Quote: Starman "I think it'd be crazy to get rid of the series because of a bad series this time round. Last year it was only us who got a hiding with the other two games being closely contested IIRC.
With the salary cap as it is, the only way we will get better is to carry on playing these sides and get used to that intensity of a game. Over time you'd like to think our better teams will put up more and more of a contest the more games against these types of opposition they're involved in.
Stick with the series and it may improve in time. To just get rid of it because we've lost a few games seems incredibly narrow-minded, short-term thinking.'"
If the Superleague standard stays the same we can be pretty sure the world club series will always be a whitewash. The RFL needs to speed up the game, first and foremost we need to increase the intensity of the game, for the last 4 or 5 years the game has been "dumbed down' to a time wasting and boring spectacle at times. Our game has turned into a slow arm wrestle, interference at the play the ball, flat attacks, slow scrums, slow field penalties, slow drop outs. The match officials need to speed up the game and in the short term penalise every infringement in the tackle and play the ball, stop the time wasting techniques, I would also run with 2 refs so the attack and defence lines are set quicker.
Then its up to the club coaches to learn from the World Club Series how to improve positional play to create potential try scoring options. On the other hand we can "stick our head in the sand" give up on the idea and just play in our own "super league bubble" for a couple of years ready for the next future deja vu.