i thought the refereeing was atrocious and was quite embarrassed to be honest. i dont buy into the whole australian referee's being biased and continually giving australia the 50 50 calls instead of england, but gee its hard to argue against it. i think australia would still have won, but the contest was taken out of it way too early. it was a great opening to the game, i think england were up for it but their outside backs are very ordinary and i dont think they are aggressive enough, they really should have stuck it to the aussies more. also, graham and crabtree should have nailed smith, he tapped the ball, end of story. you guys have a lot of work to do and the injuries havnt helped, but i can understand the frustration at us.

They should introduce 2 refs for these games as well like the NRL,one pom one oz ref would've made the difference.

I hope the pom refs are looking at this and saying let them come to England next year and will give them the same medicine and see how they feel lol.

I think every single Rugby League game should be played with the same rules, same officials, same everything. I hope no English refs are thinking like this as it would be a sham, the international game is struggling when it really shouldn't be. I'd rather be reading about how amazing the Aussies were than how garbage the ref was and how many Tongans and Fijians were in the Australia team.

How can a VT ref award a try 'benefit of doubt' for the aussies then when there is genuine doubt about the Lunt try (so much doubt that he couldn't decide himself), that he decides to change the rules halfway through the game and award 'ref's call'???

Pathetic decision to have the game reffed by aussies, inept refereeing start to finish.

Even the refs seem to buy into the fact that the aussies are the better team before the game has started, so rather then both teams being treated equally, they tret the aussie differently 50/50 calls are awared to the aussies 'because they are better so surely they are in the right';

Another prime example - Cam Smith taps the ball, putting the ball in play, changes his mind, the ref decides to lecture the england captain! Imaginge the other way round, Tomkins taps teh ball, changes his mind, gets smashed by the aussies, - everyone would be saying 'typical indecisive, clueless england' .

What could have been a close game against a poor aussie team was never given a chance by absolute inept refereeing - starting with a ball steal on goulding which should have been pen to england, but ended in the aussies scoring of gifted field position in our 20m.

When our officials stop rolling over, admitting we are beat before our players even get on the field we may start to compete.

I guarantee that the kiwis will not accept Archer and Clark in the final.

Bazza admitted on a previous thread that he thought the kiwis are favourites so doubt he will comment on it.

The aussies will try every trick in the book to get the referee ( and video ref)they want for the final.

For the good of international rugby league i have my fingers crossed for a New Zealand win in the final

Yep...come on Kiwis.