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For international rugby to take off we need Australia pushing the agenda or more to the point the people in charge off the NRL and their sponsors.
Australia like to spout off that it is our fault and to a lesser extent the Kiwis that the international game can't draw interest due to us not being able to compete but they show no willing to change or help out when they are in the strongest position to do so.
It's easy to just coordinate a complete shut down mid season for 1 month.
All players realised to fly to their appropriate side of the world.
6N each side
England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France and Italy
New Zealand, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, PNG, Cook Islands
Aus because of their dominance play SOO that month, they could possibly extend it to a 5 game series.
Other players not selected get a month off to rest, have operations, recover injuries.
Even have a Europe v Oceania 3 game series end of the season
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The trouble with the WCC is all the excitement is this side of the world only.
The insular Aussies see us as inferior and see it all as a waste of time.
One step should be having the WCC 2 weeks after the GF, so that players that won it are the same players that compete in it.
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| Quote: Wire Yed "The trouble with the WCC is all the excitement is this side of the world only.
The insular Aussies see us as inferior and see it all as a waste of time.
One step should be having the WCC 2 weeks after the GF, so that players that won it are the same players that compete in it.'"
The aussies are insular about everything though, internationals or the club game. If rumours are to be believed they have scuppered the mooted GB tour next season and they didn't want to play internationals in 2012 which meant we got the awful European competition which saw 3 blow out scores and about 8,000 at Salford watching the final. At least with a WCC competition it would be the clubs who decided rather than the ARL, thought it would obviously have to funded somehow.
I agree ideally the WCC would be played at the end of the season, with same squads and coaches etc and with no disruption to either season. I don't think that would be taken too seriously either though because all they players would be too busy concentrating on celebrating their GF final win than they would on the upcoming WCC. |
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| Quote: Wire Yed "The trouble with the WCC is all the excitement is this side of the world only.
The insular Aussies see us as inferior and see it all as a waste of time.
One step should be having the WCC 2 weeks after the GF, so that players that won it are the same players that compete in it.'"
True, but I think with it made an end of season comp, maybe in alternating hemispheres we (the top SL teams) would compete. We need to do it consistently over there. As Craig said the strength in RL is in the in game. We should focus on our strengths. |
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| Quote: Wire Yed "The trouble with the WCC is all the excitement is this side of the world only.
The insular Aussies see us as inferior and see it all as a waste of time.
One step should be having the WCC 2 weeks after the GF, so that players that won it are the same players that compete in it.'"
That sounds great until you think about the logistics of it. One team's fans will have bugger all chance of being able to save up and get over for the game, plus the clubs would probably want a bit more time to prepare. I suppose one way to do it would be to extend the WCC to the top x amount of teams rather than the GF winner, at least everyone gets a bit more preparation time that way |
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| Quote: Eastbourne Warrior "Internationals is where RU are light years ahead of RL, it's where they get most of their money from too. They can play 'friendlies' in front of 80000 at twickenham where we struggled to get 25000 for World Cup games.
You can't blame players for wanting to play in that kind of arena.
I've been saying for a long time RL needs a set international calendar that we will stick to. We try concepts like the exiles for a couple of years and forget about it.
Everyone will have their own opinion of what we should do but I like the idea of introducing an RU style 5 nations. I think there is more chance of players that would be willing to play for Wales, Scotland and Ireland if they had regular fixtures. There is also more chance of clubs like the scorpions & crusaders being a success if their international team played regularly.
Without going into too much detail or giving it too much thought as to where fixtures would fit in
This. It constantly annoys me that we never know when or even what hemisphere England/GB will be playing next. We desperately need a set international calendar. At least we've got a set World Cup schedule now but I'd go with a set 4 year cycle of:
(All end of season comps)
Year 1 - 5 Nations in Southern Hemisphere (Eng, Aus, NZ & top 2 pacific Island nations)
Year 2 - Ashes Tour
Year 3 - 5 Nations in Northern Hemisphere (Eng, Aus, NZ & top 2 European nations)
Year 4 - World Cup
I don't see why that can't be done. Or something along similar lines anyway. But make it a set, definitive calendar. Not a "well we might do but we might not and then we'll just decide what's happening a few months beforehand". It's the only way we'll build interest. Both from spectators and sponsors.
I'd also have an annual mid-season 5 Nations both here and down under. I understand the arguments against it, but I think it's better than nothing. The one here would obviously be England, Ireland, France, Scotland & Wales. The one down under would be Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Tonga/Samoa.
It could be done in 3 or 4 weeks with mid-week games, done in the same format as the Union 6 Nations, ie 1 game v each team and no final.
SL will have to take a break like it does for the Challenge Cup.
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