Its a biggun'! Saddo's going to need a bigger boat,

Pretty much all as a result of getting a new stadium , are you going to get another in the next 10 years ? , ditto Huddersfield , and they still need a million a year putting in , their crowds have leveled off recently despite dirt cheap ST s

Salfords new stadium might give them a boost , or then again it might not

Warrington , new stadium again and investement from Mr Moran

HKR will possibly grow a bit more and should start to see some juniors cone through , but still not massive improvements from now on

Overall things will remain similar to what they are now

Indeed. I'm surprised at some of the short-sighted replies so far. With over double the salary cap the Aussies could afford to have the best of their players back and the best of ours as icing on their cake. Great.

as someone pointed out though would you rather we lost our talent to the NRL or to union.....

Definitely to the NRL, I hope we can get about twenty blokes playing in the elite league.

Then shove ‘em in the International team, and finally have a chance of beating the Antipodeans.

Last time I checked, Hudds were playing in that "new" stadium for a while before 2001, and have come on massively since then, so you can't attribute that to a new stadium.
Regardless of which, why does it matter? Why can you choose to ignore the stadium and the benefits?

Overall, it seems things are similar apart from the things you've chosen to ignore...

No I attribute it to being relegated , actually then winning some games , and then having a million pound a season ploughed into them ever since , but they now have leveled out support wise , and I dont expect that to change drastically in the next 10 years , so as long as in 10 years time there is still somebody willing to tip 20K a week in , they'll be fine

The England vs Exiles concept would have to change if most of the NRL players go home. Do you think they would go back to playing France?

There will always be imports. The quality just may not be as good as in the past.

There will always be imports, but if the purpose of the game is to provide England with a competitive fixture, playing against low quality imports isn't going to give that.

But then again, England can be pretty poor

as for imports it will make very little diferrence, the days of wally lewis, peter sterling, brett kenny etc are long gone.

if they are playing here its simply because they are not wanted badly enough by the nrl.

unfortunately i can see some of our top brits going in the other direction though.

the gap is just getting bigger. personally i would scrap the salary cap but this is a view not many share

If the NRL take 20 plus of our best players they can play it in Australia ( Iam sure it would be no bother playing a mid season international as they would not have to travel) & the lads still here play France. But in all seriousness whatever hapens the Aussies wont give a to$$ about what hapens here never have never will. I will just wait & see as most changes in our game throw up unforseen efects.