Plenty of discussion to be had on the game itself, but just wanted highlight what a success hosting the game at Wembley has been. It has really felt like a proper international event today, and not a half-assed one held in a provincial town. The atmosphere was slow to start, but really built up as the fans started to believe that England could do it. The game was a great contest and if that was your first taste of live RL I'm sure you'd have been hooked.

Time to make Wembley a permanent fixture on the international calender, let's keep building until we sell the place out!

Agree.

I also hope this convinces the RFL that a double header for a semi final is a good idea. The Challenge Cup semis as a double header at somewhere like Etihad with months of build up could be a huge event.

What was the attendance? I didn't hear it called.

It was a great occasion but it's gutting we are going to have to wait at least 8 years until we can have a game over here with a similiar magnitude.

We're just waiting for William to watch the replay of the game and finish counting heads and tell us the true figure.

England-Australia is still a big draw, we just need to spend months if not a full year marketing it properly

It's won't be a world cup game though



Also, do we have a 4 nations down under next year?

That will be another acid test of our alleged recent progress as we have often been able to hold own when we play in our backyard.

67 500

Just announced:

67,545

Heart breaking to lose in such a fashion but it was a fantastic advert for Rugby League. Other than the result I don't think we could have asked for a greater spectacle.

67,500 turned up which is great. Much improved on the last double header. The only problem now is how do the RFL make the most of it moving forward. We need to have a big match played against some good quality opposition with a lot of marketing to perhaps pull in the crowds like that again and make Wembley a regular fixture for international RL. Playing games against the exiles or france and wales etc just isn't competitive enough to keep people interested.

A really positive day for RL. The majority of what I have seen from the trends on twitter (yes Rugby League trended!..) was nothing but praise for the game and a lot of people who had no idea about the rules etc and had never seen RL before but where enjoying it. The odd comment from League hating unionites but you can't please everyone.

Time to completely scrap internationals AGAINST nz/oz at DW, galpharm and KC.

It yells small time. If that semi had have been played at any of the stadiums mentioned above, it wouldn't have been anything as good a game today. Wembley made it an occasion and the players rose.

When the four nations come over here we can play the fouth nation at a smaller venue, OZ at Wembley for double header, NZ at Elland Road (I know it's a crap stadium but we always fill it) and the final at Etihad.

England's game should have been second........the only negative from the day is that 20,000+ haven't stuck around to see Australia beat Fiji by the same score or more than 2008........