4 way tournament

West England
East England
Celtic Nations
Rest of Europe

East
West
Overseas super league players
France

This way we have France playing in (hopefully) intense competitive gamesthus aiding both ours and their progression in international rugby. A sister tournament could run along side this involving Wales Scotland and Ireland plus one guest nation which could change year on year (ie Lebanon Greece USA etc)

If the concept of Yorks v Lancs didnt catch on then why oh why oh WHY waste time trying to organise a team who were born inbetween Hull and Gateshead v a team whose immediate family once had a Big Mac meal in St Helens?

Its nonsense.

Yorkshire and Lancashire are the 2 biggest RL playing areas in the UK...and if rumours are to be believed... they dont like one another much.

If Yorks v Lancs cant get a healthy crowd then no 'origin' type thing will.

this guy has the right idea.......oh look its me!

I love the way the naysayers conveniently forget that the last time these fixtures were played they [idid[/i get healthy crowds, even more so because they were midweek & zero marketed games.

England vs Rest of the UK would of been a better shout. They are never going to get anything like the state of origin games. In OZ they veiw those games more importantly than playing for the green and gold

Thats because they are stupid though.

but the players never really fancied it...

Correct

West

Briscoe/Tomkins, Riley, Bridge, Gleeson, Goulding, Briers, Eastmond, Morley, Roby, Graham, O'loughlin, J Tomkins, Sinfield

Myler, Moore, Coley, K. Brown

East

Widdop, Hall, Atkins, Senior, Smith, Burrow, McGuire, Peacock, Diskin, Crabtree, Westwood, Ellis, Burgess

Lynch, Pryce, Wilkin, Shenton

R.O.W (S.L)

Hodgson, Richards, King, Delaney, Hicks, Dobson, Sammut, O'Meley, Monaghan, K. Leulaui, Landerson, Menzies, Fitzgibbon

Gidley, Buderus, Newton, Lauititi

France

Greenshields, Pelo, Raguin, Jean Phillipe Baile, Stacul, ?, Bosc, Ferriol, Touxegas, Gussiet, Elima, Mounis, ?

So you are saying there aren't 40,000 rugby league fans who wouldn't take advantage of an event that is included in their season ticket to see the best 34 British players take aim at each other. Wigan and Leeds must be playing in front of cardboard cut-out fans tomorrow if that is the case.

Sadly for the sport yes I am saying exactly that.

So this is the last generation of rugby league in the UK, with fans replaced by cardboard cut-outs at SKY's request and flatcappers deeming a free ticket included within your season ticket as too expensive, saying "at least Dick Turpin had the decency to wear a mask!"

If you build it, TheY will come, especially if it's free!

Firstly we make the amount of league games smaller
by shrinking the amount of teams in a league

split the teams into two top leagues

West Division - East Division
11 teams - 11 teams

top 3 West v top 3 East in playoffs against each other

league games reduced by 4
playoff games reduced

leave plenty of room for gimmicks, etc

For me there are 2 options to create an event and a meaningful fixture to improve the england team at the top level.

England v Yorkshire is the logical choice.

But instead I would like to see the current SL champs play England in a new club v country game at their home ground.

It would be a real test, I could see some great pr opportunities surrounding a club v country game and a full house.

I would also like england still to play the winners of a wales V france fixture each year.