It would be fantastic if England won but would not mean as much to me personally as winning an Ashes series. The best of three tests v the Aussies is the bigger achievement IMO but I will still be very happy with an England win.

The crowds have been good and I think they would shoot up for the World Cup on the back of some England success.

I am fed up with the club game being seen as the pinnacle of RL sport. The one thing RU can teach us is that a meaningful International competition is what generates the most publicity and money and an England win would go along way to helping us down that particular road.

It would mean an awful lot to me after watching the Aussies beat us test after test in my youth days and them always looking on us as pomme amateurs. If we win they will take notice that the super league and Great Britain as a whole are improving at a very fast rate and therefor we are starting to hold our own against the green n golds and New Zealand which can only be good for rugby league in general.
I would just love to wipe that smarmy attitude they have against us come on England proud to be British

I would absolutely love us to win next week... It would be great for infernational RL and might hopefully make people take it more seriously.

I said before we got knocked out of the play offs that I'd trade a grand final win for us if England could win this four nations. We can blame all sorts of different factors for the international games slow death but let's face it the main one is a lack of genuine success. If we could get that success on Saturday the game in this country will receive such a boost. The international game will hopefully start to rise again and become the pinnacle of the sport bringing in the sort of funds it should do which will help clubs at all levels.

Saturday is far bigger then any grand final or challenge cup final and a win to me would mean everything!

Especially as Union is have PR problems, and a lack of success at the moment... It would be nice to kick em in the nuts

It would mean absolutely everything as an RL fan, and would be a massive boast to RL in this country and to the international game in general (and would also mean I can spend the next year mocking my Aussie misses and my mates). I dont really understand why some are so against the national team, and saying they would rather thier club win then England. Do these people realise that the club season is over now? How can our game ever grow if people have that attitude. As we have seen in other sports a healthy international game can improve the profile of a sport at club level and bring more money in.

Well said.
My greatest ever day as an RL fan was being in Melbourne when we beat the Aussies in 1992, and were so close to winning that series. IF and its a big IF we can win on Saturday then
1) It will get us some well earned publicity and recognition.
2) It should also give us some belief in the the future of the International game.

It would be one off the bucket list for me, as i have yet to see the national team win a comptition !

well said Nicky, I am in agreement with all that! Come in England!!!

Well I backed England @ 5/1 to win when Wales were ahead last night, so I would enjoy it if that came in.

Beating the Aussies in any sport is always great.

Be great for OUR game

My thoughts exactly, an Ashes series win would be preferable, also as Great Britain not England, but any victory over Australia would be very welcome.

It would be quite nice to be able to say to all those players who left Rugby League because they'd 'won everything there was to win' - "Here's something you didn't win, and now never will."

Slightly more seriously, I think the spin-off for the British game would be immense. We can talk excitedly among ourselves about how well-balanced SL is and how it's great to watch competitive domestic matches, but out in the real world we are increasingly seen as a feeder sport for RU. Plus, I don't think it helps our status that our 'big brother - i.e. the Aussie game - doesn't give two hoots about us. Now they've got Origin, international RL could disappear tomorrow and they wouldn't care.

To win a major international tournament would turn all this around somewhat, certainly in terms of publicity. Okay, the Aussies would make their usual pile of churlish excuses, but they would be stung and may feel sufficiently challenged to help make the World Cup into a major event.

In short it could be just the boost we need, at just the right time.

Great post. A full house and an England win would do wonders for the game in this country, especially with all the negative publicity hitting RU at the moment.

If We win against Australia I would feel happier than I did winning A grand final and I mean that ,not just because I am an Aussie hater[only on the sporting field],but I really do think our game is in need of this.All our games have been infinately better than the ru wc .It would do us the world of good,but this time its not enough to lose and play very well,we must win.I and I think some of you will have been on one or two aussie forums and pages last few weeks,and after our last game against them I read one comment "the poms played well ,but not good enough" "we taught the poms the game"etc Yes I am an Aussie hater come on England ,they think the greates game was born in 1908

For me if we make a good account of ourselves next weekend ill be happy. Then the key is to build on what we have achieved going forward.

Imagine Ellis, Burgess, O'Loughlin, Mossop added to that team with Widdop and Reed having another full season of NRL rugby under their belts - the future appears to be much brighter than I first thought.