That’s it from the Wembley,The team move north for the second test at Everton’s stadium next sunday,Thanks for your company,There is a lot of mealy-mouthed talk of small margins among pundits on the BBC, which is nonsense,England were very poor and a long way short of the Kangaroos from 20 minutes onwards, because at this level being ten percent worse is a million miles margin.

England coach Shaun Wane.“We weren’t clinical enough.We undersold ourselves, but we can fix that this week.You can’t make errors, and if you get the chance to score then you have to score.I thought our physicality was good, we made line-breaks but when you turn the ball over on tackle three and four that’s an issue at this level.

”Reece Walsh has won Man Of The Match on his debut,“It’s great playing with all these world class players,I most happy about the two tries I sopped, that goes a long way, and I managed to get the late try”80 mins,The hooter blows to conclude a comprehensive Australian victory,79 mins.

A ruthlessly spirit sapping kick is angled deep towards the touchline by Australia,Welsby fields it but flings it back inside to avoid carrying into touch,It flies to Young who is hammered behind his line by chasing defence,78 mins,When all else fails, fight.

And that is exactly what McMeeken has decided is the way forward as he starts but of shoving with Fa’asuamaleaui that results in a good few players from each team joining the rammy.Ref tells everyone to calm down.77 mins.A late penalty to England for an Australian escorting offence has Clark forcing over on a short run from dummy half.Lewis converts it to reduce the level of humiliation significantly.

74 mins.The game is trotting to its conclusion, with England utterly defeated and Australia buzzing about on 70% power.They need very little more to get the job done.71 mins.A virtual training set is run on the left by the Kangaroos.

The England defence is knackered and this Aus attack turns the screw via Munster and Cleary moving the ball,Walsh pops up in the centre channel, finds Addo-Carr on the wing and receives the inside return pass to score,Another conversion from Cleary,68 mins,England’s next set on the Aus 20m is laboured but is making headway mainly though big one-out carries from Trout and Farnworth.

On the final tackle the ball moves left to Lewis who grounds it and has a muted celebration,Muted because he knew the ball had bounced forward off a team-mate into his hands, and the ref knew it too,NO TRY!65 mins,Australia move left via Deardend to Munster, who pops the ball inside to Crighton for a free run in from 10 metres to add his second try of the match under the posts,Cleary converts.

61 mins.A set of six for England in the Australia half is easily contained again.The home attack is static and when it does move the players are too often running into each other’s space.This allows the Kangaroos to simply hold their shape while the maladroit mess plays out in front of them, before walking forward and killing the space and the runners.58 mins.

Australia get a set restart close to the England line, but it’s their turn to ruin a platform with Cleary rushing and flapping a pass forward early in the tackle count.England run through the set from deep in their own half, but all they can do it kick it back to the Kangaroos after gaining 40 metres.55 mins.Mikey Lewis ad Dom Young save their side’s blushes as the winger gathers the short drop-out from his half-back brilliantly.The ball is worked away through the tackles but there’s nothing to worry the Kangaroos at all.

53 mins.Another platform ruined by England as the ball is fizzed about early with the result being a spill to Walsh.The fullback wasted no time in streaking away fifty metres before he’s dragged down.Four tackles later, Grant chips over the top into the in-goal and forces Welsby to knock the ball dead.51 mins.

Early in the tackle count, Jez Litton decides to mix it up a bit and booms a fantastic 40:20 to give England possession deep in Aus territory,48 mins,England finally have a set to run,Williams finds Lewis with a long pass to the left and he looks to be making the Aus defence guess, but he can’t find a pass outside him to keep the move going,The ball comes all the way back to the right wing to Young who is snagged as he tries to gas Addo-Carr on the outside.

45 mins.Crichton receives the ball in the left centre channel and simply canters through a gap by stepping off his left foot.He rambles up to the line as Welsby backs off him and almost shepherds him to a try.That entire defensive set was utter dreck from England.They look knackered and defeated already.

Cleary adds two,43 mins,Walsh decides it’s time to put on a show,He drifts left after receiving a kick before straightening, blitzing through the line and running 70 metres, white players scrambling desperately,The fullback feeds inside to Addo-Carr who has his ankles tapped by Farnworth for a stunning recovery tackle.

A few tackles later the Kangaroos can’t get over the line and England can breathe again,That really would have been game over,The game is back underwayThe score remains close, but the worry for England is their inability to score at all,England have created decent platforms while Lewis and Williams have a been an odd combination of a little too circumspect at times before springing to life and forcing the ball,Patience is the key, as the Kangaroos demonstrated.

The green and gold waited 20 minutes for the English defence to drop off 5-10% before putting their creative and pacy lads to work, with Walsh and Nawaqanitawase prominent.England must score first in the second half, as another six points to Australia will make climbing back into the game resemble the north face of the Eiger.With 13 massive Australians at the bottom who have stolen your gear.Ben Stokes is here watching.Let’s not forget, if it wasn’t for rugby league, he would never have been the catalyst of one of England’s greatest cricket periods.

His dad came over from NZ to coach Workington Town when Ben was a nipper.The hooter sounds to end the half.40 mins.To rub in England’s inability to score, on the next set Walsh is tackled off the ball and Cleary eats up the clock before slotting two points from the tee.38 mins.

Another half-chance for England as Johnston, free up the lft touchline, boots a diagonal kick of his left peg into the in-goal,Lewis and Welsby are chasing but can only watch as the ball rolls agonisingly dead while they are about a metre short of reaching it,36 mins,The ball has been grounded over the line by Australia after Dom Young loses the ball claiming a Munster kick,However, the reason he lost the ball is Addo-Carr ran under him while he was in the air to spim the England winger like a top.

NO TRY!34 mins,Williams takes the ball to the line five metres from the Australia tryline, he dabs a grubber into the in-goal that Walsh reaches first to punch the ball dead,There was a hint of Farnworth being taken out off the ball by Carrigan, but the ref is not interested,From the drop-out under the posts, Knowles knocks on and the Kangaroos can run the ball away to relieve the pressure,31 mins.

Wardle finds space in the left centre channel and is this close to popping a pass to Lewis who had a free run to the line, but Walsh gets a hand in to wobble the ball away.The tackle count is reset to zero, which allows Walmsley and McMeeken to have two strong carries near the 5m line before Lewis moves it right to the backs.However, the momentum is lost and the Kangaroos contain them.28 mins.Every time the Kangaroos move the ball right to Nawaqanitawase it’s nightmare fuel for the English defence.

He is put away again after some nifty hands and has the intelligence to throw a pass inside to Cleary.The home side are very lucky the scrum-half loses his footing as he was about to move the ball on to threaten the scrambling defence.25 mins.There is some possession for England in the Aus half, but again there’s not a huge amount created in the face of the defensive efforts.22 mins.

You have to say that was coming.Territory had been dominated for a good few minutes in the England half, and this combined with Walsh getting himself more involved was causing issues for the tiring home defence.Farnworth appears to be OK after his knock earlier, but Aussie captain Isaah Yeo isn’t; he’s off after failing and head injury assessment.21 mins.From just inside their own half Australia move right through fast hands all the way to Nawaqanitawase who gets outside the defence, offloads inside to Staggs and he feeds Walsh to run in and dive over the line to open the scoring.

Two points added from the tee,20 mins,England’s sets are starting to look more laboured and there’s worse news as Farnworth looks to have picked up a knock in the tackle,Shaun Wane may want to consider some replacements as Australia have sensed the drop off and have upped their intensity,17 mins.

Walsh is growing into the game and he rejoins the line once more in attack.This creates a three on two on the left side, but the fullback gives his pass too much weetabix to send it over Shibasaki’s head and into touch.On the next England set Cotter hammers Lewis to dislodge the ball on tackle three and win possession back for the Kangaroos.15 mins.We have our first glimps of the Cleary, Munster and Walsh axis of attack coming together on the England 20m line