

Great try by Gildart to win the game but, the crowd was awful both in number and atmosphere.
It was like a library at the Kcom for most of the game.

We really need to address the marketing and more importantly, the advertising for these games.
The RFL need to involve ALL of the SL and Championship clubs to both help promote the games and sell tickets.

5000 for the France game was poor but, taking account of the opposition, 17000 for today was possibly worse.

Nobody is going to take our sport seriously and the further we drop down the pecking order, the less coverage we will receive etc, etc.

Well done England though, they did well to come out on top today. An excellent win

Nobody can honestly say there wouldn't of been more fans if the game was in London.