Steady! Don't bring cricket into it! That Manchester team you talk about represents 27 proud boroughs of the old boundary, has 17 home grown players in its squad and are champions of this country!
And for the record you live in cheshire!

Because all the best players in sl would be taking part,would you pay to attend this match reguardless of whether you are from lancs, Cheshire the south etc?

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Really?

It's quite simple re label it. West Origin v East Origin.

You could always go East vs West, but there would be plenty of "Yorkshire, Yorkshire" chanting (whatever you call it)

It runs from the River Duddon in the North to the River Mersey in the South. Irish Sea to the West and, for the sake of simplicity, we'll just say the Pennines to the East.

The whole Greater Manchester/Merseyside thing was administrative only. Even at the time it was said that it wasn't breaking up the historic county boundary.

Let battle commence. Yorkshire vs Lancashire it is then !

It's a fair point, I've always thought that are scouse cousins have struggled to identify with Lancashire as a team, but surely you can see the merit of it representing the left side of the Pennines?

WOTR is the obvious route to us matching the Aussies for me. The RFL need to properly support it for at least five years for the good of the British game.

Completely pointless ans goes against everything we are trying to achieve as a sport.

no he does not
Depending on his age, it depends on where he was born for what he is. Only Warrington could leave both Lancashire ("we're not GMC or Merseyside"icon_wink.gif and Cheshire (in 1989, except when criminals need to be arrested or fires put out) to become an island by the ship canal. Historically, really it's a suburb of Winwick.

Better than an exiles game, and the RFL wouldn't have to blow all it's marketing budget to gain interest

And a team made up primarily of English players would win something

It has potential. Although my memory becomes increasingly jaded, when they tried the "Roses" games in the past, they were usually midweek.
These days, with the involvement of SKY, the game could marketed more strongley and if National jerseys were up for grabs at the end of it all, then maybe the
players might treat the game as a full on Origin type game.

And therein lies the problem. The Roses game was never treated as a GB/England selection game as the coaches always have their little favourites that will be picked and very rarely go off current form for team selection.

Coaches always have their "favourites", at every level, but if the RL public has seen a certain player busting a gut in a game of this type, then the national coach would look somewhat daft if he ingnored that player.