Seemed a soft penalty against O'Loughlin. It didn't look a great deal worse than many of the others.

Shame the ref missed that touch by the Aussie hand that would have given us another set of six in a good position.

Overall Australia are clearly better but we're hanging in there and defending really well most of the time.

Hopefully we can get a bit more possession in their half. We haven't had much apart from the try.

He wouldn't be any better because our pack isn't getting them on the foot.

Same old story, Australia just asphyxiate the game by excellent kicking, late and early, with ours being predictable and lacking.

poms are doing ok scrambling in defence, whilst their defence has been poor in midfield, they are desperately getting to the tackle close to the line

I suspect that they won't be able to keep it up though, Australia look rusty, they should run away with it if they can get some rhythm

They also play more games. Kallum Watkins is playing his 33rd game today. The player with the most apperances in the Australia team this season (Morgan) is playing his 27th.

We seriously need to tackle this stupid idea that Super League clubs cannot be sustainable businesses unless they flog their players to the brink.

F****** Lomax

Key difference as always is that despite our so called strong pack, as the game gets going the Aussie pack dominates them, we tire and fall apart.

Jerry McG outstanding so far

He's been a right handful hasn't he?

Struggling to see what Heighington brings.

Maybe but Gale has a track record of going missing in big games, Sneyd won back to back Lance Todds due to his excellent kicking game.

Repeat set!! Cmon

THIS IS A DIFFERENT SPORT!!!

2 penalties!?

Lomax ffs!

Hardaker FFS

Does this ref know a zero tackle?

Both wings far and away Englands best players

Talk about our ruck speed/waiting for penalties and we've being far cleaner, they've flopped and messed about more and a few high shots ignored.

England playing really well this half. Come on! Just need to get some points.

If Hicks or child were ref here (in a SL game) we'd be up to 20 pens

FUCK OFF!

Wtf is that decision! ??

Another reason neutral refs are a must at international level.

I don't doubt for a moment most refs intend to play fairly - but unconscious bias is something else. I bet this ref supports Australia at cricket, RU, football...everything, so if he sees a hint of a touch there's every chance he can unconsciously decide not make the call, and 2 seconds later the decision is gone.

It's such an easy problem to solve yet competition after competition the RLIF continue to cast the same shadow on key games.

Oh look, there's another one. Terrible decision.

So you can lie in the ruck and prevent the both and that's a penalty to you?

Why do we always get e Aussie refs