Seems to work really well over here - promotes a charity (that looks after ex-pros fallen on hard times), excuse to sell more shirts, press stories about the old fellas in the lead up to the game, plus each year they fix the draw so many matches are revisiting famous games from the past (eg this year they played St George vs Wests 50 years after the notorious '63 grand final, even moved the game to the SCG)

Sounds like such a great concept that it's almost inevitable the RFL would never go near it

We should've had something like this ages ago. I fully agree with JtL.

ok so presuming you avoid your obvious rival what fixtures would you have and what signidicance does the clash have?

From recent past my team could go with

HKR v Cas (1986 Wembley)
HKR v Widnes (1964 &1981 Wembley, NL1 Final (promotion to SL) 2006)

Wigan have had a heritage game for the past few seasons.
The RFL/SL have been fully aware of it.
Last year it was the Bradford game at the DW.

Trying to stay away from games with our bigger rivals Wigan, Saints and Bradford, and without giving it a massive amount of thought, for Leeds;

Leeds v Wakey 68' Watersplash Cup Final
Leeds V London 99' Challenge Cup Final (More because I think London will struggle for significant events)

There will be plenty more, but without doing a bit of research, they were the first I could think of avoiding our main rivals. I'm pretty sure the first time Leeds won the Championship was against Warrington - I may be wrong, and in fairness, Leeds v Wire is an attractive game anyway.

Its a great idea - personally I would have it on the SL round closest to 29 August - although this is usually Challenge Cup Final.

Maybe the week before Challenge Cup Final as a nice lead in.

Did RL exist in the UK before SL? You would never know would you? Good work on keeping your clubs heritage alive Sadfish

How about Leigh v Leeds at Wembly? , commemmorate 1971 ?

There most certainly should be some special rounds for marketing the game. SL has just been going through the motions since licensing began.

No doubt you'll get people moan that they can't afford all of the shirts, despite the fact that no one is bloody forcing them to buy them!

Heritage ? , the sport only started 18 years ago

York are actually having a heritage game this season, with a special kit to go with it too.

It looks ace.