Kearney brought Bennett in again for the Final

He rang him.

Shame to see Brent Tate in tears at half-time. I hope, if it is the end of his test career, that he gets the recognition that he deserves for both club and country. He has been the best centre in the world for the last 8 years in my eyes

He did well to comeback from the bashing he got from the PNG game .

just proves how much it means to the players to see them so emotional like that,even hearing that his family had to console him means so much

He was at Training!

What a pity England didn’t appoint Wayne Bennett when they had the chance.

was buzzing after watching the game,it really had everything.

Great to see the kiwi's win but for me Aussies are still the one to beat.

Apart from the Kiwis keep beating them in the ones that matter!

Marshall and SKD both worthy of their International Player of the Year nominations.

Benji truly is a freak, best player on that field by some margin IMO, was awesome. For the convicts I'd say Smith was their best player, with Thaiday also grafting really hard. Cronk also made some really clever plays, though.

Benji is a joy to watch, he is easily the most skillful play in world rugby.

Kiwi's have won the last two big finals, also thought they played against us better than the Aussies did, for me got to be the no.1 team in the world.

Well it's happened twice now I guess but the Aussies are more consistent and had a fair few players missing in this 4 nations too, I think Benji acknowledged that in his speech.

Aus were missing Thurston, Inglis and Hayne and played a big part of the game with 15 fit men, so I see your point. However, I saw on another thread a good point about how the Aussies played a quite risk averse game - one which I admired when when England were dropping it right, left and centre, in fairness. NwZ made plenty of errors, but had the extra class. The Aus pack (at more or less full strength at kick-off?) in particular looked very safe but distinctly unspectacular.