Genuine Ashes tours have been impossible since the English and Australian seasons started running concurrently in 1996. You can't have GB or Australia touring the other during their season and playing clubs as well as three tests anymore, so you don't get the same interest. The 1997 "Super League" series wasn't a patch on the tours that had gone before, and by 2003 everyone knew it was finished. The current set up with games against both Australia and New Zealand is a better option now the classic tours can't be recreated in the way they used to be.

I do think series like the Tri/Four Nations should be contested by GB rather than England though. The GB team is a bigger part of RL heritage. Have a European Nations tournament with Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France and a young England team run separately with games at smaller grounds. If the big tournament is in this country have double/triple headers with those games as warm ups for the main event - eg a Saturday at Wembley featuring Wales V Ireland at noon, England V Scotland at 2.30pm and GB V Australia at 5pm. Make the England team and u23s or brand them as "England A" or whatever if you like. Just make it clear that those teams are all development sides and the ultimate aim of all players from the individual home nations sides is to make it into the Great Britain test team.

Play the other European Nations games at realistic (small RL heartland) venues, and obviously keep them up here in the years when the test side are down under.

In my opinion that's the best way to go.

What stadium has a soul?

Huddersfield, Wigan and Hull FCs ground only.

I know they've just had an origin game but we can't go all the way to Mexico for an Great Britain-Australia test match. (Those are good shouts though really)

We sold 35000 tickets for a criminally undermarketed game on a Sunday away from the heartlands this weekend just gone. We could sell 55000, maybe even double that, up North easily if it were promoted properly.

Getting away from the stadium on foot was an absolute disgrace on Sunday. It took us the best part of an hour to get back the half mile or so to the pubs in Stratford town centre.

We've been both years but it's an absolute pain in the backside of a ground to get to and then get away from. As die hard league fans I'd probably do battle again should we go there in the future but I'd prefer them to move it to Arsenals stadium (which I've been to a few times and found the ground to be superb) or maybe to the New White Hart Lane when that's finished (although I don't know a great deal about the access round there).

If we were to have an Ashes series I'd go-

Game One-Emirates Stadium
Game Two-St James Park
Game Three-Etihad Stadium

Maybe the RFL could plan on getting tickets on sale more then Six months in advance in future though.