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Women's RL World Cup: Australia earn comprehensive win over England - as it happened

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Jason Saab

I don't think England managed to come within five metres of Australia's line more than four times. The Aussie girls were quite simply relentless.

Malcolm, Sydney

13 games played at the tournament so far, (men’s and women’s) Only 2 have been competitive. The other 11, one sided blow outs.

Matt

Embarrassing for RL is this, England thought they were so good after thrashing Wales this is a different level Australia have scored more than a point a minute.

Gordon, Holmfirth

Ruan Sims
Former Australia prop on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

Jocelyn Kelleher has been outstanding. That was a beautiful chip and chase. The number of Jillaroos jerseys in the frame when somebody makes a break, that's the big difference. I'm watching Tamika Upton get back onside, then she pushes up when Jocelyn Kelleher gathers her own little kick, and it's a lovely finish by Abbi Church.

Ruan Sims
Former Australia prop on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

I have a real issue here because Jocelyn Kelleher's coming round over the try-line to improve the position for the kick, and Amelia Brown just turns her back on her. She's not even in the in-goal area. That attitude to those sorts of things really needs to be fixed up. I'm sure Stuart Barrow will have a lot to say about that.

Along with heritage player Hope Millard, Stuart Barrow's new-look squad contains centre Connie Boyd, who crossed for a hat-trick on her debut.

They also have Super League's Woman of Steel Jenna Foubister, 19, and her highly-rated Wigan team-mate Isabel Rowe, who kicked nine conversions alongside a couple of tries to record the highest points tally (26) in a single game by a female England player at a World Cup.

Barrow, who has previously called Rowe and Foubister's partnership in the halves "telepathic" also has Huddersfield Giants winger Amelia Brown among his new group.

The 22-year-old - a dog groomer by trade - scored two tries against Wales, the second of which went viral on social media after she ran 107 metres to score it.

"My phone's been popping off, so it just feels good," Brown said.

"Some of my family don't really understand social media. So they're like: What does this mean? What does that mean? But they're all really happy for me and really proud of me."

Barrow added: "You don't get many international tries that look like that, so to do that on your World Cup debut is outstanding.

"We want moments like that in our sport and especially the women's game because the one million views [it has had] puts us on the map and hopefully that gets people interested back home in our sport.

"So anything like that is amazing. I know that Amelia's been sharing a room with Jasmin Strange all week - who's a social media queen - so she's actually outdone Jasmin this time."

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