Congratulations New Zealand.

[RecordBreakingMaroons.]

I'll take my hat off to both teams. That was an incredible game of Rugby League.

NZ miracle at 79:38.

 

[flamin]

Wholeheartedly agree.

And congratulations to England. Played out of their skins today. Absolutely encaspulated the theatre of sport.

 

[parraparraparra]

Spoilers

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Wow - I noticed Brian Noble mention a few times in commentary that it was the best rugby on the planet. Nice to hear broadcast live on BBC as it was there for all to see that RU doesn't come close to those heights whereas RL is probably in for a similar treat next week.

One shame though is that RL would have been buzzing in the media all week had england made it through....

 

[Perth Red]

Amazing game, still trying to figure out how we lost it. Now I know what nsw fans go through every year!

 

[thorson1987]

Amazing game, still trying to figure out how we lost it. Now I know what nsw fans go through every year!

Slight difference, your coach was smart enough to drop your version of Mitchell Pearce.

 

[Diesel]

Hats off to both sides, really impressive stuff

 

[tmfsd]

Slight difference, your coach was smart enough to drop your version of Mitchell Pearce.

Haha so true. And Widdop definitely played a lot better than Rangi has all tournament. Feel so bad for the Poms losing that 1

 

[MrAnonymous]

Best game i have seen in a while.

Cummins tried his best to f**k it.

 

[LeagueXIII]

Loved the variation in the English attack, plenty of ball movement and mixing up their plays.

 

[JasonE]

Desperate defence from both teams was extraordinary, great stuff.

 

[ozbash]

Save the congrats for next week, boys. That was nothing..

 

[WaznTheGreat]

England the much better team,very lucky the Kiwis

 

[deluded pom?]

Congrats to the Kiwis. It's an eighty minute game and they used every second of it. Absolutely gutted when SJ went over. Such effort from the England team didn't deserve to lose in such a cruel fashion but lose they did. I was immensely proud of the team's commitment and I feel Steve McNamara's detractors may now have to tuck into some humble pie.

 

[babyg]

Best game if footy ive seen. Gutted for england. Watch out australia.

 

[Springs]

Amazing.

England I thought were better and created more opportunities with great attack, just failed at the last second so many times. There were so many little things that happened, if just one went the other way England would've won. Westwood losing it just before grounding, Sinfield's missed kick, Hall's dropped intercept, so so many last ditch tackles from NZ...

Graham and S. Burgess were immense. The only player I can fault is Sinfield for his missed kick and rush out of the line on Johnson, but he played tremendous for the rest of the game. Tomkins, Watkins, Widdop, Roby, Ferres, O'Loughlin all brilliant.

It's a disappointment that we only got to see these two play once in the tournament, definitely need more tests in the future. Should be three match series between all 3 big teams in the future, even if we get one match of that quality a year it will become as big as Origin, which hasn't seen a game of such epicness for a long time, just lots of hype and Ch9 bullshit.

 

[deluded pom?]

Amazing.

England I thought were better and created more opportunities with great attack, just failed at the last second so many times. There were so many little things that happened, if just one went the other way England would've won. Westwood losing it just before grounding, Sinfield's missed kick, Hall's dropped intercept, so so many last ditch tackles from NZ...

Graham and S. Burgess were immense. The only player I can fault is Sinfield for his missed kick and rush out of the line on Johnson, but he played tremendous for the rest of the game. Tomkins, Watkins, Widdop, Roby, Ferres, O'Loughlin all brilliant.

It's a disappointment that we only got to see these two play once in the tournament, definitely need more tests in the future. Should be three match series between all 3 big teams in the future, even if we get one match of that quality a year it will become as big as Origin, which hasn't seen a game of such epicness for a long time, just lots of hype and Ch9 bullshit.

Never mind that. How's the tooth? ;-)

 

[Springs]

Never mind that. How's the tooth? ;-)

It's gone lol. I went to the game looking like the Freak of Baker St and about less about 500 pounds. For a country that has a stereotype of bad teeth, your dentists are f**king expensive.

 

[ozenzud]

My fear now is that we get a lopsided final due to the Kiwis being smashed and bashed in that game and not being able to get up for the final.

Maybe couple changes might freshen the team.

What a great tournament. Pity noone in NZ watching it to date.

 

[Gurdy]

My fear now is that we get a lopsided final due to the Kiwis being smashed and bashed in that game and not being able to get up for the final.

Maybe couple changes might freshen the team.

What a great tournament. Pity noone in NZ watching it to date.

You might be surprised how many people in New Zealand have been watching it - its just the rugby biased media who haven't been talking about it