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.

IMV the WCC like the Magic Weekend is an idea that has outlived its usefulness. Both should be binned.
Whilst we're at it move the CC back to an early season comp with the final in May/June/

First year I'm sure you'll get better coverage but after that it's massively dependent on the results which let's be realistic are only really going to be one of two scenarios

1 - Aussies go full strength and batter us and after 2/3 years of all NRL finals and SF's the coverage will drop like a stone

2 - The Aussies send their reserves and people lose interest in it because of the understrength NRL teams making the competition meaningless.

Those are the two very highly likely outcomes and both will see the competition dead in the water after 3/4 years and in scenario 1 you'll have actually done more harm than good to the SL competition.

Why can't the SL teams perhaps send a team over for the 9's tourney instead?

The Aussies are only interested playing with and amongst themselves, we all know what that makes them.

You improve by testing yourself, by exposing your weaknesses and strengthening them. You don't improve by just playing at an inferior level and hiding from the challenge.

As i said, being scared is the worst reason not to do it.

Being delusional about the harm it'll do our competition is the worst reason to do it.

Yeah playing and beating Brisbane this year really improve Warrington didn't it.

Our top teams have been playing WCC's again for almost 20 years yet our best teams are deemed nowhere near as good as there were 10-15 years ago so shows the pointlessness of your theory.

I agree, good job no-one is suggesting that as a good reason to do it then isnt it.

Yeah, definitely. Good argument mate.

Here we go! The Chuckle Brothers here to entertain you right through to next February!

If believing that makes it easier for you, your welcome to continue to believe it. You would be wrong, but when has that ever stopped you before.

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