In a nutshell, It's about Aus and NZ withdrawing from the world cup, presumably due to “covid” aka the flu.
But a guy calling himself “sadfish” only wants the world cup to be discussed, not the latter so the discussion dried up and they skipped to discussing ANZAC..
Make of that what you will.

And that will increase interest as well

The Aussie won't turn up next year either and neither will the Kiwis as the Kiwis do what the Aussies tell them to do.

Well, history has shown that the Aussies have turned up overseas 31 times over the past 10 years, but UK teams have turned up 20 times.

Of course in 2000 NZ didn't turn up.

The only thing between NZ RL and extinction is a shed load of volunteers and the NRL.........same sort of thing with English Rugby League....SKY tell them to jump and they ask "how high"