with next season been the year before the world cup and with the announcements of ireland and france hosting games then i would would like to see a european cup england, ireland, wales, scotland and france with top 2 playing in a final at headingley with places like limerick, avignon and perpignan hosting games, also the benifit of hosting this would be that all eligible players will most probably declare themselves for these nations with it been a year before the world cup and will be good preperation before the world cup. for england next year its looking like 2 games against the exiles which is brilliant hopefully at the kc and langtree park then id also liek to see england take on humberside which would give england another really competitive game.
possible european cup venues
ireland v england @ limerick
wales v scotland @ neath
wales v france @ wrexham
france v scotland @ perpignan
france v ireland @ toulose
france v england @ avignon
wales v ireland @ wrexham
england v scotland @ the shay
england v wales @ salford
ireland v scotland @ limerick
final headingley

Playing teams 'like Wales and France' is what makes international rugby league. With that attitude the FA should refuse to play anyone other than Brazil and Spain while the RFU should organise All Blacks only matches. Who out of the current Wales team would get into a GB side? I can't think of a single player so how would that help the Welsh national team? The Aussies have already said they won't be playing out of season internationals in 2012 so if it's possible I'd like to see us go down under and tour New Zealand and the Pacific islands.

Not saying we shouldn't play Wales, france etc. Just not this time around. The main rpoblem i've got is how early we're starting this seaosn. 3rd of February is stupid. Then adding on a 6 week tour at the end of the season, out internationals will be going straight into pre-season for that. How is that helping us. We'll be burnt out. the intenational calendar should look like this;

2013 - World Cup
2014 - Southern Hemisphere 4N
2015 - Northern Hemisphere 4n
2016 - GB tour

Currntly only Elliot Kear would get in an England squad. but its about building. Dudon, flower, White all have the potential to get in a GB squad.

If we're going down that road then I'd say that big problems are the number of clubs in Super League, the playoffs and the Magic weekend. Drop the top division to 10 sides playing each other home and away and limit the playoffs to the top 6. If the top eight SL sides from the previous year came into the Challenge Cup when there are eight sides left in the competition our top players would be playing a domestic maximum of 22 games a season plus a two or three games in the playoffs.

Too bad it doesn't exist.

I agree with you on that but we've got ALOT of games next year which is why i'm saying give the player a rest instead of plaing Wales or France etc.

personally i'd scrap MM, reduce the play-offs to 6, and have SL teams entering the CC later on.