England have turned up! Makinson’s making a difference to set starts.

Connor's doing great

I've got to admit that he has made a massive impact - one good positive to take back

Aww I wanted to hear a shotgun not a hooter

The whole thing is very amateur for me, the national anthems, empty stadium, altitude affecting players and far too many errors. The Hall decision was embarrassing as well.

Typical miserable RL fans.

Good game this.
Can see the English getting on top as the match goes on.

I’ve come round to the fact that this isn’t about selling out a 80000 stadium, or even half that, it’s about playing a game around about half way between the two nations (7000 miles from NZ; 4500 miles from England) where the time will be good for people back home in both nations to watch it live. If we can do the same every year in different cities (or the same one of Denver want it) and we get more fans each time then great. This is our first go at it.

If the game was held in either England or New Zealand there’d be a similar sized crowd so I don’t know how many people everyone is expecting to turn up for the game in Denver.

Jesus look at the Kangaroos and Kiwis attendances in the World Cup, this is a more impressive crowd (not as big but more impressive) than either of those Tier 1 RL nations could muster in their own back yards.

The anthems mean nowt, in the London 2012 Olympics they put a South Korea flag up for North Korea’s national anthem at the footy. Shit happens.

The game is exciting, faster and harder than a usual SL game and probably fewer errors despite there being a few tonight

A Denver Bronco was interviewed at half time by James Hooper on the Fox coverage (shown in Australia on Fox and in USA on CBS Sports Network). The US NFL player said that he really enjoyed the game and that he thought that rugby league would take on in the USA.

Don't watch then, off you trot sonshine.

The whole thing has been done poorly and in a half-d manner. Not a single tweet from Denver Broncos Twitter account, for example. The players are all knackered and it just looks poor to me.

We need to just be a little (for once ) intelligent here.

Field position.

Defence.

Ball control.

Manchester City didn’t tweet about Taylor Swift concerts at the Etihad the other week

Racist Trumpian sniper in the stands just shot McGilvary.

Nope...it was stage 1 of MooreSports of proving they could sell a foreign sport to a foreign audience over 6 weeks at a world cup...so they deliver the #1 and #2 ranked teams to a one off exhibition and failed to deliver......RLWC 2015 needs to be reallocated now.

Not remotely similar, Taylor Swift doesn’t need help to sell out concerts as they will already be well known through promotion from elsewhere and she isn’t doing a concert in Manchester to attract a new audience.

What a dick.

how is that not a yellow, thaler is such a fecking weak ref

My last post was aimed at Luke, but now also at Thaler.

Thaler clearly been told to keep it 13 vs 13, another poor decision.

I don’t understand how that’s not a card. I’d have sent him for that. Straight red.

Couldn't wait to sin bin Hull the other week

And the Academy Award for best drama acting goes to...Watene-Zelezniak.

How the hell is Luke still on the field? Filthy act. Get him bent in half.

Quite enjoying this now. If England can stick on in the tackle we should take it. The Kiwis are big and powerful but too many experienced lads dropping off after contact. We're looking good going forward.

Bent Thaler is a terrible ref in the mould of Ganson.

Shocking how Association Football at the world cup is just getting used to the VR but already making our VR's looking just like the idiots they have always been.

At this level Bateman and Percival need to increase their calorie intake and reduce the reps/increase the weight of the weights in their sets in the gym. Properly undersized and understrength

Look at the size of Isaako at 22 and they’re both 24 and look like that