They celebrated in true Aussie style – with a few dressing room beers and a rousing rendition of John Williamson’s Among the Gum Trees.

Beer was flung around the jubilant away sheds inside the $1.6 billion Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpool as players clapped and sang the iconic song blaring from Josh Addo-Carr’s ghetto blaster.

It was superstar fullback Reece Walsh who called his players together for the sing-a-long huddle after Australia’s 14-4 win.

And it wasn’t just the winning players – every person in the entire squad joined in was in the circle. This wasn’t a team win, this was squad triumph.

Even your humble columnist somehow found himself in the circle for a sing-along, as was ARL Commission chairman Peter V’landys and Immortal Andrew Johns with players yelling: “Where’s the eighth? (Immortal) … where’s the eighth?”

Players also sang a Kangaroos victory song which has been sung in England for more than 40 years.

Head coach Kevin Walters and game captain Harry Grant gave emotional victory speeches while Cam Munster handed V’landys and NRL chief executive Andrew Abdo a beer each.

This is what rugby league is all about.

And the memorable moment came after a dramatic game which included three sin bins, four melees, brutal defence and a wild crowd baying for blood.

The Kangaroos scored two tries in quick succession midway through the second half to record a fierce 10-point win before a sold-out crowd of 52,106 at the new home of Everton FC.

Victory gives Australia an unbeatable 2-0 series lead with the third Test in Leeds now a dead-rubber.

Inspired by the brilliance of Munster, Australia was resilient, tough and gritty to secure victory over a pumped-up English side spurred on by the local, vocal crowd.

A wonderful scramble defensive effort was the cornerstone of Australia’s win with the Kangaroos conceding just one try in the opening two Tests.

“This was an old-style Test match,” said Kangaroos coach Kevin Walters. “A lot of our guys haven’t experienced that but now they have – it’s one to put away in their book.

“I had a lot of confidence in our defence. We turned over a fair bit of ball in that first half but defence wins big games. I just love winning, it feels great.”

Munster was delighted at the win but dirty at his side’s error rate.

“We had to be defensively great because we were pretty pathetic with the ball in hand,” he said.

“England came out bashed us but we turned up for each other. It was definitely a team effort and we can play a lot better. Today the England crowd really got behind them and could feel the build-up.”

There were multiple flare-ups with Tino Fa’asuamaleaui and Reece Walsh being sin-binned for Australia and Dom Young being banished for England.

Munster and Hudson Young were Australia’s second half try scorers after the scores were locked 4-all at halftime.

Australian players embraced in elation at fulltime, relieved yet excited to have retained the Ashes.

It was a wild-west start with a melee breaking out between hookers Harry and Jez Litten and then splitting into six separate groups.

Every player on the field was involved with the fired-up crowd wanting blood before Fa’asuamaleaui and Young were marched for ten minutes. It flared up again three minutes later with charged-up players going at it once again.

A third scuffle erupted midway through the second half when Walsh collided with Young, who had already dropped the ball.

But Walsh had made contact with Young mid-air and was sin-binned with fans giving it a red-hot farewell from the field.

“When you play a Test you know there will be a fair bit of emotion,” said Grant. “We probably got caught up in it a little bit.”

A physical England ripped in early, determined to cast aside a meek performance in London. This was a Pommy side we haven’t seen in years.

The first half was loud, willing and brutal – international rugby league had come alive.

It took 50 minutes for the first try when Munster did what Munster does. He dummied, held up a pass, fended and slid over amid claims of obstruction. He may not have scored a more important try.

And when Hudson Young scored four minutes later after collecting a rebound from Nathan Cleary bomb and suddenly the Aussies had skipped out to a 14-4 lead, which was the fulltime score.