2 Dec: RLWC2017 (Final): Australia v England - Match Thread

[Gates1]

Mcgilivary just needed to look inside....

[RabbitRhinoovOZ]

Enjoyable game, Well played to all involved.

[snapski]

So close. Every one of you hold your heads up. So proud.

[jacksy]

Fluffed it.

[Futtocks]

That old familiar feeling.  

Well done, Australia. Held on like champions when they were out on their feet.

[CGD]

Good tough game that.

Cheers, England. 

[The Daddy]

The halves were the difference, should've picked Sneyd for game management 

[MatthewWoody]

It hurts. 

[jannerboyuk]

Gutted

[chuffer]

gutted....fantastic effort lads, so close at the end

[Northern Eel]

Well that was epic. What a game. Have we learnt from previous lessons? A little bit, but not quite enough. 

[Man of Kent]

Great test match.

Didn’t take our chances, sadly. 

I want to see more England/GB v Australia tests. We are much more of a match for them these days. 

[Mark S]

And the Aussie tell us that Origin is better than this! Absolute nonsense!

Well done England, with an Aussie ref it was always going to be difficult. 

International RL is alive and well!

[MatthewWoody]

Never been so close to winning it. 

[MZH]

Hard to be too critical. Outstanding effort. Zero composure.

[Wellsy4HullFC]

?

[Dave T]

Do you know what. Forget the criticism. We can disect that and be ultra critical but we were brilliant against an amazing team.

An ankle tap, a bounce of a ball. 

Rugby League at its very best - forget any other game or any other sport.

[Futtocks]

The better team won, but only just.

 

[graveyard johnny]

immensely proud of every single England player there, bit confused as to why gale kicked on the 2nd tackle in the dying mins but all in all not much in it

[Gates1]

Jesus's watched that last play 5 times now.  Mcgilivary has been player of the tournement but that was a terrible call.  Kick inside or pass inside it's a walk over try under the sticks....so close.

[Goughy]

Brutal game. I hate people feeling pride in a losing effort...but I am proud of England's performance in that game. Lacked execution but didnt lack effort.

[jacksy]

Well our defence is sorted..Time to work on our attack.

[Guest]

A bit more composure and we had that. Need to learn to stop panicking still!

[Gray1967]

If if if only...coulda and shoulda won that!

[The Daddy]

Lacked the composure in the end really missed O'Loughlin