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| This idea is good but the timing is important. If it is to be a fair contest, and to be meaningful, it must be held at the end of the regular season. To be precise, it must be held two weeks after the respective grand finals (which need to be coordinated and held on the same weekend in their respective continents). Only then will it be considered an event that culminates the club seasons, a sort of "icing on the cake."
Holding it preseason is a kind of lowballing of the event. It is turning it into a kind of "taster" for the regular season, not a serious contest.
Moreover the teams are rarely the same in the new season so it is not a real reflection of each team's actual strength based on the previous season's results. Only end of season makes it a true reflection of the teams that placed 1-3.
End of season can be fitted into an international schedule. Let us say we coordinate the respective competitions' schedules so that the grand finals are on the last weekend in September. The World Series will then be on the second weekend in October, so as to give the teams time to recuperate, and to give one nations' teams time to arrive in the other country with more than a week to get over jet lag and acclimatise.
Then the internationals between nations can be started in the 3rd weekend of October and finish in mid November (in the case of the Four Nations) or at the end of November (in the case of the World Cup).
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| Quote: RLBandit "We need this. My only concern is that we go into it half baked, in a kind of 'start small and see if we can improve it' way, which risks a dissappointing start and then two opposing camps from day one
That's my issue with this.
Is it me, or do we just not have ANYONE within the RFL who understands what needs to be done to create an event?! I mean, don't get me wrong, I've seen some good signage, promotional material, etc. at games (Magic Weekend, Challenge Cup, Grand Final, etc) but they don't seem to understand what to do to make an event (other than a final) interesting.
Internationals, the Challenge Cup semi finals and the World Club Challenge should be A LOT bigger than they are, but because they are so short-sighted in their approach to the planning, they are just above average events at best. Not must see. It's frustrating because I see what they're doing with the RLWC and think that's near the level of build up they should have for every international series, and every WCC.
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| Quote: William Eve "Perhaps it needs to be given the go ahead first before any fine print is resolved? '"
Perhaps. Or perhaps not. Or maybe somewhere between the two. Who knows .. so many questions. Please don't let it keep you awake at night, though. Concentrate on trying to troll better. There's a million times more chance of an expanded WCC than you ever posting anything a chimp couldn't.
Quote: William Eve "Glad it's all been sorted and given the... err... err... go ahead.'"
You need to get some therapy for that stammer, too.
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| Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "There's a million times more chance of an expanded WCC than you ever posting anything a chimp couldn't.'"
Chimps are more intelligent than Pavlov's Dog. Is that you salivating at GH's latest unsubstantiated [i"world series/expanded wcc gets go ahead"[/i headline?
Thought so.
How's the SL attendances going this year? ![Smile icon_smile.gif](images/smilies//icon_smile.gif)
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| Quote: William Eve "Chimps are more intelligent than Pavlov's Dog. Is that you salivating at GH's latest unsubstantiated [i"world series/expanded wcc gets go ahead"[/i headline?
Thought so.
How's the SL attendances going this year?
Wow, you really hate rugby league don't you?!
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| Quote: William Eve "Chimps are more intelligent than Pavlov's Dog. Is that you salivating at GH's latest unsubstantiated [i"world series/expanded wcc gets go ahead"[/i headline?
Thought so.
How's the SL attendances going this year?
As well as running Leeds Rhinos, Leeds Carnegie, The RFL and ,according to some Bradford fans, now Leeds-Bradford Airport, Hetherington is now also editor of the Express?
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