We've had a PNG side in the QLD cup before and they done OK, they didn't have the money for travel every week having to pay for all teams to go to their home ground.

I have no idea what teams from Ireland a Wales will be involved, but the French Federation has it on its site saying that this is what is going to happen next year, if you don't like it, take it up with them because I bet they, along with the RFL have more of a @##$$%#$ idea than some keyboard hero who thinks he knows how to run everything.

So Montpellier have taken the step up? Very good.

Excellent news isn't, lets hope a few more of the bigger cities can reach the Elite over the next 5 or so years, RL needs to get back into the big cities in France.



Listen flatcapper, I want RL to grow and reach its full potential, you want to watch crap from a run down old ground with stuff all support so you can whinge and whine for the rest of your miserable life.

When and if RL dies, it'll be because of w@nkers like you who only wanted your home town to play against some tiny little neighbour you want to get one up on while everybody else outside a 5 mile radius can $#@% off, the true RL fans in both hemispheres will march on the flatcappers with pitchforks and torches and put you back where you have always dreamed of being, the @#$%^%$ stone age.

You just don't get it and you never will, if you give people the chance to play more games and represent their nations/Clubs/home towns on a bigger scale with the hope that talent scouts are out there watching which may very well give you a shot at making some money in a pro team, these guys will more than likely stick around and make RUGBY LEAGUE THEIR FIRST CHOICE SPORT, thus the game of RL that you supposedly like or love will grow and become stronger eventually giving you more happy times watching the game from different places or your damn lounge room on Sky sports.

If 1 or 2 Irish and Welsh sides are added because they are the only ones up for it, good, if more can afford to play, great, if they all can,@#$%$# marvelous eh?

You have no idea how many clubs have been invented, yet you want to tear it down before it even has a chance to get up and running.

And as for your pathetic Summer vs Winter BS, the LER has just finished and there is 1 game left in the NRC to be played in 17 days, your argument has no merit in this instance at all.

But hey, as long as you home village has a team that can play the village 5 miles away every 4th week, you'll be happy.

Get bent flathead and since when is LSV newer than Ammi Park in Melbourne?

No Starbug, you won't let anything ruin your perfect little world and try something different.

It's too hard, it can't work, it's a stupid idea, I don't like it blah blah blah.

Thank god RL use to have forward thinkers or the code would have been dead 100 years ago.

You said theirs is a winter game, ours is in summer. Well the comps more or less run at the same time bar a month, so that's no excuse.

You say, but the teams are crap, well how do you know?

You say, what are they going to do, let all the teams play?

I don't know starbug, you'll have to wait and see what they come up with like the rest of us.

Maybe they'll only let the GF teams in from ireland and Wales, maybe Wales will only allow the Scorpions in, who knows?

There is no need to knock it on the head before its even had a chance to prove itself is there?

We'll have to wait and see.

Cheers.

Game set and Match

So you think badly thought out idea's are good for the game , the conerfence clubs had a group in the NRC acouple of years ago , the RFL didn't continue with it

Putting a French group in may be possible in terms of the standard of play, but definately not the Irish. It would be a miracle if any Irish team could keep a championship 1 team below 100 points. Records would be broken every time they played.

But you start somewhere.
It would be a nice reward for say their Championship winning club

If the French and Welsh clubs consist of Toulouse and the Scorpions then it's only fair that they join the competition as they are Championship members.

However, any intention to put a different French or Welsh side, and particularly an Irish one, would be asking for trouble. If it has to be done then I suppose the only way would be for them to play in a separate group (as the then-NL3 clubs did - what happened to that?) and the winner goes through.

Personally, I'd prefer to see the other clubs join in to a second tier competition in the same manner as the old Silk Cut plate; the four best sides who don't qualify for the knock-out stages of the NRC can face the four best sides from a Welsh/French/Irish mini comp, with the eventual finalists being a curtain raiser to the main NRC final.

Putting any sort of Welsh or Irish amateur side, or even a lot of LER clubs, would just be lambs to the slaughter and do nothing for the competition.

Could there not be a preliminary round (we could call it something else, as preliminary is hard to say after a few beers) consisting of a Welsh, Irish and French team? Winner goes into the NRC? I think South Wales and Toulouse should be automatic inclusions.