Quick question would you rather Wigan win on Saturday or England win the World Cup
England winning would put League on the map in my opinion
Saints Supporter.

Wigan by a mile, the World Cup holds no interest to me, a few weeks of pointless games then NZ vs Aus for the title

England for me, because it would be so far against the odds and I've never seen it happen. Just for one day the world might sit up and take notice of RL

Club before country. Everytime.

England, just because I'd like to see it once before I die !

Easy answer, England to win the WC. I've seen Wigan win everything many times.

England for me, I've seen Wigan win Championships, Challenge Cups, World Club Challenges etc, etc, etc.
I've actually seen GB win a series back in 1960, but I would love to see them win this years World Cup. Plus the publicity it would get for the game would be immense.

England without any shadow of a doubt.

GB to win it would trump everything is sport

GB to win an ashes series is a close second

Would love to see GB win a test series over Australia.

England, the assumption being it would give British RL some much needed oxygen of publicity, allowing it to fight for a better TV deal, better sponsorship and so forth, and stave off disintegration as a pro sport for another ten years or so.

Even though the reality, probably, would be Nigel Wood and co basking in the glow of victory, telling us all what a great a shape the game is in, and subsequently doing even less than normal.

However, the tiny chance of a victorious WC throwing us a lifeline is better than the no chance at all we'd have if Australia romp to yet another easy and predictable success ... so it's still England for me.

100% for Warrington their board there again i have heard that next year is going to be their year.

Wigan every time.

I'd even rather see Wigan win a pointless friendly vs Batley above anything for England RL.

Pointless and meaningless team that's full of players from teams i don't either particularly like or want to support.

Does anybody really believe that the sporting world gives a flying if England win the RL world cup?

The title of this thread is Wigan or England, when the first World Cup was held in 1954 the decision for the players was home or England.

The 1954 tourists had just lost a series 2-1 to the Aussies in what was a gruelling and brutal tour, in fact in the match against NSW the Ref walked off the field with 10 minutes left and left the players to fight it out.

The GB tourists played 22 matches in Australia and 12 in New Zealand and remember these men where only part time and most of them had to beg time off work for 3/4 months often with loss of pay.

The French had come up with the idea of an inaugural RL world Cup to counter the immense pressure they where put under by the French RU, the W/c began with 4 teams , France, England, Aus and NZ.

The majority of the England players opted out, quoting that they where spent after only getting home from the tour, which meant that they went into the competition with a scratch team.

England went on to win the competition and what made it unusual was the Captain was a Scotsman, Dave Valantine,
this makes me wonder why the name for the team was changed to England instead of GB which it had always been.

I hope some historian of the game can help on this.