Always hope for the best as regards England, but generally expect not much

Made hard work of the first 40!

Think there will be an improved second half performance.

we were never going to win by 20.
got what i thought, a win in a tight match, just.

Need to improve defensively for rest of tournament.

Think Cooke summed it up perfectly when asked by Carl what he thought of the game on twitter......

@pcooke06: @hallyboy03 never going to be a classic, slick with changes and only getting together 10 days ago. Job done, move on. #optimisticthinking

So the aussies got beat.

Whats with the commentators and everyone saying they're going through a transitional period and had 3 players on daboo.

They seemed to play well enough but were beaten by a better side on the day.

If England had lost yesterday no one would have mentioned us going through a transitional period and the fact we had 3 players on Debut and also the best player in the world at the moment wasn't playing. SAM BURGESS.
We also had our captain out injured. Although i think James Graham s a worthy captain.