Exactly, leeigh thats how its gonna be for the next 20 years, our game simply isnt important enough for funding and reasearch that the aussies have

Seems to me if you are talented you are.Government funding, as no doubt we will discover, when this country hosts the Olympics helps, no doubt about it.

Biggest sport on the planet is assosciation football who has the best team in the world though and how much government funding did they have ?

All this Sky money and England can,t beat Ukraine

at footie.

Never say never noone knows how good or bad our National RL side will be in 20 years time.

I think our team ie England isn,t far off. Just takes time.

Well said.
Didn't England Cricket struggle against them Aussies for the Ashes.....Don't follow cricket but it something like the 80's or something since we last won them, and now we have won them twice in recent years.......

It took the unprecedented move of introducing P&R into domestic cricket to finally win an Ashes series, now have they hit on something I wonder.

Austrilia wont have many better than Tomkins a doubted him at 1st but he showed skill and maturity the other day. Austrilia produce good young centres and wingers (Inglis,Foloua) you name me 1 thats better scrum half than tomkins and if the aussie youngsters are that good why have West Tigers bout Flanagan from wigan who wasnt even in the top 5 young players?? Stupid loser attitude is what gets us nowhere

You and your attitude are not wanted in sport!!!

We have a game that we are good at and have a product that only the Aussies can rival unlike any other sport!!!!!!

Lets look at in real terms and attempt to be the best it wont do anyone any harm!!!!

We will beat NZ next week at at the very least run Aus close in the final TS is the best RL coach in RL and will show why next week!!!!!!!!

Well said!!

The Aussies alaways struggled to produce Halves like ours likes of Murphy and Millward always ran the legs off forward orintated sides!!!!!

Lets get back to what we are good at and let these ellusive kids run the convicts ragged!!!!!!!!

TBH i thought their half back was out standing and we don’t have anyone in that grade. We just don’t produce that kind of dominant half back in this country.

Agreed. To say that there aren't many as good as Tomkins is just ignorant. There wasn't an English player on the pitch that outplayed Lockyer or Thurston in the 1st half. Aussie half-backs are streets ahead of ours just through their kicking and passing ability.

If Tomkins achieves just a fraction of what Lockyer has managed in his career, then he'll have done well.

The Aussies are good BUT they are damn well cocky with it and i think in the second half we knocked that cockiness out of them ,plus i was sick of the commentators going on and on about how fantastic they are and that they were showing us a master class in rugby, for goodness sake they dont need anyone else telling them they are good they are very good at telling themselves TUT!

Thought Tomkins was brilliant, would like to see him partnered with Eastmomd at half back. Think the Ausies wiould find it difficult to find a pairing who could cope with those 2.

They coped very well with them , how many times did they get tackled ?

Compare that to how many times we laid a hand on Lockyer and Thurston ?