Great game, exciting (nail biting) until the end. We should have earnt a lot of respect from the aussies in that 80 minutes, IMO origin standard.
I feel we lost it in the halves not having patience, 3 times we had sets of 6 starting deep in their half and every time we put a hopeful kick through on 2nd tackle, thats just not good enough, we should have completed and tested for a repeat set. We should have had 15 chances for someone to find the elusive gap and 3 kick chances to test for a try or repeat set, instead we had 3 attempts at a gap and 3 hopeful kicks. The fourth similar chance we had the ball was dropped on the first, can't fault the effort, the aussies looked shot on 60 mins but I feel a few daft plays cost us there.
Hall, Watkins, mcgilvary, whitehead and Hill in particular were immense I thought every forward was brilliant today, in fact everyone. Bateman looked like Hughes for us last season, everytime he got the ball you knew the move was over but he has acquitted himself well all world cup it's not his fault he isn't a centre. Great effort from the boys, very proud of their efforts this morning, the reality is the aussies are still a score better than us.