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Quote: Father Ted "We tried a multi team WCC in 1997 and it was a disaster for British RL'"



The concept would certainly work better now than it did back in 1997. That was a one sided flogging if ever there was.

The amount of Aussies playing in SL have made the club game stronger.


I think sides like St Helens and Leeds wouldnt lose by that many points to sides like the Doggies and Cronulla this time round

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I think we could even beat Cronulla know icon_wink.gif

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Erm havent we dont something very similar before?
Wasn't it a god awful failure?

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Quote: Conorgiantsfan "Shut up. You know you love the idea. I prefer my idea i posted earlier icon_smile.gif

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I remember the WCC games from 97, still got the fancy ticket booklet thing in my drawer. My god we got a flogging.
If we repeated the exercise we'd see just how far British RL has come under SL when people moan we are no closer to the aussies than years ago.

Im not sure our clubs would win it but at wire we were happy when the warriors only beat us by about 50...

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I never thought I'd say this but... I agree with Starbug.









I feel sort of dirty and violated now.

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Why change it? What's wrong with what we do now?

When we had a number of teams playing before it didn't work. There are too many Aussie teams that are better than our top teams. The lower teams in SL would get hammered.
The crowds won't come to watch that.

Leave it as one big game and market it well. One day we will be able to play it at Old Trafford.

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Quote: PopTart "Why change it? What's wrong with what we do now?

When we had a number of teams playing before it didn't work. There are too many Aussie teams that are better than our top teams. The lower teams in SL would get hammered.
The crowds won't come to watch that.

Leave it as one big game and market it well. One day we will be able to play it at Old Trafford.'"


Until the NRL side see it as more than a contractual obligation and take it seriously then the WCC will never fill Old Trafford.

My god... it doesnt even fill the Reebok, Elland Rd or Huddersfields ground.


Players from the NRL champions have drawn straws in the past.. to see who doesnt come. What player wants to fly 12,000 miles to a UK winter to play a meaningless fixture? The players have got a long tough season ahead of them in the NRL and dont want to waste what little time off they have by coming to the UK.

The WCC is a dead duck. It only matters to the English clubs and their supporters. It's a relic left over from the 70's and 80's when the game was very different.

Scrap it now.

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Quote: Barry_McKenzie "Until the NRL side see it as more than a contractual obligation and take it seriously then the WCC will never fill Old Trafford.

My god... it doesnt even fill the Reebok, Elland Rd or Huddersfields ground.


Players from the NRL champions have drawn straws in the past.. to see who doesnt come. What player wants to fly 12,000 miles to a UK winter to play a meaningless fixture? The players have got a long tough season ahead of them in the NRL and dont want to waste what little time off they have by coming to the UK.

The WCC is a dead duck. It only matters to the English clubs and their supporters. It's a relic left over from the 70's and 80's when the game was very different.

Scrap it now.'"


Watch how the Melbourne players reacted at full time in this years WCC, or when the Roosters nilled St Helens, or the looks on the faces of Wayne Bennett and Darren Lockyer after Brisbane lost to St Helens, and then try to say that they didn't care.

For every Bulldogs or Wests Tigers who treated it like a holiday there are teams who will come over to try and win. The NRL should remind every team that is going to take part in this fixture that it is representing the NRL and Australia as its champions, and therefore should take the occasion seriously.

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Quote: Barry_McKenzie "Until the NRL side see it as more than a contractual obligation and take it seriously then the WCC will never fill Old Trafford.

My god... it doesnt even fill the Reebok, Elland Rd or Huddersfields ground.

Players from the NRL champions have drawn straws in the past.. to see who doesnt come. What player wants to fly 12,000 miles to a UK winter to play a meaningless fixture? The players have got a long tough season ahead of them in the NRL and dont want to waste what little time off they have by coming to the UK.

The WCC is a dead duck. It only matters to the English clubs and their supporters. It's a relic left over from the 70's and 80's when the game was very different.

Scrap it now.'"


The Old Trafford comment is exactly what I was saying Barry. There is no point expanding until you make the one off game a bigger game.

I disagree that the aussies don't take it seriously. I can't imagine any player at that level just turning up for the sake of it. They even play warm up games now so that they are fully prepared.

and as for the throwback to the 70s and 80s comment. Think you need to do some research on the dates. There was one game in the 70s when Sts went out for a game simply planned between the two clubs and then the WCC started in 87.

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Quote: PopTart "

and as for the throwback to the 70s and 80s comment. Think you need to do some research on the dates. There was one game in the 70s when Sts went out for a game simply planned between the two clubs and then the WCC started in 87.'"



Well yes... I know.

Thats why I said it was a throwback to the 70's and 80's?

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