Quote: Maccbull_BigBullyBooaza "Scotland have a better back line than England. England have better forwards than anyone in the world (Cameron smith excluded).
Now that sport England have cut the funding we get I think it's time to do away with the Matalan style England shirt and bring back GB. We could win the World Cup IMO.'"
Other than for the obvious idea of building up the game in those areas, I always thought it was a mistake to get separate nations for international games.
However you choose to look at the way the game is run, at its highest level it is basically an English game, and a northern English game at that. Though there are obviously a few "genuine" Welsh and even the odd Irish player, the majority of Welsh, Irish and Scots squads are made up with players on parental or Grandparental qualifications. These are almost always always [northern] English by birth anyway - and in truth go for the other nation for no other reason than they feel they won't get in the England side, but as part of a GB squad they would strengthen it enormously imo.
I've no quibble with a 'home' nations competition, but when playing the big guins of Aus or NZ GB is a stronger set up and imo is the only real way we can compete with them.
Maybe we should look at asking the Aussies to send separate Queensland and NSW teams to the World cup?