Welcome back to the Ruck, the journalist's rugby podcast from The Times and the Sunday Times coming to you on Saturday night with the thumping noise of the West Fan Village at Twickenham pumping away in the background.

I'm Alfie Reynolds, Elgin Alderman and Alex Lowe are back alongside me because England, the Red Roses, have won the World Cup on home soil.

We have been speaking about this, Elgin, for years and years.

As we said on our preview of the final, pretty much since the final whistle at Eden Park,

eyes turned towards a home World Cup. And England have done it. They got there.

As we said on the front page of the scrum on Saturday morning, it was blooming time that England

won this World Cup and they've

finally banished the Houdoo. They've lost six World Cup finals in total and this all-conquering

Red Rose's team have finally won it again. The first time England have won it since 2014.

Now 33 matches unbeaten extending their world record as well. It was what they needed to do.

And they did bloom today, didn't they? It was their best performance of the World Cup so far.

I felt the semi-final they were a bit edgy, a bit clunky, not quite a slick today.

Just I felt every area of the game, were dominant um Ellie killed Dunn's try

after I guess a slightly rocky start to me just infused them with the belief that they needed

and then the pack went to work strategy and their execution was outstanding and it always felt

to me like they were out of arms reach of Canada. Canada came

close so they'd scored when they were banging on the door instead of knocking on.

It had been closer and England would have been out to 14.

But even then I just felt they dominated so many areas.

There really wasn't a window for Canada to get back and take the win. It was that very brief moment, wasn't it, Alex, that you mentioned there, when Hanna Boteman was still in the Simbing, Canada had scored one try, and you were thinking if they could get another score and convert it, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, really, completely against the tide, it would have been a one-score game, but they weren't able to do that. What was your guys feeling on the match?

My immediate thought was that from a Canada point of view, and we've spoken about them this World Cup, and I don't mean this in a patronising way, but I think they've done brilliantly to get to this point and get to the final, and some of the rugby they've played has been sensational. but my gut feeling was this was a lesson for them that your margin for error against the red roses is tiny.

And with those mistakes, the kind of knock on, the set piece didn't function,

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