For all the ones that know categorically that England haven't a chance of winning today, can we have some I will "show my @rse in the Spinning Jenny shopping centre" type comments

if England win. Only post if you will do what you say mind should impossible happen.


Me, I think we'll win

I think that we CAN win, but the aussies are deserved favourites so we will have to turn up collectively and individually for 80 minutes. We need to scrap the conservative style, the aussies will eat it up and come at us twice as hard. We need to play it sensibly but when we get a chance take it ruthlessly and confidently and throw caution to the wind WHEN THE CHANCE IS ON!

If we keep mistakes and penalties to a minimum, stick to our structures in defence and take our chances when they come (and they will!!) then we have a good enough team to turn them over.

Come on Englaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand!!!!!

As long as an NRL refferee is in charge of the match Australia will win , they are too scared of losing their job

It is incredibly frustrating watching the blatant niggling , lying on , over zealous tackling on certain players , all allowed time after time

How Whatmough managed to stay on the pitch is just a mystery ?

It WAS a mystery, seeing as the culprit was Williams

England played very well but with that ref in charge we were never gonna win ! Bring on New Zealand

He ruined the game for me the useless ************* livid thats what I am livid

Why did Williams spend the whole match lying on and niggling in the tackle as well ? , not to mention actually picking tackled players up by the legs ?

The Williams tackle could have easily been a binning

Like you say he was a wimp and if we get to the final hope they have someone else with bottle to ref the game

Ref was a joke.....try not given for England, Convict player not sent off, and blatent holding down on nearly every tackle (did us for same thing most of time)....Ref should be sacked

Only good thing to come out of that game was Slaters injury.

The comment about slater is disgusting.
England played well and can win the tornamnet

OUT OF ORDER!!


Serious injury to ANY player should not be cited as "good", especially a world class one!

Wasnt to be nasty pal.......Slaters injury helps other teams as he is by far the best player in the world and his injuy helps us if we get to the final which I think we will.

Australia didnt impress me at all and IMO with a decent ref the result could of been different.

Brilliant display by England - BUT we can't afford a 'dodgy' ref, they can. 1st half Ref was OK, but 'lost the plot' 2nd half. Briscoe's try, he should have been 'calm' about the situation, and used the 'video ref' - an experienced official would have done so. Williams should have been 'sin binned' but typical RL ref, didn't have the b***s to act, put it on report.
Next game, I wouldn't pick Rangi Chase, England need a TEAM player.
I predicted a thrashing for us, now I know why I avoid the bookies !

Absolutely made up the hunchbacked freak as done his shoulder in,perhaps if he had tried to tackle the winger instead of trying the maim him with his shoulder charge he wouldn't now be injured.

Don't cry any tears for these barstewards who were piggy backed up and down the field by one of there own refs,yes I know he's a kiwi but were does he want to ref?

Nice to see the players have some fire back in there bellies with a couple of punch ups,its what we have been missing for years

The ref was not ok for all the game. He rightly penalised Ben Westwood for using the ball player to get to his feet by pushing on his back but never ever penalised the Aussies for it or the elbows, knees and standing over a player who is trying to get to his feet. I was seething listening to Sheen before the game talking about it going unpunished. They are the worst culprits of it. He had just penalised Westwood then watched Rangi Chase get to his feet with Ingles still trying to pull his collar off. Sheen is a very manipulative person me thinkjs. Having said that I still don't think we would have won. ( Just edited)

Thats not very Christian ,Jesus my Brother you should show repentance , to these boys .

fook um can't stand them,they get all the help ever time it gets close

Maybe , but we should never wish harm on our Bretheren , you moreso should know this , love thy neighbour , as i do , and i dont even know thy neighbour .

As I'm absolutely certain you held the same view when 2 players you probably wouldn't refer to as a 'hunchbacked freak' - Sam Burgess and Ben Westwood,recently 'tried to maim'

FuiFui Moimoi and Jordan James with shoulder charges I won't ask you to confirm it.
What was your view about the criticism of the performance Ranghi Chase by his new coach Ian Millward in the post-match discussion on BBC TV ?

Yello ..............I see the Tramadol is still working.

Wake up guys we're still not within a million miles of the Aussies.

Before we carry on with the ref nonsense. Yes the England "double movement" try should have stood, and yes Williams probably should have seen red. But everything else was spot on. As for NRL refs, Bentham let loads more holding down go last week in the game between Aus & NZ - every tackle there was a full-on wrestle. So no point to be made there.

Positives - Tomkins cost me a fair bit of money by not scoring but had a great game linking in to all our attacking plays. Class performance. And Ryan Hall more than proved himself on the international stage with 2 excellently taken tries.

Negatives - Rangi Chase was absolute dog poop for the second game in a row. Sinfield was just overrated (again). Westwood has gone beyond "penalty machine" and is now in the classification of "complete liability" - first touch in both last 2 games has been a stupid penalty conceded, allowed Slater to steal the ball far too easily 1 on 1 when attacking their line early on, and the last Aussie try was started and finished by you-know-who (high shot on Thaiday to give them position, followed by complete missed tackle (not even close) to let them over). And probably much more I've tried to forget. But Eddie & Stevo love him so I'm sure all will be forgiven.

The Slater injury was a big leveller - without it we wouldn't have even been in the game. But if anybody will see the advantage from it it's NZ, especially if Williams also ends up missing the final after the "on-report".

Great effort England, but against a relatively poor Aussie side (compared to recent years) we're kidding ourselves if we think the gap is narrowing.

Come on Kiwis in the final.

ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz

What a great game that we could have won.
The loss of Ellis and Graham cost us, and showed why 2 props are needed on the bench. Peacock, Westwood and Morley stepped up to take the strain brilliantly though.
The high shot and the disallowed try probably cost us the match, but Briscoe should have gone in the corner instead of stepping inside.
Tomkins is pure class, the RFL should pawn the crown jewels to keep him in RL.
Chase is an enigma, great running at them but never a playmaker - that brainfart at the 20m tap let them in the game when we should have been creating field position.
Fantastic game live on the BBC played in front of a decent crowd.

Well beaten by probably the weakest Australian team for a long time. In the England team only Sam Tomkins is truly world class.

So if England do mission impossible and beat NZ and Aus in the final then excuses are there already to put England down.


Only in RL.