I'm not keen on our current badge. I would have much preferred a red lion(s) of some description, which could sometimes become gold if being put on the red cross part of the shirt. The England commonwealth games team logo is a good example.

However, I think the shirt design is fairly insignificant compared to the importance of actually having the national team play some games at home. What other serious sport only has one home game for their national team in a given year? Football? No. Cricket? No. Rugby union? No.

A solitary one-sided game against France is not enough. We need to get either the Aussies or Kiwis over every year.

Indeed.

If you have a VERY wealthy owner (for now) you are probably safe.

Otherwise...goodnight Eileen.

Fair Enough.

It's the number of games and length of the season that is the issue, not the format.

Given most clubs probably earn around 50k pounds profit per home game it wouldn't take a massive increase in International ticket sales, sponsorship and TV deals to suppliment the clubs incomes to lose 2 or 3 home games.

it would surely depend on the quality of international competition ? it's ok playing Oz or NZ but who how many people will want to see England demolish France,Wales,Italy etc etc each year ?