Quote: loiner81 "Are all those calling for the WCS to be scrapped, the same ones who complain that we don't play the French enough? You know the ones, they regularly post comments like "how are the French ever meant to become competitive if we never play them...."'"
The French need help to make their National team stronger.
Although they were competitive (at times) 25-30 years ago, currently they are mils behind the English and would struggle against the south sea island teams.
For the World Club thing to work better it needs to be a mini competition and not just 3 "random" fixtures.
Whether there is space to fit this in the RL calendar, I don't know and it will be the Aussies who decide if these fixtures are important enough to make changes to their schedule/ season.
The thing made more sense when it as GF winner against GF winner and the extra game now are just glorified friendlies and a such there will always be a question mark as to their importance.
This season, we are unlucky with how poor the form of Saints and Leeds has been leading up to the fixtures although Leeds have been very unlucky with injuries and Wigan losing Micky Mac was a cruel blow.
Of course we should continue with the games but, perhaps the English clubs need to be better prepared.
Both Aussie clubs (especially as their season hasn't yet started) have looked in a different league and whilst it's disappointing for our boys to get easily beaten, it's great to se the power and strength and organisation of our Aussie cousins.
