Country for me - as I think it was before Leeds won anything (thinking late 80s-mid 90s era).

Like Roy H, I'm in my late 40s and to see England (or GB) win the World Cup and/or beat Australia in a series would be the ultimate. I think it would give the game in England a boost and whilst NZ beating Australia a few years ago ruffled a few feathers here, the sky would really fall in if England beat Australia when it counts.

Whilst 'heritage' players don't bother me that much I can sort of understand why some people get upset by them. But why do RL fans give a flying monkey about the nationality of the coach?

I don't care were the coach is from. Just that he's the best man for the job. My problem with Wayne Bennett is that he's an active coach for an NRL side. So he can't see enough games to make an informed decision of who's playing well. And his focus during the season is more on Brisbane and how they're doing, than England.

To answer the question Club. I missed Hull kr's glory years. So other than a few minor trophies haven't had the joy of seeing them win the big trophies. And it just means more, because you go all season rather than just a few games.

I agree if England won the WC it might promote the sport more. But if we had a proper international calender for years in advance & more organisation at an international level. That could also help promote it.

My preference is to have an English coach, but I'm happy with a foreign coach if they're the best option for giving us success. We're not really in a position to turn down people that can improve us.

Heritage players are present in all sports nowadays, but the more a team has, the more it devalues them as a legitimate team. If it's a short term thing while you grow the game in a particular country, then I can accept it as being a necessity. But if you're just doing it year after year and no home grown players at all are coming through, then it becomes a farce.

There's no point in having a full time coach unless we play enough games to make it worthwhile. Bennett is relying on Betts and co to help him re SL players. That's far better than just watching on video anyway, which is what an England based coach would do with NRL players. I think the biggest difference Bennett will find with England compared to say Australia or Queensland is that he's having to do more basic coaching and working on confidence in a way he'd never need to do with those sides.

The Aussies being so far ahead on the international stage has killed the international game as much as anything, for their fans and for ours, we go into tournement after tournement knowing that in the last 30 years only 1 or 2 have not been won by the Aussies, We live in hope but our minds always know what is going to happen.

so the problem is almost unfixable, if our present crop cannot win this tournement I don't know what we can do to increase peoples interest.

Id rather see Saints win the GF personally

Regards

King James

To be fair it's probably rarer than seeing the Aussies get beat.