Mr. Fahrenheit said:
Well about France i refer you to the Vichy regime's effects. The reasons why other nations cant compete is the point! If you sent over an australian side picked entirely out of the JB Cup then maybe your desired competitiveness could be reached. The RWC had Portugal as a team FFS, they had 30 registered players... lol Malta have alot more than that in RL and they are a much smaller nation and they WONT qualify for the RLWC.
Mind you there are twenty teams in the union world cup as opposed to ten in the league world cup, so that's why Portugal qualified for the union world cup. I don't think twenty nations play league.
In the league world cup they have to stack Australia, England and NZ in the same pool of four so that they actually have some competitive matches.
Going into the union world cup, New Zealand were the big favourites whilst nations like Australia, South Africa, England, France, Ireland and Argentina were also reasonable chances of winning.
In the league World Cup, anyone but Australia, New Zealand or England winning is impossible. There is no way Australia would ever be knocked out in the quarter-finals of the league world cup, ever.
The last league world cup had to be postponed four years because of the lack of competitiveness at international level.
League's world cup is laughable compared to union's.