I know someone involved with the NRL and he's assured me that Lockyer is an . He also said that you'd have to go a long way to meet a nicer and more accomodating fella than Fitler.

My Uncles brothers mums dogs best friend says he's a nice bloke

I thought the most interesting part was him talking about Aussie's beating us so much us down to origin matches. It is preparing them for 80 min high intensity matches.
Don't know how we can prepare like them, maybe more exile matches? Hopefully it will get the intensity that origin has if we keep it going.

I think an origin competition. Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumbria and alternate between Wales, France and The South maybe even have them as a merged entity.

Two knock out games and a final. I know its probably going to be a foregone conclusion of Lancashire and Yorkshire being the best but at the end of the day its better than just the exiles game every year though I think the exiles is miles better than playing France/Wales.


Either that or straight up like their Origin just Yorkshire and Lancashire. They would ALL be up for that as would fans they could use it like they use the magic weekend too have a game in Wales one year Scotland another Manchester another London and so on and so forth then obviously one in Lancashire and one in Yorkshire.


Simple! I need to work in the RFL's PR department

Bring back the War of the Roses I'm all for expansion but branded right (grudge match) Lancs v yorkshire could get things going now the beeb is setting up in the north.loved these games as a youngster and always turned out midweek to watch them