If there wasn't going to be a WCC, how about a 'Charity Shield' type game. It could be taken on the road to promote the game

For which charity, Salford Reds or Bradford Bulls?

We've tried the top 3 recently and it flopped with comfortable 3-0 wins for the Aussies. You want to add in our 4th placed team for a beating too.

The Aussies would have little to no interest in an event that lasted 3/4 weekends. They don't need it in their schedule.

I know people are desperate for some sort of competition vs NRL teams but there just isn't one that'll work or benefit SL.

No, its being scared.

Real things can be scary.

How is our comp ever going to get up to scratch when we are too scared to test it?

And we wonder why we struggle to market the game, "super league, not good enough to bother playing the best".

Also dont we have a series of high profile games between the top clubs and the bottom ones? In fact we have a competition, broadcast on national television, where next year Leeds could end up playing an amateur side. How does it end? about 80k watch at Wembley and millions on the BBC.

With each passing season it's becoming harder to see what the CC does to enhance the game in this country. An expanded top 4 vs top 4 WCC, with the final at Wembley in the summer is way more appealing to me

Exactly.

No we haven’t w have tried three seperate matches on different days with two of them meaning nothing. That isn’t what I suggested at all.

The top 4 Aussie teams aren't going to come over here for nearly a month mid-season so the idea is dead in the water right there. You could scrap the CC to fit it into our schedule, how do you fit it into the NRL who definitely don't want a longer season?

What are the other 8 SL and 12 NRL going to do exactly? Just sit around and watch

You get the competition up to scratch by focusing on it, not playing the Aussies and hoping it has some knock on effect.

If the Aussies took it seriously with strongest teams they'd comfortably win and all you'll have achieved is making our competition and top teams look poor and inferior on a larger scale.....that'll do way more harm than good for SL. If the Aussies send 2nd string teams then people will see through it as meaningless.

It's moving the deckchairs on the Titanic. You only have to see the first couple of pages on here where people aren't even that bothered if we play the WCC match, also see some views from Warrington fans who whilst they thought it was ok when they beat Brisbane are now wishing they hadn't bothered because how there season went. It's starting to be viewed as a inconvenient event that messes up your season and that just playing 1 game, will be worst playing more.

Exactly, and nobody is arguing we continue with that. The suggestion is a completely different competition with better coverage.