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Quote: Southport Saint "How could you have an old fashioned tour against club sides when both seasons run at the same time?'"


Who wants that anyway?


It would be horrible!

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Whilst it is great to see the Aussie stars in the flesh as a contest it is non runner - if we played Australia in Australia in a three match series nobody would go to the last test - it would be a joke.

We need to forget about the international scene and concentrate on developing a big enough pool of home grown players to provide the basis of team that can compete with the Aussies.

I would suspend all international involving the home nations until the next world cup by then we may have developed a squad capable of not embarrassing ourselves like we did at the last WC

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yeah, thats would work great.


lets have the Poms in a self congratulatory circle jerk for a few years and then see them be destroyed on the test scene anyway.


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The ashes would only work if we actually played a proper international RL calendar, and not a few games at the end of the year. Games down under in the spring, games in Europe in the Summer, 4 Nations/WC in the Autumn.
England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France all go down under, Aus, NZ, Samoa, Fiji, PNG and Tonga all come to Europe.
Of course, it will never happen because that would mean the NRL and SL putting the international game first and also giving it time to develop

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go you blues cockroaches. blues babes 8) cmon aussie cmon cmon. cmon aussie cmon. cmon aussie. cmon aussie. cmon aussie. aussie aussie aussie ouh ouh ouh :ROCKS: 15 grand final wins. 14 grand final loses. 15[16now] minor premiers. no other club compare's. SUPER SOWARD 8) . ''Dico wrote:'' I thought with the 8 point try you only took one kick and were given the other 2 points? havent seen one for donkeys years. LOL. //forums.rleague.com/index.php:



Quote: christopher "That's actually a really good idea IMO'"
so now peacock wants our ashes . that we have owned for 37 long years . put on the line in a 1 off test . bbbbaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh icon_lol.gif icon_lol.gif

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Quote: Southport Saint "How could you have an old fashioned tour against club sides when both seasons run at the same time?'"


Run the tour in October to November, after the SL Grand Final. English clubs stage one off friendlies on Boxing Day and New Years Day, in the offseason, and they'd get a team together and attract a crowd for a touring Kangaroo team. Likewise, no NRL club will turn down the opportunity to host a touring GB team.

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Um...yes thr would.....and for man valid reasons I will now list.


1. You make it a 12 month season with this proposal, STUPID!

2. You add more games to an over crowded calender with this proposal, STUPID!

3. Try selling a club game to an Australian audience against the worst Eng/GB side ever fielded. STUPID.

4. Whats more important, being ready for the NRL season or some exhibition game against a terrible Pommy side, duh, STUPID!

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Quote: The Glorious League Freak "Um...yes thr would.....and for man valid reasons I will now list.


1. You make it a 12 month season with this proposal, STUPID!

2. You add more games to an over crowded calender with this proposal, STUPID!

3. Try selling a club game to an Australian audience against the worst Eng/GB side ever fielded. STUPID.

4. Whats more important, being ready for the NRL season or some exhibition game against a terrible Pommy side, duh, STUPID!'"


It wasn't stupid all the years that Australia could not compete with the British home or away, no one sugested that we stopped playing them. the one thing that is stupid is the Australian fixation with its own self importance. If you have any respect for the history or the future of league outside your own very small world then a 12 month a year game led by the international programe as the most important part of it with every other competition subserviant to it is the only answer.If you are not interested in that then go away stay in your own comfy world where no one will bother you or have the slightest interest in what you do. fortunatley the British for all our faults look outward to the world & wish to spread this great game.As I repeat often enough if the game had started in Australia it would not have spread past the harbour area in Sydney.

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It appears the Aussies, or at least those from Chorley want the game to go as the NFL has. Play the sport in one country and then you can call yourselves World Champions. Simples.

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The Australia Rugby League look like they're going to say yes to a one-off Ashes Test!!!
see updated article
timesonline.typepad.com/rugby_le ... ashes.html
The Australia Rugby League look like they're going to say yes to a one-off Ashes Test!!!
see updated article
timesonline.typepad.com/rugby_le ... ashes.html


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As long as we dont play in 25000 seater stadia im all for it.

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Quote: those were the days "As long as we dont play in 25000 seater stadia im all for it.'"

Could play it at Knowsley Rd

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Australians have started playing sports other than rugby, cricket and, er, synchronised moaning. As a result, they've started sliding down the Olympic Medals Table, Cricket world standings and are no longer RL world champions. On a wet day in Wigan later this year, they might be humbled. (I said might).

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Quote: those were the days "As long as we dont play in 25000 seater stadia im all for it.'"


Exactly what I was thinking.

25,000 against Australia? We should be playing in much bigger grounds for this game. Especially since it's a one-off.

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I don't really have any interest in taking on the Aussies tbh.........i'd rather us take on the best and have a 3 match series against the Kiwi's.

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