Kangaroos head coach Kevin Walters has been left surprised at the criticism levelled the way of England and his counterpart Shaun Wane during this autumn\u2019s Ashes Series.<\/p>\n
World champions Australia condemned England to a 3-0 series whitewash defeat on home soil with comfortable victories at Wembley (26-6), Everton FC\u2019s Hill Dickinson Stadium (14-4) and Headingley (30-8).<\/p>\n
With this the first Rugby League Ashes in 22 years, the tourists already had the series sewn up after the first two Tests in the capital and on Merseyside.<\/p>\n
Saturday afternoon\u2019s third Test in Leeds had just four points in it at the break, but Walters\u2019 side scored 18 unanswered second half points to claim a whitewash.<\/p>\n
Kangaroos boss launches Shaun Wane defence as England criticism addressed after Ashes whitewash<\/p>\n
Pressure has been heaped on England boss Wane during this autumn\u2019s series, with plenty of criticism going his team\u2019s way from both sides of the globe.<\/p>\n
But post-match at Headingley, Walters refuted that criticism, saying: \u201cI certainly have been (surprised), and that\u2019s just talking to our players after these games.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of the Australian press were saying it\u2019s been a walk in the park. Well, come over for a walk in the park against the English and see how you go. They were tough games.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe more we play these games, it used to be a part of history, and it just helps both nations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen they (England) get a bit of a roll on, it\u2019s great Test football, very good Test football.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlaying against England, they upset you in many ways. We\u2019ve got to learn from that as a group and get better next time.\u201d<\/p>\n
England have still not beaten Australia since 1995, and now have to gear themselves up for a World Cup taking place Down Under this time next year.<\/p>\n
Walters continued: \u201cWe were never comfortable up in the coaches box throughout the whole game, and the English side never gave us too many opportunities to kick away in the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s been the case, really, for all three games.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s been some chat back in Australia about this English side, but if you speak to our players, they\u2019ve got nothing but respect for them and the way they play their football.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a different style of game here, and it\u2019s great that our boys can experience that now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kangaroos head coach Kevin Walters has been left surprised at the criticism levelled the way of England and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-251840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}