Great for 55 mins then the fell out again.



Love em or hate em, the Aussies showed some touches of genius.



Look it one way, at least Chris Bridge got to swap shirts with Greg Inglis. If he's one of the best centres we have in the country, the 2013 world cup will be coming too soon.

the simple fact is at school level the best athletes in Oz get cherry picked by NRL teams, in england its football clubs, hence we are unlikely to ever dominate them

In fairness, the magnitude of the scoreline didn't reflect the game.



The Aussies pulled off 4 or 5 world class tries from kicks that were pretty much impossible to defend against.



The English punched above their weight for much of the game, but the two teams are worlds apart and eventually that gulf will tell.



I just wanted England to participate, and apart from a horrendous last 15 minutes, they did.

Agree 100%. The sooner kids realise that football is for girls, the better.

I have a feeling that the potential of international fame and multimillioniare lifestyles may go some way to clouding that fact when these kids are considering which sport to pursue.

You can earn £250,000 a week in football and retire healthy or £70,000 a year and be half dead at 28 in league. Tough call.

It was 22-16 when Shenton went off. We then conceded 4 trys down the right hand side. The reshuffle by Smith did not work. I'm not saying Shenton is an amazing defender,i just think it left us very disorganised & exposed when he left the field.

Every year after the international games we say same things and same debates.



It's always there are to many overseas players, we play to many games, poor coaching at grassroots, rugby league is behind other sports in England but at the end of the day we just can't produce good enough players.



The is enough kids playing rugby league all over the country to find the best of the youth but for some reason we just can't produce the same level of players.

Nice, worthy of a sig is that.

Its worth reflecting on the fact that the Saints Junior Academy recently beat three Aussie teams

It's also worth pointing out that our GB/England youth side also beat the convict youth side but it all goes wrong after that.

It played out exactly as everyone predicted pre-tourney : the forwards were at least the equal of the Aussies. The half-backs were a fair distance from the Aussies, but have youth on their side. The threequarters and fullback were in another class altogether. Don't get me wrong - Shenton defended well, Fox took his try well. But not once did our threequarters hand off an oponent or evade/break a tackle, let alone run a perfect line to hit a gap at pace. Compare that to the Kangaroos, who broke umpteen tackles, ran like racehorses and handed off the first two tacklers nearly every time.



Until we produce centres who can match the Aussies, then we'll never win a match. The last time we won, we had Gleeson and Senior, back in the days when both were actually pretty good. There isn't a British centre in the SL as good as either Gleeson or Senior were then, let alone as good as Inglis is now.