Official attendance was 42334.

England did well and two bad refereeing errors in no time at all cost our side.

On balance it was an enjoyable game and irrespective of those two bad reffing errors Oz always looked like they would win.

Having said that it was a lot closer than I expected.

Sam Tomkins was very good as usual and both England wingers were impressive.

Sorry FRank absolutete rubbish. Its a long time since iv'e seen a Aussie side needind to work for 80 minuites against england and but for the ref we would have won.

Yep , that game was there for the taking.
Pretty sure that if Westwood would ve made that high shot on Williams , he would ve walked.
As for the Briscoe No Try, bad mistake from the ref who could ve quite easily gone to VR.
As for Tim Sheens he`s like Phil Gould, a very good coach but a total obnoxious weapon.

Come on You England at the KC next week.

Cheers Bart.

Great game- great advert for RL. I was write about "still in it at half time". Now lets beat the Kiwis

well its a real shame we could not of got more fans to attend, i attended as i am a rl fan as well as a leigh fanm you can be both you know. unforced errors by us plus one or two decisuions go the other way and we'd of really been in with a chance, just hope we firstly take nz at hull and then have another real crack at the aussiues at elland rd.

you know something we as a game can't bemoan the unuon boys gettinbg all the press coverage and the hype, when we struggle to only half fill our national stadium to watch the rl national team. For what its worth i had a great day yesterday watching my country.

Couldn't agree more, we had a great day too! Watched both matches, thought the new Wembly was a brilliant venue. Great atmosphere, pity more people weren't there but those of us who were, had a fantastic time.

If that was attendance on the day, then not too shabby........but would that figure also include the 15000 'Club Wembley' members as well?

It won't have included them as it isn't included in their package in the same way that the Challenge Cup is, although they will have had first priority to buy their box.

I don't see why the show piece game should be played in an area of the country where hardly anyone supports the code. Why should I pay for transport to get down to Wembley when it could have been held up here and we'd have filled somewhere out?

People just haven't got the money to spend on things like this at the moment.

In fairness Kev I can't see where it could have been played up here and housed a crowd like that. And playing a game at Wembley gives huge kudos to the event which has certainly seen an increase in media coverage, though it's a little daft where the situation now is there isn't any live terrestrial TV coverage and the final will be at a Yorkshire dump less than half the size of Wembley.

They could have played at Old Trafford and had they known well enough in advance United's game could have been switched for an away fixture or the rugby played on Sunday.

Or maybe they'd have been better served playing the England v Australia game at Elland Road and filling the place out. Other alternativess with less capacity are Wigan, Huddersfield or Bolton, rather we fill somewhere and turn a few away than play to half empty stadium.

I watched GB play Australia at the Reebok a few years back and that wasn't a sell out either.

That's the whole point Kev, that we get more than enough games up here, but playing at the national stadium makes it an 'event'. No chance of getting United agreeing to two blank weekends within a month of each other though.