which team would you go for . the queensland maroon xxxx beer canetoads or the new south wales blues tooheys beer cockroaches

Not going to happen.

A live game wouldnt come here as it wouldnt be able to be played at a decent hour for TV back in Aus. There goes a load of $'s. Also the expense of playing the game in the UK would wipe out any gate.

Playing an exhibition game in the off season? At the expense of a potential international, no thanks.

Ordinary concept, State of Origin provides some of the greatest Rugby League you will ever see, but the UK isnt an emerging market (yes london may be). All this would do is devalue the origin concept.

Pipe dream stuff.

yer mann . pipe dreams . like war of the roses games . s.o.o. played in LA . trial matches played in the usa . leeds . salford. souths . mann

Non Aussies?

There have been some who may have been born in foreign countries, but at least they spend some of their youth and rugby league upbringing in Australia.

I cant think of a single player who swapped after playing for several years in the NRL.

london is certainly an expansion market.

why would it be at the cost of an international anyway?

its helped RL in melbourne quite a bit, why not london as well on the same basis

it was an attempt to disctract the thread.

tbf though tonie carroll played for queensland before and after nz and adrian lam was chosen for queensland despite being the PNG captain

willie mason is another.

? did he play for samoa?

hes never played for nz

i am 99.9% sure that big willie played for samoa,

and adrian morley was approached to play SOO when he was at the chhoks.

we could play a double header. war of the roses county vs county.or west vs east. then SOO . that would sell out

Lets move MM to Sydney. It'd sell out the ANZ Stadium both days wouldn't it, I mean, they love their RL over there don't they ?

I'm sure all of these ockers would flock to see games between teams they have absolutely no affiliation with.

I never said that London isnt an expansion market, however is a game of Australians (same could be said for some super league teams) going to help the London RL? There are teams here in Super League and the Championships, there is a growing number of people playing the game. An Australian exhibition match is not going to help the cause.

There are a few things that you need to consider:

The Melbourne game works so well because of a few things:
Government support from Victoria due to the economic benefit created from visiting NSW and QLD fans. I went to the last game there and all hotels were booked out in the CBD.
Melbourne is on the same Time Zone as NSW and QLD

We know about players and their burnout fears. Playing an origin after the season has finished (which is traditionally 3-4Nations/World Cup time). Would almost certainly come at the expense of an international for Australia.

Not being part of the origin calander seriously devalues the state of origin concept and the NSW and QLD jerseys. Make no mistake, there would be a fair few players unavailable to play.

TV: Wouldnt be played to prime time audience in Australia. No revenue for the ARL. This tour would have to be underwritten by an independant promoter or the RFL. Neither (if any forth coming) could see any commercial value.

Littleor no corporate support. Yes there may be the odd 'Australian' company or business group, but not to the real value of the game.

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