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Stupid idea, Mr Wood would have been better spending his time sorting out domestic issues than arranging ' Gimmick ' games

Does seem a strange one. Who would have predicted this?

If they played it in my back yard I would draw the curtains.

the amount of money it will raise will be fantastic and may help to promote the rl product more. If they beat the wallabies then maybe people will start to think this is the better more skilful game. i think its an idea that could be more beneficial to rl than ru. People need to stop being so narrow minded.

After watching a terrific Rugby League World Cup tournament what else could I possibly want than to watch some Rugby Union? If this isn't the most cretinous RL strategy I don't know what is. Love how the London Broncos are carted out as a possible reason for hosting this hare-brained scheme?

Daft as a brush Nigel Wood.

You're joking, right?

What is narrow minded about not wanting to waste a valuable opportunity to promote the sport of rugby league by hosting an international rugby league fixture at Wembley as we have done twice now with increasing success? That's right: there's nothing narrow minded about it at all.

If this is a genuine report then it makes Nigel Wood look a bigger plonker than he was starting to look already and I'm starting to have sympathy with Leneghan and his cronies.

How strange and I don't see it capturing enough interest (certainly within league) to get anywhere near a full house but I'd loved to be proved wrong and it make us a fortune.

I'd play a quarter of league, a quarter of union, a quarter of netball and a quarter of lacrosse if I thought we were going to make some much needed cash out of it!!

So a GB team put together in the middle of pre season ( quite possibly without the NRL players ) playing against a Wallabies team ( that I am fairly confident are more familiar with RL than the other way round ) at the end of a tour, more chance of a union win than a league one

A bore fest of panalties and drop goals

its an event in the capital that will draw interest as a day out. And the money thats on offer is silly!! you couldn't say no to it and i doubt any player will say no to earning an extra 35k for a one off match. Only problems will be the NRL based players if they will be allowed to play and the fact every union team plays touch which is league with out tackling anyway.

Sounds like bs to me. The guy who wrote the article is one of the biggest slaters of the RLWC, so it's probably just a poor attempt at trolling. Where 92k fans at Wembley (it can't hold that many for a start) are going to come from is beyond me, not to mention it's England rather than GB.

All this would do is put Burgess x3, Tomkins, Widdop etc. in the RFU shop window from the post WC windfall.

Reunification?

It will be league rules in one half and Union rules in the other half and I predict league to win their half and union to win their half. Therefore proving nothing.

Sounds completely made up tosh to me. A very poor article that I would have been ashamed to put my name to.
Where has the extra 2k capacity appeared from?
Why would the league half of the game be played to NRL rules?
If the original idea was to play in Australia why the move to Wembley?
Wigan didn't play Bath in a hybrid game.

Difficult to take it seriously.