Can they be competitive?

Their squad for this years European Championships:

Danny Addy (Bradford Bulls), Josh Barlow (Swinton Lions), Sam Barlow (Leigh Centurions), Danny Brough (Huddersfield Giants), Harvey Burnett (London Broncos), Brett Carter (Workngton Town), Lewis Clarke (Edinburgh Eagles), Sonny Esslemont (Hull KR), Richard Harris (Warrington Wolves), Ben Hellewell (Featherstone Rovers), Alex Hurst (Tweed Heads Seagulls), Ben Kavanagh (Widnes Vikings), Corbyn Kilday (Wakefield Trinity), Ryan Manelly (Warrington Wolves), Nathan Massey (Canterbury Bulldogs), Joe McLean (Gloucestershire All Golds), Iain Morrison (York City Knights), Finn Murphy (Edinburgh Eagles), Lee Paterson (York City Knights), Brett Phillips (Workington Town), Callum Phillips (Workington Town),Gregor Ramsay (Easterhouse Panthers), Louis Senter (Halifax), David Scott (Doncaster), Jack Stewart (Hull KR), Oscar Thomas (London Broncos), Shane Toal (Barrow Raiders), Adam Walker (Hull KR), Alex Walker (London Broncos), Jonathan Walker (Leigh Centurions), Joe Wardle (Huddersfield Giants).

Add in Matty Russell who played in the World Cup (I think he was injured), Linnett and Wallace from NRL and Ferguson at Bradford.

Either way, they've earnt their chance.

Its like Hartlepool Accrington Stanley Grimsby and Macclesfield playing off for a place in next seasons champions league one of them would earn the right doesn't meen it should happen

scrap it then lets just have a 3 nations.

we do this year...97 players from......Australia (35), New Zealand (36) , England (24)...with 2 Samoans who have yet to get a game.

Its crap just like the world cup everybody raving about the group games then nobody mentions the one sided QFs then the only 3 decent countries playing the game plus a whipping boy in the semis AGAIN followed by Australia v England / New Zealand final and it will be exactly the same at the next world cup and the one after that

Fully agree. Hopefully they play at least one game up in Scotland, can mix that with a trip to the in-laws!

There lies the problem Samoa Tonga fiji and the Cook Islands will never match the Aussies or kiwis because anyone half decent opts to play for Australia or New Zealand until there no longer needed and then reverts back to there country of birth at the back end of there career

RLWC was a great tournament that was well attended and gave the sport much needed national exposure. Unfortunately, it didn't do any good for the sport in Scotland, Italy, USA and the other countries who were represented by mainly "heritage" players from the big 3 countries.


Scotland v anyone, in Scotland in the next 4 nations will struggle to get the 5k Wales managed for Australia in 2011 and an absolute tonking in that game will do more damage than good....but you have to let them play.

The Qualifying process was open and fair....just because the french couldn't be d, it's no reason to penalise the "scottish" players who got them there!

We just seem to embarrass ourselves trying to copy international rugby union we haven't got enough good teams which will be shown when the RU World Cup starts we should stick to what works and toe its a test series against Australia including a couple against New Zealand plus a game against PNG or Samoa

The only thing that's embarrassing is your posts on this thread.

And Scotland's games won't be get your head out of the sand and contribute rather than throwing an insult with nothing to back it up feel free to tell me how it's good for the game a nation with no interest in rugby league hence the 1400 who turned up to watch them get hammered by France by the way should be playing at the top table in a prestigious event were they will get beaten badly even of they do pull in the Scottish Aussies

Well, the Kiwis appear to do well with a single "franchise" in the NRL, so maybe a PNG franchise could enhance the national side similarly.

Here, well I don't know how we go about it, we've developed/assisted a French franchise, but they've not done a NZ, have they? We did the same for the Welsh, maybe we ought to have looked to pastures new, Serbia, Romania, Albania?? I really just don't know to be honest!