Quote ="Jonesy"It will never work out unless there is massive money involved.
The NRL teams have no real desire to play the English teams as seen in the WCC.
The "Scalps" of Leeds, Wigan or Saint Helens mean little to NRL Clubs or their supporters.'"
Exactly.
We may as well have a European Cup like they have in union, where the top Super League teams play the top teams from the French Elite One competition. The Super League clubs and fans might feel a bit 'meh' about playing the French teams but that's how the NRL teams and fans would feel about playing Super League teams.
I think the only thing that would make it credible would be if say England beat Australia a few times in say a 4 year period, so the Aussies started to get respect for the English and then they would be interested in playing their clubs.
The Aussie public are often disrespectful of sports teams they think are crap but they do change their respect, in cricket for instance the next Ashes is now very highly anticipated, lots of talk in the Aussie press, radio phone ins etc about how do the Aussies get it back and topple the Poms, they did give English cricket respect after winning back to back Ashes.