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| For those that don't know or remember what we used to do.
The Australians would come on tour here for an Ashes Test Series, and we would go there for the following one.
The Ashes were contested 39 times, from 1908 to 2003.
When the Aussies came over they would play games against the leading club sides, as both warm ups and between the games.
The Great Britain side did the same over there, playing their club teams.
As a club supporter, it was the ultimate game, to watch your team going up against The Kangaroos.
The series themselves were often enthralling, and common wisdom, or folklore had it that the Aussies let us win the first one, to make a series of it.
In any event, I have seen some fantastic games, and been at brilliant occasions during these series.
I also remember tours by New Zealand, and New Zealand Maoris, but it was the Aussie games everyone wanted to see.
I spoke to Jonathan Davies recently, and he said that one of the highlights of his career was scoring the winning try in the first test at Wembley in 1994.
Incidentally that 3 match series drew an aggregate crowd of 140,430 spectators, with 57,034 at Wembley, 43,930 at Old Trafford and 39,468 at Elland Road.
It is worth remembering that the last two were capacity crowds at those stadiums then.
Unfortunately due to the one sided nature of the contests, and other issues, the idea of international tours seems to have faded away.
I do miss them though, and would love to see their return.
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| Warrington players having a great game in this afternoon's match. France seem to be kicking a lead ball.
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| Nice of Hock to get MOM just so the BBC can ask him about his alleged move to Parramatta.
He had a poor game and was nowhere near the best player on the pitch.
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| Quote: Marco-Van-B "I think that the pitiful crowd last Saturday, and the one sided hammering proves me right not to even consider going, it was a no contest.'"
The pitiful crowd did not prove you right to not go - expecting the crowd to be poor should not be a reason not to go. However you do have a point about the mis-matches - sadly these games are not doing much to improve international RL credibility.
Quote: Marco-Van-B "As I pointed out, why did the England team need go to South Africa for altitude training to prepare for that?'"
They didn't. They went to SA as part of the preperations for RLWC2013. The team needs to spend as much time together as it can so that when the big games against Aus and/or NZ come round, they are ready. It was interesting to see the Warrington players comment on how things they did in Aus in January were still in their mind before and during the Grand Final in October. These intensive training camps can do so much to prepare players individually and as a team for big events.
It is a great shame that the otherwise successful inclusion in SL of Catalans has not helped (yet) produce a more competitive France team and obviously it's extremely dissapointing we don't currently have a Welsh team at all in SL. But I still don't see the current and recent weaknesses as reasons to give up. International RL does have a place and it can be successful with a bit of tweaking. And I'm convinced RLWC2013 is going to be a good event with mostly competitive matches.
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| Quote: Marco-Van-B "II think that the pitiful crowd last Saturday, and the one sided hammering proves me right not to even consider going, it was a no contest.'"
hmmm, I see England hammered Fiji today in that other type of rugby. A one-sided, meaningless game - surely no-one bothered to turn up, right? Er, hang on, this must be wrong. I've just looked it up and apparently 81,000+ were at Twickers! If only RL had fans like that! Then we'd get more attention, more money, more sponsors, more attention, more money, more players, better facilities, more money, more attention etc. Many RL fans moan about what is provided for them and about how the game is run - if only they'd turn up to games then perhaps they'd have less to moan about?
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| Maybe the fact that one-sided meaningless games are very infrequent in RU leads to more people caring about the national side, and therefore turning up like we would for a wire match against a team (I know we don't get 81k but you see my point).
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