Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "The fine print needs to be resolved, and the comp may or may not eb a success though I would hope they'd give it a crack of about at least 10 seasons to tinker and improve, before scrapping it, if they start it.
But we had a number of sages on here loudly telling us that there was NO WAY the Aussies would ever agree to any such thing and the talk of an extended WCC or similar was fantasy. Where are they now? Are they the same ones who now calim there ain't a cat in hell's chance of it working? Love it!'"
We need this. My only concern is that we go into it half baked, in a kind of 'start small and see if we can improve it' way, which risks a dissappointing start and then two opposing camps from day one: "scrap it, its rubbish'' and " we've got to stick with it and hope it improves", both of whom are half right and half wrong. What we must desperately avoid is a flop which kills the concept for another generation.
It can't be beyond the wit of man to design a really meaningful international club competition right from the off. Not a silly couple of games pre or post season, but a proper competition that spices up the season over an extended time frame and helps keep RL in the news *regularly* ( not a couple of times a year ). Like the Champions League and Heineken Cup. Do that, and I'll be firmly in the 'give it time' camp.
Even group stages can be done without insane travel - you just play your two overseas away games ( assuming 4 teams per group, two SL, two NRL ) in one single overseas trip.
Wow, you really hate rugby league don't you?!
