Rob Kitson’s report is in. I’ll sign off and thank you all for joining me. It was a cracking game. Portugal delivered but how will this stodgy show from Australia be met by their fans?
Catch you soon.
Eddie Jones is up next:
We’re still alive. That was the aim of the day. For a young team down to 13 men we showed plenty of courage and fought hard. We’ve done that all season, sometimes the results haven’t been in our favour...well, most of the time.
It’s a real credit to them. You look at the experience of our players out there, we’re averaging less than 20 caps.
I’ve never experienced this before so I really don’t know. We’re anticipating we’ll be in the quarter-finals so we have plans to have three days off and then three days training. We’ll see on Sunday night. Portugall played with plenty of spirit tonight so you never know.
