By Dave Woods BBC Sport in Sydney

Oh, what a night!

Great Britain won in Australia for the first time in 14 years

Sorry to be smug, but to be in Sydney to watch Great Britain beat the Aussies was just the most fantastic feeling.

Tommy Raudonikis, Phil Gould, Terry Hill, Dame Edna, your boys took one hell of a beating.

That sound of munching and moaning you can hear is of words being eaten. One or two of them even managed a begrudged compliment.

Phil Gould in the Sydney Morning Herald: "They played with great passion and resolve and thoroughly deserved their success. Well done, Lads."

Thanks, Phil, we'll pass the message on.

The GB training camp looked like a set from MASH after a visit from an over-enthusiastic make up lady on Monday morning.

Sean Long, Lee Gilmour and Stuart Fielden were amongst the most battle scarred. And Jamie Peacock declined an invitation to do a radio interview sitting down because "it would take me too long to stand back up again".

It's a clich� and every rugby league fans knows it anyway, but it's a tough old sport we watch. Rugby league players must be amongst the toughest sportsmen in the world.

Not so the rugby league press. We celebrated the GB victory by heading off to Watson's Bay to visit the famous Doyle's Restaurant.

The British resort is still getting liberally mentioned in Sydney nearly a week after Leon Pryce's infamous "give me Blackpool beach over Bondi beach" comments

Unfortunately, we picked the wildest, windiest day to make the half-hour boat trip across the mouth of the harbour.

And the water taxi we took was the aquatic version of a dodgy un-MOT'd cowboy cab you sometimes find yourself in the back of after a big night out in town.

For 20 minutes we bobbed up and down on waves big enough to make Ellen McArthur cry. We laughed, we wept, we threw up, we dropped onto our knees clutching St Christophers and begged for deliverance.

And just as dry land loomed large again, the harbour police pulled us over and reprimanded the taxi driver for taking us out in an un-sea-worthy vessel. We walked home.

Former England football captain Terry Butcher joined us for lunch to raise a glass in the name of British Rugby League.

Terry's an old mate of a couple of us from his days working with Radio Five Live.

He's currently the coach of FC Sydney and loving the lifestyle on offer down under, even if he is under a bit of pressure on the football front.

It's been an eye-opener for him though, to work in an environment where it is football scrapping for every bit of publicity it can get whilst Rugby League basks in glow of the headline headlights.

By the way, I don't know if the Blackpool tourist board is making the most of it, but the seaside resort is still getting liberally mentioned in Sydney nearly a week after Leon Pryce's infamous "give me Blackpool beach over Bondi beach" comments on this website.

Brian Noble was inspired in wearing a "kiss me quick" t-shirt in the days after the remark.

The British press have been scratching their heads over what Leon might be invited to say this week.