The perfect player for golden point was sat in the stands. Wane has royally messed this all up, we should have had final minimun.

He picked some mates who should be nowhere near an England shirt.

That was horrible.
Can't complain, best team won.
Just terrible decisions in both attack and defence.

Ironically, he knocked on passing to himself

We had literally run the set we needed to run the play before. Another two drives and then go for it.

We got away with it and then did it again.

Not sure we can blame the coach for that, but sure we will find a way.

The fact Tomkins had to step up into the pivots in the last 10 says it all about Welsby. He can get away with his off the cuff Rugby in Super League against the lowest standard we’ve seen for decades.

I'm no Wane fan but he isn't to blame for that.
Senior pro's making terrible decisions he can't legislate against.
Absolutely gutted, classic MGS, I know have one hundred and twenty sheets worth of tickets for something I don't want to go to.

Same.

Went early (which I never ever do) because prices were getting daft and now I'm screwed.

I think the coach has a right to expect international players can catch a ball and throw passes that aren’t forward.
Englands right edge very poor in this game.
English national rugby league teams seem to lack the mental strength to maintain performance under pressure.
Having said that, congratulations to Samoa for a well deserved win.

This. A few players were found out today and aren’t as good as some thought at international level….

Cried out for Liam Farrell in the back row today. Some major value knocked off half that side. Not sure how RL over here recovers after that.

I think we know now…..

Bit dramatic, it will continue as normal.

Hardly set the world on fire this tournament anyway.

I thought Wane was partly to blame as well, what was he thinking of by bringing McLlorum back on when Radley opeating at 9 and Knowles at 13 was working well for quicker distribution and momentum.

Our right hand edge very poor and was responsilbe for 4 tries (3 for Samoa 1 disallowed England. The pressure really got to Welsby, Watkins and Young, we can excuse some of it with Welsby and Young at this level but Watkins wasn't on it at all.

Seemed to be disorganised on our end of sets, McLlorum couldn't find Williams and Tomkins at times and ended with Knowles and Whitehead with kicks that ended up nowhere.

You don’t inspire kids or investment on the back of failing to get to a final that was designed to get us there by design.

Micky being on in GP led to Welsby passing to himself (and knocking on) and Sam passing it forward after Welsby over ran him yes. Definitely.

Its a missed opportunity but to say the game hinged on it is way way over the top.

I tell you something, ive watched closely over the social media accounts since the start of the world cup and the only growth weve had to show for it is a several 1000 more followers on each platform. That tells you enough that our game is where it is in the market. People may like to watch it if nothing else is on but deciding to become a RL player or suddenley start following a team is a pipe dream.

Until school and club numbers improve we’re stuffed. Today was the first and only major chance for another decade where we had a shot of doing that.

Considering newbies to the sport would have no idea on the background of the teams involved I highly doubt that a win today or next week would have made a difference.

We may have had million of viewers on TV but this tournament has the most exposure our sport has ever had. Like I say only a few 1000 have decided to follow on the social media pages, that tells you how interested people actually are.

Whilst we feel this is the greatest game on earth unfortunatley the rest of the world dont. I stick by my point that its ok to watch for most if nothing else is on

We need to win a comp for the sport to grow. Simple.

Fingers crossed the women can do one better than their RU counterparts and maybe steal some of the media focus.

Remember when England rugby union side won the world cup. All we heard was this will grow the game and do wonders for rugby union with scenes never seen before.

I think you are bright enough to see all pipe dreams that never came to fruition.

The idea that England losing today will see Rugby League never recover is laughable.

The RFL and clubs need to do more than hope for England winning to attract more kids.

They are just choosing not to bother.

Ask the RFU and while you are at then Australian Rugby. Ask them what impact a world cup win did for the sport and where was the huge growth of the game they were dreaming about.

A world cup win is not some magical dust which will see Rugby League achieve huge growth. The game needs way more actions and plans to be put in place for real growth.

Its not that simple is it ? People arent just running 10000metres because mo farah won gold at the olympics or taking up curling.

Its a pipedream and quite frankly Rugby League attitude all over that winning a world cup would change the sport.

We were $h!t today, End of.

Just got back, another great game to watch.

Obviously gutted about the result but the Emirates is a great venue and it was great to hear lots of Southern accents in the ground and lots of (and I don't mean this as an insult) Union types there. All the Southerners around me were gripped by the game and commented how exciting it had been.

Once we have done the post mortem we should be paying Samoa to fly over next year and market it as a 'revenge' game.