Give over!

We played as well yesterday as we did the week before, but this time the bounce of the ball and a couple of 50-50 calls went for us instead of against us. We look as good as the Aussies based on the last 2 games we have both played - and we have a real chance of beating them next week if we perform again.

Our pack was immense and very professional, they bullied them from the start and never let benji get a look in, and when they started to try and goad us we didn't rise to it as we had them beat where it counted.

Anybody would think you wanted us to fail, weren't you one of the posters who seemed to take some sort of pleasure in what some thought was a poor crowd last week and also that we got beat? Shame you can't go on a McNamara rant, or a RFL rant, or a expansion is crap rant cos the best team one last night and we seem to be making strides at international level, still - suppose you can trot out the old range chase rant.....

You're English (I presume) and a rugby league fan, and the English Rugby league team has just well beaten the world chaps, ergo you should be proud as punch like the majority of us are........

Agree the Kiwis looked a well beaten side last night and before we get carried away these are the first choice Kiwis that missed out on the tour through injury!
Josh Hoffman (Brisbane), Lance Hohaia (Vodafone Warriors), Sam Rapira (Vodafone Warriors), Matt Duffie (Melbourne), Sam Perrett (Sydney Roosters), Shaun Kenny-Dowall (Sydney Roosters), Frank-Paul Nuuausala (Sydney Roosters), Greg Eastwood (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs) and Bronson Harrison (Canberra) plus Vatuvei, Matai and Johnson. Frank Pritchard unavailable and Inu also withdrew.

Whichever way you want to look at things, we had a magnificent win against the reigning world champions and 4 nations champions.
England deserve all the credit for THE best performance from an England team for many, many years.
Once again the ref bottled it and Tompkins should have had a much better level of protection from the guy in charge.
Well done boys

I agree we did play as well as the week before, but we were up against far weaker opposition than the week before, that's why we won.
NZ have been comfortably beaten by Aus twice in a few weeks and neither of those victories were particularly down to the Aussies being spectacular, in order to beat the World Champs.
IMO the Aussies have won all their games at a canter, we look ok (and better than I feared!) and the kiwis have hone backwards, IMO they aren't playing as a team or with a team plan, they offer little in attack and their defense is poor.
The point I was making was that if the Aussies get up for the final, we could get a whacking, nothing particularly controversial in that I don't think.
As for attendances, 42,000(?) is woeful for an international, I'm not sure how many were at the KC, but the media were hyping up a 20,000 attendance as something especially amazing, I don't think it is.

Or maybe we never let them get out of a canter. I thought we dominated the Aussies for a lot of the game and knocked them off their stride. The difference was how clinical they were once they got within twenty metres of the tryline, and how we weren't.

I know it could be another false dawn, but I have seen two very impressive performances from a side and coach that I didn't expect anything from.

We will see I suppose next weekend!
Anyone going?

Just got my tickets..

Went to Wembley & KC suppose I have to go to Elland Road.. not many tickets left in either North / South stand... Just got into N12

How much are tickets?

We will get a drubbing next week and just like every other year, yesterday created false hope.

Worst performance from NZ i have ever seen, is it down to GB playing them into a corner, well like you say we'll see on Sat.

20 point + win to Aus.

https://www.eticketing.co.uk/rle/detail ... emref=8477 £20 - £50 Adults £10 - £25 Kids

https://www.eticketing.co.uk/rle/detail ... emref=8477 £20 - £50 Adults £10 - £25 Kids

Ooh Mr Negative!!!

yep going from Stanley rangers as a group

£16 for coach and ticket was a no brainer for who ever was playing

There's 6 of us going, booked a few weeks ago before finalists were known.