I enjoyed the game and the crowd of over 14k suggests there will be an appetite for it as long as the clubs and players continue to back it.
England were without Ellis, Burgess & Widdop as everyone knows but they were also without James Roby and probably the biggest loss was scrum half Danny Brough.
Broughs been the best scrum half in SL by some distance and if he can take that form into an international he will cause problems for any opposition.
One negative from last night was the form of Peacock, Sinfield & Morley who all looked below par, the immediate assumption is that they're past their best and no longer at the level required for Test match football.
I'll wait to see how they respond before passing judgement on that but the signs last night were there for all to see.
As someone said earlier, if you want to create a game that pushes the England team and offers a level somewhere close to a southern hemisphere Test match then you've got to accept that England might lose, otherwise what's the point!
Final point, Steve McNamara isn't the right man for the job and I fear that any benefits we might derive from the NRL based players, the form of Brough and the emergence of some decent backs (McGilveray, Briscoe, S Tomkins etc) will all be wasted by very poor coaching.
What let down the English is terrible organization in attack - they didn't put together a set move. 
