To be held in Australia in 2014 and expnded to six teams in 2015. www.canberratimes.com.au/rugby-l ... 2edhw.html The three from UK/France could be CC winners, GF winners and league leaders, perhaps (should they all be different of course)?

To be held in Australia in 2014 and expnded to six teams in 2015. www.canberratimes.com.au/rugby-l ... 2edhw.html The three from UK/France could be CC winners, GF winners and league leaders, perhaps (should they all be different of course)?

Excellent news.

More spin and empty rhetoric from GH .

The 3 teams from Superleague should be GF winners, GF Runners Up and highest seeded losing semi finalist in the play offs. The same selection process should be used for the NRL also.

I hate to say it but im with Billy Eve on this one.The aussies havnt even shown interest in staging the current 1 game format, so to think they would make room for an expanded competition running in both the UK and over there is a bit jumping the gun.

As WE says its all from the mouth of GH who has spun us his dream on several occasions in the past few years but the article is not backed up by anyone influential in the NRL so its still pie in the sky.

Lets get the stand alone game on an alternate basis first and IF we can compete, then build from there.do we really need another 1997 debacle anyway?

So that means no elite international competition in the autumn of 2015 then, presumably?

Unless you're going to be asking England, Australia and New Zealand to pick sides without players from their top clubs?

Having the LLS winners and CC winners should be a step forward to adding value to those competitions. If a team wins more than one of those, then the spot should just drop to the next best team in the post-season rankings.

Anything that brings money into the game must be welcomed, hopefully the Aussies are up for it.

With regards qualification, to give greater improtance to the regular season, shouldn't the Grand Final Winners, then the two highest placed finishers of the regular season get the nod?

For me it should be the GF winners then the top 2 in the league after that.

There is very little detail in the articles I've seen, so how it will fit into the season. Also I don't get the principle of playing it against the international fixtures? Surely with the best players playing in the internationals, the SL teams are going to be even weaker against the NRL sides.

Will Wigan be the same without Tomkins, Saints without Roby etc...

It will be a test of the squad depth of the top teams which will favour the higher capped league.

It's good that they are trying to get something in place though and we need it to compete with RU in this country as RU in this country thrives of it's internationals.

Early in the season I guess?

1 v 1
2 v 2
3 v 3

Don't see the point in that tbh.

1 sl v 2 nrl
1 nrl v 2 sl

Winners play in final?

From reading that I don't think he meant playing it at the end of the season. What he meant was if the 4 nations is played in England at the end of the year then the WCC would then be in Australia at the beginning of the next season and visa versa. So no clash with Internationals.

But for once I agree with Mr Eve......it's not going to happen, at least not one that involves teams playing more than one game.

NRL teams barely want to play one game as it is, 2 or 3 has no chance. Also how would SL teams fit in more games? They already have to squeeze in one regular season game midweek later in the year, if they had to play 2/3 games in Oz coupled with travelling over at least a week in advance you could be looking at having to make up 3, 4 or even 5 games.

Also the 1st time a 3rd place team won it people would be on here complaining and saying it's ''ridiculous'' and ''embarrassing the sport'' that a team who didn't win their GF and possibly didn't even reach their GF could be called the World Champs. Enough are already critical of Leeds doing because they finished 5th but at least they won their GF. What if the 3rd place team who crashed out of the playoffs in Week 2 after 2 straight losses managed to win the thing.

Never going to happen.
Its been too hard to schedule SOO on stand alone weeks and squeeze Internationals into a date where its not a furnace when played Down under.
The English Clubs will see a big benefit in the idea, I can not see the Australian Clubs feeling the same way.

In many ways Australian fans do not come to life until the NRL starts and they shut down just as quick once the Grand Final is played and their minds move on to other Summer Sports.