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| Quote RL13="RL13"The thing is, in soccer you have a major tournament every two years. I know the Fifa World Cup is the big prize, but European Championships (and other continent based competitions) are still a big deal for internationals.
On that basis, since we don't have a Euros so to speak - the World Cup is all we have, it would be nice to shave a year off, to have it more a little more regularly. I think in our sport the players deserve to be apart of something like this more often, as there is bugger all else.'"
But we do have a Euro, unfortunatly they arent any good
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| Quote Pinkerton="Pinkerton"We should be playing out of Elland Road, Etihad, Bramall Lane, Villa Park, Wembley, Old Trafford etc. '"
For the love of god not elland road.
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| Quote Starbug="Starbug"Nope, daft idea, a reasonably successful tournament ( although a few issues ) and everybody starts to get giddy, we have now found a slot in the calender that doesnt clash with anything else, so lets sit down asses what worked, what didnt, what can be improved and most importantly try to improve next time both off and on the pitch'"
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| Ever four at a minimum... I would prefer five yeas between events.
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| Quote Pinkerton="Pinkerton"Well maybe we should start building the Four Nations up a bit more then. No disrespect, but we shouldn't be playing England internationals in Leigh, Salford, Warrington etc anymore. We should be playing out of Elland Road, Etihad, Bramall Lane, Villa Park, Wembley, Old Trafford etc. and build up the promotion of the event like we did with the WC. It's also important we stay on the BBC, maybe SSN will ignore us, but it's worth it to get to more viewers and importantly, more sponsors.
I read on twitter that from the 4 Nations 2014 up until RLWC 2017, all internationals will be on Premier Sports, with just the England games on BBC. I really hope that isn't the case, because we need the whole of the WC on BBC and not just England games and we can't afford to hide the International game away on PS.'"
Where we play the games is defined by the expected quality of the opposition and the competitiveness of the match, improve the quality of the NH nations and bigger venues will be required and used
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| Quote Old Blighty="Old Blighty"Ever four at a minimum... I would prefer five yeas between events.'"
Five would then put us in conflict with other major events, we now have our own ' slot ' in the calender, now it just requires hard work and investement
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| Quote Starbug="Starbug"Five would then put us in conflict with other major events, we now have our own ' slot ' in the calender, now it just requires hard work and investement'"
We've got our own slot and a set international rugby league schedule for the first time in what must be a long time. Ok it's only one event so far but that's a step forward compared to having none.
Our next step should be to organise other events (tours, 4/5/6 nations etc) to be included in a regular international schedule.
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| Quote Him="Him":CLAP:
We've got our own slot and a set international rugby league schedule for the first time in what must be a long time. Ok it's only one event so far but that's a step forward compared to having none.
Our next step should be to organise other events (tours, 4/5/6 nations etc) to be included in a regular international schedule.'"
Yes that is the next step, providing a concerted but sensible effort is made to develop the various ' minor ' nations that have taken part in this WC, if we now see the Italian,USA and various South Sea Island nations revert back to putting out teams of amatuers, then what was the point of having artificially strengthened teams over here
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| One of the reason's this WC has been so successful is because there hasn't been one over here for so long. The international game becomes stale when it's the same events over and over.
People are getting carried away with this tournament's success and think all of a sudden mid season European 6 Nation tournaments and more frequent WCs will just take off, when in reality it won't. We have 3 nations that are head and shoulders above any other team and it is very unlikely that any of the others are going to catch up any time soon.
The elite teams need a settled international calendar featuring Tours, 4N and World Cups, whilst also increasing the number of emerging nations fixtures. Personally I would look at working on a five year cycle with a the 5th being a one year break from international tournaments, replaced with an extended World Club competition, though I appreciate that would be unpopular with a lot of people.
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| WC every 4 years
Tri Nations in between...with a mini home nations qualifying event.
Wales, Scotland Ireland and France battle it out for the right to play England....winner of that enters the tri-nations v AUS and NZ.
Or have a combined Celtic nations team and a combined Pacific Islands team enter against Eng, Aus and NZ....5 team mini tournament.
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| Quote WARRIORCRAIG="WARRIORCRAIG"One of the reason's this WC has been so successful is because there hasn't been one over here for so long. The international game becomes stale when it's the same events over and over. <snip>'"
Seen a lot of posters say something along these lines. How do you explain the sell out crowds for the Six Nations every year?
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| Quote RLBandit="RLBandit"Seen a lot of posters say something along these lines. How do you explain the sell out crowds for the Six Nations every year?'"
The same reason there was 67,000+ at Twickenham yesterday watching Barbarians v Fiji. RL doesn't have the international profile union does, but the answer to this isn't to simply increase the number or regularity of fixtures, because we don't have a decent number of international teams who can compete at the highest level.
England v Wales, England v France etc have much more appeal in RU than in RL. I say that through gritted teeth, because I hate RU, but games where the outcome is already known before kick off aren't appealing in the slightest.
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