'13 WC | Semi Final | New Zealand 20-18 England | Wembley

[taxidriver]

After two years of steve price rubbish, im actually enjoying a game of league

 

[slammingsam]

England killed them up front for the most part but little to show for it. I can see guys like Johnson and Luke winning it for England.

 

[Mader45]

Cant fault anything except the kicking from the NZ halves.

 

[vamosrafa]

Widdop, Tomkins, Sinfield and Charnley are also playing quite well. Poms containing Luke well, and limiting sonny bills impact. Whether they will keep this intensity up on the second half will be interesting.

 

[Diesel]

I hope Booze Rothfield is watching this and chokes on his keyboard.

Boozehound would've passed out by 7pm

 

[flamin]

I applaud both teams. Brilliant, just brilliant.

 

[Danish]

S Burgess easily best player on the field in that 1st half. He was immense.

That gong goes to Graham. Absolutely dominated.

In saying that I can't think of a bad player for either side, with most playing out of their skin.

A deserving semi final

 

[Dav0c]

Not good for my heart this.

 

[LeedsStorm]

Really don't understand people who don't like this game. f**king marvellous

 

[PARRA_FAN]

I applaud both teams. Brilliant, just brilliant.

Agreed. What a great first half of football.

 

[Dark Chook]

who will hit the wall first?

 

[Harrigan]

Great first half.

Cudjoe has been a bit slow on a couple of occasions though. I think Watkins has Goodwins number all day long and that's a matchup we need to isolate more IMO as the second half goes on.

 

[afinalsin666]

This is all meaningless. The players are just going through the motions. Shit game, no heart.

 

[Dark Chook]

This is all meaningless. The players are just going through the motions. Shit game, no heart.

gold

 

[Billythekid]

Let's hope the second half delivers, what a great game. Sam Burgess has been immense, no question best on field imo.

 

[franklin2323]

What a game! This should be played to anyone that doubts international footy

 

[The Clan]

England's pack on top but poor use of some great positions by Cudjoe has limited the damage.
A piece of magic by Whare and RTS has offered NZ something from the first half

 

[afinalsin666]

Chompy has the edge on Burgess, barely. Setting up the try outs him ahead, but both are huge.

 

[Philip_Smith007]

How does video ref get involved for the knock on/strip to reverse call, yet no involvement for the kick back rather than a knock on we saw 3 times on replay????
Good game, NZ kicking game needs improvement giving England to much field position.

 

[Billythekid]

Chompy has the edge on Burgess, barely. Setting up the try outs him ahead, but both are huge.

Burgess has had more impact imo. The main reason i give him the edge though is that NZ have clearly come out to try and rush up and shut burgess down and he has made his impact regardless.