I'd say Australia were very good this tournament. Very clinical. They also seem to have reaquired that ruthless streak.



Both England and NZ underperformed. Both have some work to do for next years World Cup.



Scotland were perhaps slightly better than expected.



It's hard to comment on the health of international RL outside of this because there aren't enough games, though the Pacific tests looked a good spectacle and Wales went OK in their World Cup qualifiers.



The interesting thing for me is the noise from the likes of Mal and Cam smith about wanting to make the green and gold jersey the pinnacle of Australian RL again. If there's any truth to that, we might finally start to see Internationals in general get some serious traction again. Of course it would also require people on this side of the hemisphere getting their act together also.

He was paid to do it by Australia and it worked

Wonder if Leigh & Salford did the same?

Kiwi defence was all over the place today.

They seemed to get their numbers wrong far too often and as others have said, Aussie are just clinical if they are given a chance.

They (NZ) needed to stir things up early in the game, which may have rattled the Aussies and help get the crowd going.

2nd best across the park and credit to Aus for being ruthless.



Apart from the slight lack of leg room, Anfield was a magnificent stadium, would certainly go again to watch RL

Obsessed.

Your post speaks volumes.

I really liked anfield, great historical ground and good crowd. That crowd is the highest of any tri-nations or four nations final so people that are criticising it need to go away. Definitely take some more games there!

I see you have found out

he was the worse assistance coach we have ever had

I thought 40k was a good crowd for a non-England final tbh.



Even as a Leeds United fan I would say no more games at Elland Road though. The big East stand is far too cramped to be comfortable and West can be even worse. Only issue with Anfield for me was the short pitch.

40k was decent for a non-England final I thought.

It's something to build on and worthy of an England game there in future and a WC QF or SF in 2021.





As for the other stadiums/attendances, they were a bit of a mixed bag;



5,300 at Craven Park and 6,600 at Workington - not great. I'd have liked to have seen the Scotland games actually in Scotland to see how they did.



24k sell out at Huddersfeild was great, maybe a larger stadium next time.



21k at the double-header in Coventry. Not bad considering it was played in Cov, but it'd have sold more tickets elsewhere IMO



35,500 in London, pretty good I think for a group game and vital we have visibility in the capital.





As always, there was a lack of marketing and it took an age for the dates/venues to be released. Both aspects need to improve, but we say that every time it seems.

I enjoyed Anfield yesterday. Better than Elland Rd IMO and great venue for future internationals.

I sat in the kop. the seats were as cramped as elland road imo, spent most of the game dodging try cards that kids were turning into planes and throwing around, probably says all you need to know about how good that contest was. That said, i could see it being a great atmosphere were England to be playing there and playing well. I would take a game there again for sure.