No chance, it was a clear one on one and Brown just pulled his arm away and he lost control, clean knock on.
Great match, absolutely non stop.
You can shove your kick n clap sh ite up your jacksie later,

Thank god for that.

70 mins a good solid performance in defence. 10 mins poor.
Nothing on attack, other than the 3 opportunities we scored. He'll of alot of work to do for next week.

Nah, loose carry.

Oh my god! I am feckin shaking! What a finish!! What a game!! Take a breath!!

Just hope Tonga can kick on from this.

Cheated, how?
Brown pulled his arm in a one on one, the Tongan player dropped it cold.

Wasn’t it whitehead? Could be argued a one on one strip depending on whose side you are on I suppose. Fantastic game

Great comeback from Tonga at the end but what were England doing in those last few minutes!

No, you're right, it was Whitehead, Brown the tackle before.
Still was a loose carry, great tackle by Whitehead.

Should have gone upstairs. Having seen it again think they may have gone for a try.

Gale needs to front up, or f*** off. Thrown around all game by JT, Hopoate, Hurrell

Literally a match winning tackle. Probably as important tackle as Houghton’s was in the Challenge cup final. Hopefully the Tonga comeback will sharpen us up for next week and show that we can’t afford to clock off for a second. 1 great performance needed and the cups ours! You only need to be at your best for 1 game to get the glory, next week could be ours. Come on England, we can beat em.

The first 2 tries Tonga scored were awful from us, especially the 2nd one.

I think he pulled the ball, it should have been play-on

they just won that game

Because he can't learn that he needs to tackle around the legs, still falling short IMHO but too late now to change anything.

Play as well defensively as the 1st 70 mins and we're in with a chance.
Need to do something attacking wise. In 80 minutes only really created 3 chances. Clinical yes, enough to beat the Aussies no.

He went to video ref for everything except for a possible try in the last second of the WC semi! The only reason I can see is that they wanted England in final. To me a clear try.

oh my, just saw the replay on the news, what a horrible farce, Tonga should have won, the ref made a terrible blunder

Your country arent good enough to beat Tonga, they should feel terribly cheated

clear to me also

He definitely should have gone, if just to make sure. He did for Bateman's try and that was clearly a try.

JM 'lost' the ball in similar circumstances 2 mins earlier, cant remember if it went forward from the strip though

Not a clear try at all, 50/50 maybe, but not a clear try. Should have gone upstairs though. If it had have done it would have gone up as no try and no 100% evidence to overturn, but definitely should have been looked at.

As Wilkin said - would be deemed stripped everytime in Super League. Whitehead clearly targeted the ball as he had no chance of tackling him. Whatever your view the point is he did not go to the video ref for the most important moment of the WC so far. The question that has to be asked is - why? What is the point of using video if it is not to enhance the integrity of the game? As I said - cheated.

I think the ref has blown for the knock on before Fifita regathered and went over otherwise he may have gone to the screen.

That was a really dominant performance from us for 70 mins then we switched off. We’ll have to step up another level next week to be in with a chance.

I'm delighted we won but I'm fuming at the way that game ended!