Anyone got any idea how this game is going off scratch with the bookies? NZ look far superior on paper.

England
Lomax
McGillvary
Gildart
Connor
Makinson
Tomkins
Williams
Graham
Hodgson
G Burgess
Whitehead
Bateman
O'Loughlin

Hill
Clark
Thompson
T Burgess

New Zealand
Watene-Zelezniak
Maumalo
Marsters
Manu
Rapana
Johnson
Nikorima
J Bromwich
Smith
Waerea-Hargreaves
Proctor
Liu
Fisher-Harris

K Bromwich
Ah Mau
Taupau
Blair

They are about evens, same with PNG v England Knights, should be two great games.

1 - 7 is not even, super league is no preparation for trying to undo Procter and manu when England go left.

I'm financially involved with nz winning comfortably but happy to be proven wrong

Gona be fackin frozen watching it. Brrrr

Great start for England. Keeping the ball alive well. New Zealand look off the pace early on.

They have upped it now.

This game needs some atmosphere though. Doesn't sound like a test match.

A good start from England, definitely needs a bit of electricity to up the atmosphere. Bateman has been very good in the collision in defence so far.

Notice how the NZ players and English nrl players are playing the ball correctly even though they don't have to. It's really not that difficult to get players to play to the rules when they are told to do so.

Spoke too soon about Bateman

Josh Hodgson is having a shocker.

England's last set plays are terribe

He's not a very good player in general, bizarrely overrated by Australians