Yes, the NRL clubs whinged and moaned about releasing players and them playing too many games.

FWIW the last few test (real) series here finished 2-1, hardly a whitewash...

after 38 years . you poms want it back

I dont think we should play again as the lions, we should just play as England and get Wales Ireland and Scotland to play more games.

With 14 clubs now in super league and the salary cap spreading the talent between clubs I dont see why England and Australia cant have a 3 week/match test series mid season. No club should have to lose more than 3 players for a month probably about may time would fit in best. People will laugh and say thats never going to happen but I dont see why not, England RU play loads of games mid season. We could then have a four year international cycle

2013 World Cup
2014 England tour Australia Mid season. NZ tour England/France end of season
2015 Four Nations
2016 Australia tour England mid season. England tour NZ end of season
2017 World Cup

I thought they already scheduled in a Lions tour down under for 2014 (year after WC?).

The only time you could have a GB tour is the year after the WC (doesn't interfere with qualifying then).

or you just send england instead of GB..

england could tour in 2012 while wales wales & scotland are qualifying for the 2013 RLWC

Is there any particular reason it is called the Ashes, or is it simply because it is us v Australia.

Thought the aussies won it 3-0

What you mean when tour games used to sell out Old Trafford, Elland Road and get huge crowds at Wembley instead of not selling the Galpharm out, Believe it or not there was RL before super league and whilst SL is a great product one massive loss is the neglect of the international game. There is NO reason why proper tours cant be reinstated!

I would like to keep the tri/4-nations format so that more nations can pay witness to England beating Australia....

LF is spot on.

the Tri Nations was thought of by wayne bennett to save international RL after we beat GB by over 50 points

& a good idea it was. He seems to think that iternational League is worth saving which is a lot more than most of his country men do, but as I have posted before the disrespect shown by Australian clubs on the last propper tour just about killed the game off they put out weakened teams as the winfield cup was more important to them. The same attitude still prevails they would much sooner watch state of origin & have no interest or willingness to help promote the game. I am ariving at the sad conclusion that Australians are quiet happy to be world beaters at a sport that very few other people play & would be even happier if we in the northern hemisphere did not bother to play. There stars were afraid to come over incase they got bombed, there clubs complained that it was to much of a strain on there players & now they are complaining about not being able to wear there VB logo in France & have suggested vetoing the match there. With the vitriolic postings of league freak & dally messanger(ironic posting under the name of a true missionary of the game) who deride anything not Australian it makes me wonder what has happened to the jovial fair minded people who I always associated with Australia. They won't be happy untill they become as stupid & perocial as the Americans.

Having been side tracked my answer to the original post, The ashes are for cricket lets be big enough to have our own trophy like the Calcuta cup between England & Scotland in that other pastime & played for each time the side meet in whatever competition is being played at the time, we should have seperate trophys for each of the nations we play.

It hasnt been the Winfield Cup, for about, 17 year, you f***ing idiot!

ENGLAND captain Jamie Peacock has called for rugby league's Ashes to be put on the line when his men take on Australia during this year's Four Nations tournament. Excited by the hype surrounding the current cricket series, the Leeds star said over the weekend it would be a big bonus for league if its version was on the line at Wigan on October 31, a one off game to decide a title Australia has held for 36 years. "The cricket Ashes this summer has been massive and really captured the imagination of everyone around the country,'' Peacock said. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 5765392911

ENGLAND captain Jamie Peacock has called for rugby league's Ashes to be put on the line when his men take on Australia during this year's Four Nations tournament. Excited by the hype surrounding the current cricket series, the Leeds star said over the weekend it would be a big bonus for league if its version was on the line at Wigan on October 31, a one off game to decide a title Australia has held for 36 years. "The cricket Ashes this summer has been massive and really captured the imagination of everyone around the country,'' Peacock said. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 5765392911

It would have been logical to hold a Kangaroo tour of the UK in 2011, to avoid competition with the Union RWC in NZ in Sept-Oct 2011.

Given the schedule as it is, and the fact the NRL clubs don't want a Kangaroo series the year before RLWC, a Lions tour to NZ is probably the best bet, playing the Warriors, NZ Maori and a 3 test series against the Kiwis.



Why won't Ireland be? The fact is that Wales, Scotland and Ireland should all be given automatic entry to an RLWC on their doorstep.



icon_eek.gif We have a planned out schedule up to RLWC 2013, with a 4N model based on the lacklustre 1999 3N.