Not ideal,talk of interest from the USA now. Anything that commits to the profile of the game can only be good for the game. It is what it is.

Replace them and crack on. Important for marketing the game in UK. Was great comp last time round their loss.

Would like for it to happen not just cos we have tickets.

The Brisbane coach says it was the players who decided not to come which is different to whats been published.Maybe hes got it wrong, not much right with Broncos this year.However, if no nrl players are available, then it would affect most teams, including our own.

Apparently, might be another meeting down under Monday..

I feel is should be cancelled if the big two are not competing, it would be a WC you wouldn't want to win

Very true EVO, lets face it nobody credits Daley Thompson with winning 2 Olympic Golds due to USA boycotting one and Russia the other.

We should still have the RLWC, if we don't, it will give Australia even a bigger ego about their standings in world RL.

Carry on regardless.
Players and teams have been preparing in equally or even more difficult situations as Aus and NZ, and are willing to travel now. Yes the tournament will be different without them but every team is important and the rugby league world and the tournament needs to acknowledge and show that.
No one team should get to dictate what the world of rugby does and doesn’t do.

Agree.

The Olympic Games survived political boycotts from the strongest teams, and this is still a World Cup without the NFL presence.
It isn’t as if we have had loads of RL to watch.

You can only beat who is in front of you.

It's a power play by the NRL which will only highlight its only bunkum when those countries send teams to other parts of the world to compete in other tournaments over the next few years while Australia itself drifts in and out of lockdowns under the delusion that zero covid is a viable stance to take in a global economic world, or just for the sheer authoritarian insanity of it.

Yes, exactly the same, what a great comparison!

Massive fail, most people credit Thompson for his 2 golds

In Moscow the Russians finished 2nd, 3rd &18th
In LA the yanks finished 6th, 7th & 12th.

Thompson’s regular duels were with Jurgen Hingsen who was West German.

Thompson was a world class athlete and your comments say more about you than him.

Sarcasm does get lost sometimes

So your saying the World Cup should be cancelled because of the Aussie and NZ withdrawals

Writing was kn the wall