Quote: Starbug "But similarily they were all apart from 1 , completely meaningless matches , that is the potential problem , generally RL fans dont watch meaningless matches'"
OK, so I have a solution, which I hope that Gary Hetherington, the RFL and NRL pick up:
Have two competitions at stake:
(i) the World Club Champion, which is between the two grand final winners.
(ii) the World Competition champion, which is between SL and NRL, based on the best of the three contests.
You could have a SL club as world champions because they win the contest between the two grand finalists, but the NRL clubs win the other two games, so the NRL wins the Championship contest, or vice versa.