Replace Test footy with an annual Champions League tournament.

[ParraEelsNRL]

Yes it was good but only a very small % of the tests that have been played in the last 5 years could be described that way.

Wtf have you been watching then?

Don't bother answering, you have no idea seeing as you posted that bs.

 

[Ladmate]

I doubt this thread would appear if the Rabbitohs missed the finals.

 

[1 Eyed TEZZA]

I'll be honest. Test footy bores me. Only 2 countries are competitive. And NZ only is when they feel like it and that's not very often.

World Cups and Four Nations do nothing for me and do not excite me at all.

I would like us to stop playing internationals and replace them with an annual World Champions League tournament played in October and November every year.

The format would go as follows:

Qualification for the WCL would be the top 4 of the Super League and the top 4 of the NRL. If either comps premier came from outside their top 4, then the competitions qualifiers would be the Premier and the top 3 finishing teams.

The 8 teams would play each other once in October and November. The top 4 of those would then go through to a straight knockout Semi final. The winners would then play for the right to be called World Champions. The tournament would rotate between the southern and northern hemisphere.

For example, this years WCL would consist of Canterbury, Melbourne, South Sydney, Manly, Warrington, Wigan, St Helens and Leeds.

I think I'm probably in the minority but this would be a million times more interesting and entertaining than boring tests with farcical eligibility rules.

Thoughts? And please keep trolling out of this thread. I only want serious debate and discussion.

This post and your entire account is about trolling, and you're asking people to keep the trolling free?

f**k off
waitforit
long face.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

So you couldn't get enough attention with your dumbf*ck comment with your other post so you had to make a thread about.

It's also hilarious listening to this BS about competitiveness. 7 years of QLD winning and yet again all we hear is how competitive it is. NZ have actually won the WC and a tri series in that time and have been competitive yet again (despite facing the combined strength of NSW and QLD) and somehow it isn't a contest.

Furthermore your proposed format won't be a contest at all. You say only 2 teams are competitive in International football so you propose a tournament where only 2 teams have a chance (if that because the storm would romp it in).

Only a moron of your calibre would prefer to watch games involving crappy teams like lol@souffs instead of the great contest we got tonight.

No one cares about WC though. People care about origin.

 

[Sam_the_man]

No one cares about WC though. People care about origin.

No one cares about origin anymore. People care about internationals.

 

[Bobby DIGital]

Every international tournament since 2005 has been of great-excellent standard.

Stupid thread.

 

[Sam_the_man]

Stupid thread and stupid person.

 

[thommo4pm]

Every international tournament since 2005 has been of great-excellent standard.

Stupid thread.

Agree.

And with the World Cup being taken more seriously now, we have record numbers across the globe trying to make it to the tournament.

Playing for your country is the pinnacle of any sport, anybody who suggests otherwise would likely follow a sport with no International presence.

 

[BringBackRovelli]

Mate we should just accept that the only international footy that matters in this part of the world is Aussie vs Kiwis, and that's where we need to create a rivalry and tradition as big as Origin. Trying to get England involved is so difficult with all the travel and the different timings of the respective seasons.

 

[Raiderdave]

I'll be honest. Test footy bores me. Only 2 countries are competitive. And NZ only is when they feel like it and that's not very often.

World Cups and Four Nations do nothing for me and do not excite me at all.

I would like us to stop playing internationals and replace them with an annual World Champions League tournament played in October and November every year.

The format would go as follows:

Qualification for the WCL would be the top 4 of the Super League and the top 4 of the NRL. If either comps premier came from outside their top 4, then the competitions qualifiers would be the Premier and the top 3 finishing teams.

The 8 teams would play each other once in October and November. The top 4 of those would then go through to a straight knockout Semi final. The winners would then play for the right to be called World Champions. The tournament would rotate between the southern and northern hemisphere.

For example, this years WCL would consist of Canterbury, Melbourne, South Sydney, Manly, Warrington, Wigan, St Helens and Leeds.

I think I'm probably in the minority but this would be a million times more interesting and entertaining than boring tests with farcical eligibility rules.

Thoughts? And please keep trolling out of this thread. I only want serious debate and discussion.

you are officially ... devoid of a brain :crazy::crazy:

 

[Big Sam]

No to the proposal. I'd like to see a CL/Expanded WCC though in February to act as a pre-season tournament.

If anything I'd like to see this schedule followed for an International cycle:

2013 - World Cup
2014 - Four Nations in Southern Hemisphere
2015 - Pacific Cup with AUS, NZL, PNG, FIJ, SAM, TON and European Cup with ENG, FRA, IRE, ITA, SCO, WAL.
2016 - Four Nations in Northern Hemisphere
2017 - World Cup

and follow the same cycle from 2018 with possible expansion of the Pacific and European Cups.

This way English players only have to come here once every 3 years and vice versa with the Australian and New Zealand players.

Also every 2nd year players from developing nations will get exposure to playing AUS/NZ/ENG.

 

[Billythekid]

Forgetting all the other bullsh*t, did you actually watch the NRL finals series bunniesman? The storm DEMOLISHED souths and manly and comfortably beat the dogs. How is having another comp, adding in teams that are even worse than that, going to suddenly make things more competitive?

 

[roughyedspud]

i think you are all fools for taking this thread to 4 pages long........

 

[Broncos thats my team]

4 pages? your doing it wrong...

 

[deluded pom?]

No one cares about WC though. People care about origin.

People care about the WC. Australians care about SoO.

 

[Billythekid]

No one cares about WC though. People care about origin.

We spend the entire year hyping up origin and we completely ignore the international game. The 1.5+ million people we got to watch the one off test match between Aus and NZ with literally zero advertising after the season is all over would suggest people do.

Maybe when we actually start trying to hype up the international game properly the the ratings will start to go up.

Regardless of any of that though i barely understand why you responded to me with that at all. It's barely relevant to what i was saying at all.

 

[reanimate]

Yes it was good but only a very small % of the tests that have been played in the last 5 years could be described that way.

I think having a comp with the best clubs in the world would have a much greater proportion of close/tough/entertaining games. And I think this would do more good for the game.

...Are you serious? International RL has only been getting better and better.

Your proposal is pure idiocy. The last World Cup attracted a lot of attention, sell-out crowds and great tv numbers. The last two end of year Australia vs NZ tests have also attracted solid numbers and sell out crowds. Meanwhile, countries like Canada desperately want in on the WC, and have been playing internationals like no tomorrow in order to improve their squad and boost the profile of the game there (and drawing decent crowds for a new operation, e.g. 5000 for their last game).

And you want to kill that in favour of an expanded WCC. :crazy:

The WCC is great, and an expanded one is a solid idea, but it shouldn't be done instead of test football, it should be done only in addition.

 

[siv]

WCC just needs to be played now - in the 3rd week of October

The Leeds and Melbourne can play with their 2012 squads

Before a 6 Nations commences

 

[S.S.T.I.D]

I like the concept of an end-of-season CL type competition and the idea has been floated several times before.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/league/...ue-and-nrl-clubs/story-e6frf3ou-1226240555060

The issue becomes where to fit it all in, obviously. The only way to make it happen would be to drastically reduce the number of regular season games to, say, 20. I still believe that SOO should be on stand alone weekends with other internationals payed concurrently. The regular season would run for 23 weeks therefore. Starting in the last week of Feb the regular season would finish on the last weekend of July and the GF would be thereabouts to the last weekend of August. The end-of-season CL would take 5 weeks and be wrapped in by early October in time for tests, which would probably wrap up by early November. Absolutely massive season for the rep players though – they’d be playing in up to 35 games. But from a scheduling perspective it could work.

I’d love to see it though – but agree that it is probably pie-in-the-sky stuff. Clubs would never agree to cutting 2 home games from the bottom line if they were unlikely to be playing in the CL competition at the end of the year. The other issue is that you’d have fans of some clubs having nothing to really get involved in for about 6 months of the year.

It is something that has already been thrown in the too-hard basket I have no doubt. I personally wish that rugby league had a bit more ambition though.

 

[Valheru]

I certainly don’t agree with scrapping test footy but I always chuckle when people claim it is the pinnacle of our game, it just isn’t. Beyond Aus/NZ (sometimes) there is no real competitiveness. I am all for trying to get this to change but I don’t think it will ever happen.