The stage is set. . . .

C'mon England!

Even so far between West Ham and Stoke City.

How is that a chicken wing? Inglis had hold of Farrell so pretty much chicken winged himself!

I don't know if that was deliberate by Farrell but it's not what you want to see really.

Very good, controlled, opening few minutes, but it all looked a bit frantic when we got on their line. We don't have to score every time of course but we will need to be alot more composed as the game goes on.

Here we go with the referee, unsettling England

Australia don't look anything special. Best chance of making final today as I think NZ look better than OZ.

I take that back, at the moment he just looks out of his depth with some fussy decisions

There'd be players on report every set in Super League if he ref'd over here

Is the ref wearing trainers? Wtf.

This is soft as feck. Ridiculous.

That's a ridiculous penalty. It's not a sentence you hear very often, but O'Loughlin didn't do anything wrong then.

Real time, dropped it?

Replay. No.

Awful defence.

Wigan team, Wigan kit and Wigan sh*thouse tactics. Should have stayed in bed.

Pedantic officiating of the highest order so far.

One half chance, one try. We are still doing okay, but that's the difference.

Jennings is pushing his luck there btw. Nothing wrong with the grounding, but I bet he'll think twice about grounding it like that again.

Joel Tomkins and Josh Hodgson were shocking in defence there. Sam's attempt on Jennings wasn't great either but he is a hard man to stop 1 on 1.

How come the ref didn't pick up on the blatant obstruction when Widdop chipped over but some how saw Lockers apply pressure to the head in the tackle?

Kick chase is very poor

Really dumb play by Charnley.

Jodh Charnley what are you doing!!!! Absolute idiot!!

Clear flop by Cam Smith also. Ref is conveniently missing Aus infringes unsurprisingly.

Another late tackle on the English kicker. That's about 3 or 4 now...