Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup: England cruise to comprehensive win over Ireland

Player of the Match Joe Coyd hailed England's "professional" performance as they overwhelmed Ireland 121-0 at the Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup.

Coyd crossed four times as the side coached by his older brother Tom scored 21 tries in a dominant display to finish the group stages unbeaten.

They will find out their opponents for Sunday's semi-final in Sheffield on Thursday.

"We have been building through the group stages," Joe told BBC Sport.

"We are quite happy with how we played today. Professional is the right word - we set some goals and we think we achieved all of them ahead of the knockout stage.

"Getting to Sheffield was our goal from the get-go. We are happy to get there and will build for the next game.

"We will just go from there and focus on us. We don't know who we will play but whoever we face we will play the England way."

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Group B concludes on Thursday with the United States, Wales and Scotland all still in contention to finish second behind group winners and holders France.

England, ranked second in the world behind the French, had already secured a semi-final spot thanks to easy wins over Australia and Spain.

And they were in devastating form against the Irish in front of another record crowd for the sport of 3,847 at London's Copper Box Arena with James Simpson also scoring four tries plus hat-tricks for Jack Brown and Nathan Collins.

They started with purpose and were in control from the start with Seb Bechara and Coyd scoring early tries - and they were 32-0 up after the first quarter.

Ireland tried to tighten up in the second half, but England were far too strong and coach Coyd was able to give all of his players key game time ahead of the knockout stages.

It also allowed England's Dec Roberts the chance to play against his father Phil, who is part of the Ireland team.

Earlier in the same group, Australia secured a last four spot against holders France after a 52-32 success over Spain.

Both Australia and Spain knew a win would secure a spot in the last four.

The Wheelaroos took an early lead through Peter Arbuckle and never trailed with James Hill scoring four of their nine tries and Diab Karim two, while Brad Grove and Corey Cannane also crossed.

There were three goals apiece for Karim and Bayley McKenna, and Corey's father Craig added two late goals.

Theo Gonzalez and Raphael Mondero scored two tries each for Spain.

"That was the type of game that we actually needed as a collective group," said Australia coach Brett Clark.

"We did use the full roster that we had. That was on purpose to try to give the guys the opportunity to play in these type of games. This is a level up from the last game and each game has been that way.

"These are the games that we need, regardless of the score-line, regardless if we win by 20 points, or we win by two points."

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