Richard Lewis is doing for our country at rugby league as he did for our country while he was in charge at tennis, it not working 37years it just not working, try leading us somewhere and not following.

Fitness and class the Aussies have taken the game to a new level, but of course hving a SL will sort everything out (like has been said for the last 14 years) won't it?

We are preparing for 2013 - well that's what the SKY muppets told us tonight



I remember being told after every other whopping that we can look forward to a bright future with the young 'uns coming through.



Bless 'em

Have been saying for years that until we offload all our foreign imports in SL and bring on our own youth then we will always be miles behind the Aussies. It may take 10 years to develop but it is the only way forward at international level. How many imports from GB do Australia have? Says it all really. You have to bring your own young talent through from a very early age to compete with our friends in the southern hemisphere. We are not learning from the past and are falling behind year after year. SL teams being allowed to sign on underrated Aussies on a meal ticket is NOT the way forward!

I'm glad im from the D.R.L. being English must 'suck' tonight

Got to hand it to the Kangaroos yet again. We gave them a real good game for 60 minutes and its as if they just said 'right lads, enough of this, let's put it to bed now'. The execution for some of their tries was outstanding.

For me, until we improve some of the so called basics of Rugby League over here, we're never going to be in a position to beat them. Today was a perfect example. We matched them for 60 minutes in the forwards and our young half backs gave them problems due to their unpredictability. Unfortunately for us, the Aussie kicking and passing is on another level to us and when they turned it up a notch, as we tired, we saw what it can do to us.

Solution? Get away from the 'give it to the big lad and drive it up the middle' game that we instill into our youngsters as can be seen when watching many a game at grass roots level. In fact, why not take away competitive rugby at infancy level and focus more on passing and kicking skills. Until the passing and especially the accurate kicking that we saw today from the 'Roos becomes second nature to our players, we will never be able to win a big one IMO.

When you dont meet the man with the ball at the line of srumage and you allow a player like Thurston to run the length of the line without putting a hand on him you are going to loose. Also when you have a Ref that was absolutely rubbish your head at some point will go down and your concentration will slip. I was absolutelt amazed at some of the decisions and non decisions for an international final the officiating from the lot of them was appalling. I have to give it to our lads for keeping their cool. Fromwhere I was sat even I could see the Aussie lad pass the ball back into play while stood on the touch line with the ref and the assistant both within 10ft of him and looking at him but let the play go on. I counted 10 high shots that the ref was right on top of but never blew up. I think when we lost Shenton the lads seemed to lapse. What has been said about him, is he ok? I enjoyed tonight and the atmosphere was good. I was a bit to close to the band though and I've got a bloody headache with shouting.

It's no good blaming the ref though. He was equally good or bad for both sides and I thought he let the game flow to be fair to him. I've seen far worse games where the ref has ended up being the centre of attention. I can take a few mistakes here and there, but I can't stand constant blowing ruining the flow of a game.

The ref can't be at fault for the last 20 minutes today. The England team were blowing on 60 minutes. The 'Roos running, passing and kicking left us for dead. The SKY team were right when they said the Origin game gives them an advantage. We have nothing like that over here and our top players don't play enough high-intensity games during the league season for our players to be prepared physically and mentally for games like tonight.

Basically, there are a number of areas where we need to improve the game over here. It goes far beyond franchising and expansion, as has been the RFL's policy over the last few years. Copying the Australians in certain areas might not bring us victory, but at least it would ensure some fundamental improvements.

I thought the ref was good TBH.

There were several calls that I thought he'd got wrong but, having watched a replay, he got the vast majority right.

NEVER HAVE NEVER WILL BE GOOD ENOUGH WE ARE MILES BEHIND THEM ,CLASS.

I felt as though Bentham 'had' to give the second try that went to the screen as he had the Aussie ref breathing down his neck, after quite rightly disallowing the first 'square in the air' decision.
No way was that a try, and the other that went to the screen should have been chalked off as well.
Thought the ref was poor, and seem to punish England for offenses the Aussies got away with.

I wonder if he'd been promised a good turn in the NRL next season???

Still absolute credit too the aussies for being patient and waiting too pounce, they really where a different class.
I thought we did match them and we ran out of steam.

I hope Leigh play an exciting brand of football under Millward that the Aussies play!

Until we get rid of the teams that are filled with all the overseas playes until the RFL start pumping money into areas where RL is played by the majority until theres a level playing field for all we aint got no chance. But why should they change it Leeds win the GF every year so the game must be strong in this country musnt it? Bollox.