England rugby league coach Shaun Wane reflecting on the Test series victory against Tonga

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00:00 the camp as well?

00:02 Unbelievable, unbelievably proud of what we've done, how we've done it.

00:08 Not, you know, we've had a few players pull out, so we couldn't turn into the strongest

00:14 squad, so could they.

00:16 But you look at Mikey and Harry, they're number four and five, well they were, not anymore.

00:22 You know, but you've got Johnny and George and Lewis, so you look at how they've behaved

00:28 in the last three, well two tests for Mikey and three for Harry, I think they've been

00:32 outstanding, they've done really good things and they'll go from strength to strength.

00:36 You'll probably get asked about Harry a lot, but is he now nailed his case to be George's

00:41 partner for the foreseeable future?

00:42 No, no he's not, he's really good, but he's obviously got things he needs to improve on,

00:49 but I'm really happy with what he's done, but I wouldn't say he's nailed his case for

00:53 automatic half-back.

00:55 What impressed you most about his performance today?

00:58 I thought we stuck to our task, well you know they had spells in that first half, they had

01:03 about five or six sets on our line, and they can play, they're athletic, they're big, and

01:07 they're really, great competition, the majority of them, and they tested us, but I thought

01:12 the desire to defend and the detail in what we did was absolutely outstanding.

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