Enjoyed the game, first time in south stand and thought it's just a little bit tighter than east which improves the atmosphere but I was sat amongst cas fans who are always a laugh. Felt a long time since I last left the KC a happy home supporter

Pearson said last Tuesday on sports talk he's hoping to use the lights system for FC matches cos he said their are brilliant and from what I saw be the England v New Zealand match I have to agree with Adam

Congratulations to all in Hull. Great turn out. You've done the game a great service. Lovely to see all seats full. You can't buy what that does for our game ... live on BBC as well.

I take it back what I thought about Tom Burgess after seeing him play yesterday! Absolute monster

Same. I was critical of him, but he's certainly stepped his game up a few notches. Scary to think we've got George Burgess & Walmsley that could come into that front row too.

And Sam Burgess.......

England certainly are well stocked with very good front rowers.

Graham
Hill
G Burgess
T Burgess
Walmsley
Cooper
Taylor
Watts
Amor

Probably forgot a couple too!

Definitely a strong area for England. As for the back three, Farrell, Whitehead and O'Loughlin. As good as they are at club level especially the two Wigan lads I don't think much to them at international level. It's just who do you replace them with.

Yeh I agree on the second rowers. Ferres was good last night though, and Farrell is a machine who could play an 80 if needed, but can be a bit anonymous in attack in Internationals. Whitehead I hope will keep on improving.

We've also got a lot of young(ish) back rowers coming through who aren't quite there yet;
Currie
Greenwood
Wardle
Ward
Savelio

Hopefully a couple of those will kick on ahead of the World Cup.

Don't see why Tom Briscoe didn't get picked when Joe Burgess absolutely shat it after missing a tackle early on

He's another (Joe Burgess) who looks absolutely class at club level, but he plays for a team that dominates pretty much every single game. Not saying he's poor because he's not but he's not as good as Briscoe is. Used to make me laugh when fans from all clubs used to say Charnley was better than Briscoe. Not a chance.
They play for Wigan who are fantastic but none of them are 'that good' imo.

Good performance but think the back three look average. Defo.think briscoe deserves a place. By the back 3 I mean in the forwards

Yeh, I'd still put a fit gaz ellis in

they're ok, but give away too many penalties, especially Farrell. you get away with it at club level but you pay for it at top international level more often than not.

think the English game is missing big back rowers, all our big lads are plonked straight in at prop from a young age, which showed by how good our front rowers were on Sunday.

credit where it's due I thought Ferres had a good game but Farrell and Bateman (is he still a back rower most of the time?) were bullied by a bigger NZ. Bateman tried to run through their number 4 early on like he did against France and just got sat down every time.