Foreign teams will bring their own money, like Toronto is doing and New York will do.

Is it a coincidence that your quiz score also matches your IQ Jean

I'm still shocked they have internet in Chorley!

Ladies and Gentlemen......I give you Barry McEnzie!

At least learn to spell people's names correctly before you make wild assertions.

At least follow your own advice before trying to belittle people

Pedantry is a sure fire sign that you have little left to add (if in fact ou had anything in the first place)

I was at the game last night and was surprised by how little Wigan offered in attack against a Souths team without most of their superstars. Wigan’s defence was pretty good, but outside of that they were a shadow of Wigan teams of old.

What I noticed of all three games at the weekend was that English teams still suffer from the old curse of not being able to maintain intensity for the full 80 mins. They always go to sleep mentally for 10-15 mins a game and that’s where Aussie teams steamroller over them. As someone who watches NRL games week in week out, until SL teams sort the mental issues out they will never compete at the same level.

Agreed in principle but do we need to seperate the needs of the Super League with the needs of the national team.
This has happened in football, the Premier League is a successful business operation and watched all over the world but the top clubs have few English players.

The three teams competing in this competition have quite a few foreign players anyway, maybe if we raised the salary cap we could bring in better imports but keep the ratio the same.

I agree with this, I think it breeds from the lack of intensity in most Super League matches due to errors and penalties. Also, the time taken at every scrum and goal line drop out. It was very noticeable in the Warrington game the other night that it took 3-4 minutes for them to take the drop outs.

Until we see 3 or 4 high intensity matches per week in the Super League, we aren't going to see Super League teams competing with the NRL teams when they are taking it seriously.

There was nu humiliation. Melbourne do that to NRL teams on a regular and the other two games were trial matches.

It's not some kind of shock that the NRL is superior to super league. Jesus man, we have all known this for years.

I agree with the posts about intensity. Super league teams just dont get enough intense games.

Wally Lewis said he feels Leeds would finish 7th or 8th in the NRL. The top teams in super league would hold their own no doubt. It's just getting up to that intensity which they don't get regular enough in super league.

McDermott was right with this quote

"I'd like to say that, given 10 games like that, by game eight or nine or game 10, I reckon we'd be up to that level," he told the post-match press conference.

"So we'll learn some massive lessons from that. But unfortunately it will be another couple of games before we're in a game as intense as that and in one played at that level."

He may be right, indeed he knows better than I do.
However, there's nothing to prevent him sending Leeds out with instructions to try to perform at a higher level than they generally do. As a fan, I've obviously long-admired our intensity and focus when the business end of he season roll around. What I've seen less of - a lot less of - is that kind of ruthlessness during the regular season. As I see it, it's up to the likes of ourselves, Hull, Wigan etc to raise that bar at home. As Melbourne have just shown, it can be done regardless of what the opposition bring to the party. The alternative is to carry on playing the aussies once a year then bleating about their comp being more intense when we lose.