Wow. You really are gonna bring up SOO as an example. Hey if we are gonna talk about getting on SOO levels lets go back and look at that concept of England vs the exiles. was you one of them guys who said that can catch on like SOO also.

Just no... It can never get to that level.

Oh and why should Samoa, PNG or Fiji miss out on the 4 nations. Or are you saying that in Australia it should be 4 nations while in England it should be tri nations.

Now let's gets on to the scheduling of a tri nations with teams playing each other twice.

Wouldn't that be a 7 week tournament with just three teams. You really think players, fans and TV will be interested in this.

I'm just waiting for the old ''We're never going to beat the aussies until our players can match the intensity of SOO. Bring back yorkshire vs lancashire''

And of course who can forget ''we're never going to beat the aussies until clubs produce more junior players. To do that we need to do away with relegation so clubs can focus on long term development''

Or if P&r isn't in effect see ''we're never going to beat the aussies until we have less meaningless games, half the teams near the bottom have nothing to play for because theres no P&R. Bring back P&r''.

Round we go.

What about a 6 nations? Eng, Aus, NZ, another European team, and 2 of Samoa/Fiji/Tonga/PNG. Probably not necessary to even have a final, so a 5 week tournament.

What about a new idea, which was actually proposed by Phil Gould to solve the NSW halfback problem.
The RFL set up a kind of halfback academy (like football has in France and Germany), where they take the best emerging halfbacks and improve their skill levels at a younger age, and then work with the super league clubs to move them back into the academy system.

Good idea.

Rather see this over a long 7 week tri nations playing each other twice.