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Rugby League World Cup 2013
The case for a Union style Tri Nations in League
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<blockquote data-quote="William18" data-source="post: 656695" data-attributes="member: 38439"><p>Super League has gone for less teams because they just don't have 14 competitive teams. Look at London and Bradford this season who have both been woeful for very different reasons. They also badly needed to reinstall promotion-relegation to create more interest at the bottom of the competition and to give clubs genuine pathways to compete at the top level. I feel that the format they have chosen isn't ideal. </p><p></p><p>The thing is if you shorten the Super League season then clubs earn less money and some are barely staying afloat as they are. Domestic rugby league is hwere the players ear money. If you shorten that then you lessen player's pay packets and that isn't going to fly. Right now it seems there will be no serious internationals involving the Kangaroos in 2015 because the players don't want to play.</p><p></p><p>There was a league style tri-nations before and it was a far better competition than the current 4 Nations. Now the New Zealand vs England pool game is almost the only game which matters before the final. However, I still think 4 Nations is the way to go. It allows for the competition to be done in 4 weeks rather than 6 for a home and away tri nations. This gives all players two extra weeks rest during the off-season which is already quite short. Most importantly it encourages other rugby league countries to compete amongst themselves to be the 4th team. Who wants to play in the European Cup? Probably no one. Maybe players will if winning that cup enables them to play Australia, New Zealand and England. The 4 Nations at least shows some ambition to grow the game and I think ambition is what rugby league needs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="William18, post: 656695, member: 38439"] Super League has gone for less teams because they just don't have 14 competitive teams. Look at London and Bradford this season who have both been woeful for very different reasons. They also badly needed to reinstall promotion-relegation to create more interest at the bottom of the competition and to give clubs genuine pathways to compete at the top level. I feel that the format they have chosen isn't ideal. The thing is if you shorten the Super League season then clubs earn less money and some are barely staying afloat as they are. Domestic rugby league is hwere the players ear money. If you shorten that then you lessen player's pay packets and that isn't going to fly. Right now it seems there will be no serious internationals involving the Kangaroos in 2015 because the players don't want to play. There was a league style tri-nations before and it was a far better competition than the current 4 Nations. Now the New Zealand vs England pool game is almost the only game which matters before the final. However, I still think 4 Nations is the way to go. It allows for the competition to be done in 4 weeks rather than 6 for a home and away tri nations. This gives all players two extra weeks rest during the off-season which is already quite short. Most importantly it encourages other rugby league countries to compete amongst themselves to be the 4th team. Who wants to play in the European Cup? Probably no one. Maybe players will if winning that cup enables them to play Australia, New Zealand and England. The 4 Nations at least shows some ambition to grow the game and I think ambition is what rugby league needs. [/QUOTE]
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