Willie Mason played for Tonga.

Origin in England? Nah. It'd be like bringing over Premier League Darts to Tumbi Umbi. A few ex pats may go. A few interested darts fans may go.

play a double header locals vs imports aswell tooheys blues cockroaches vs xxxx maroon canetoads

Can you get banned for flooding the messageboard with so much crap that doesn't make sense? Or just generally being irritating for apparently no reason?! I genuinely haven't read one post by fredie that has contributed to a topic on this board!

yes morley was and it was disgraceful

ive already bought my tickets to sydney.

ill try to get brisbane ones but they sell 53,000 in fifteen minutes so its tough

origin is simply brilliant.

watching test match football is a bit like charity after watching origin

with origin its been competitive for 28 years.

id love to see international footy succesful but when i go you always have your heart in your mouth that australia arent going to win by 50.

and then when they lose the odd game its like the 2nd coming of the messiah

Not in England it wouldn't. Non RL fans in this country will never have heard of origin, so if an origin game was to be held here they wouldn't have any idea that it was going to take place. Over here nobody will attend a game between two teams from the other side of the world in a sport that they are not interested in.

I doubt that it would sell out in Hull, Wigan, Huddersfield etc as there would be plenty of RL fans who wouldn't be interested in forking out for a ticket to watch two teams that don't have anything to do with them and have no affinity for, just as Australians wouldn't flock to ANZ stadium, Suncorp stadium etc to watch our biggest rivalries such as Hull v Hull KR, Leeds v Bradford or Wigan v Saints.

the tri nations final in 2005 didnt involve a local side and still got a very good crowd.

its just sour grapes from some of the neg mis sods in england . you could use origin . too pump up more fans . get war of the roses back . play 2 games at the same venue . like wembley . when the fans see the brutal warfare like SOO they will go crazy for it . all the players will want too play at wembley on this day . pump them up aswell . if its done right it could turn out too be 1 of the greatest rugby league days of the year

what a load of garbage . AFL . NFL . sell out fool

so you have had . the best of STATE OF ORIGIN BEFORE ?? played in the uk ?? i take that as a no . nostradarmos pom .prediction of the future mastermind

Only because people had pre-bought tickets in the expectation that England would be in the final.

I know it's a hard concept for you Aussies to grasp but SoO just isn't big over here.

We know it's massive in Oz, just like the Baseball World Series is huge in the USA, but they hardly get a mention over here and then only in specialist sports press and media. You will not find any mention of SoO in a UK newspaper - not even the results of games.

An Origin game in England may attract 25-30k tops and even that would be dependent on location.