Absolutely brilliant, anyone who can say that it was not an exiting final has got to be joking - World wide competition (the teams of 80 countries were involved in the qualifying tournanments), the game went to extra time and the final seconds of that extra time.

The Australians played well, their pack were blown before half-time, but hell's teeth they hung on and made a game of it.

Ard Mhacha may go on about Wilkinson's kicking - but as someone else has said - He put in some mighty tackles.

Some rather odd decisions by the Ref regarding his interpretation of "crossing" - I actually thought you had to cross, also with the scrum collapsing - situation England scrum 5m short of the Aussie line, English pack completely dominating, scrum collapses and the penalty gets awarded against England????.

But for all that a fantastic match - WELL DONE ENGLAND.