Quote: r a n c i d "Australian League is thriving. Why does Australia need to get behind the international game, because they have a successful League scene? Well then look at why the game is big there, it's in spite of international.
In Australia they focus on making their domestic competition brilliant. It's a loser English mentality to think a strong international game will help the domestic game.
English League fans need to stop trying to compete with sports such as Rugby Union and Football, League is not an international game and won't be for decades at the very very least. Do what the Aussies do, they look to the Yanks to create a thriving sport.
If English League looked towards America and Australian domestic sports, rather than football and Rugby, we'd be in a much better state.'"
Exactly. The problem with trying to copy *anything* is not looking at the starting context. A World Cup and farcically creating home nations teams is an example of trying to mimic something entirely unrealistic. The Wales RU team is the child of Welsh Rugby, not the other way around. I can't think of any other sport where almost the first team of professional players ever created in that country is the national team itself.
Get ideas, but use your brains, and *think* about what is realistic for *our* game instead.
