A couple of problems what is Lancashire? Wigan are about the closest to being Lancashire and they are in Greater Manchester. And could it somehow include Cumbria.
The Lancs v Yorks thing doesn't really seem to light our fire.
Why? Well, player move clubs a lot more, so to a larger extent,players move between lancashire and yorkshire with more regularity. So the likelyhood is that you'd be watching as many players on the opposition side as your own.
The other point is that clubs loyalties (from supporters) seem to get put infront of enven interest in England.
They also played the last ones midweek.
I think we could get the counties thing going, but we'd have to start it sublely.
Remember when cumbria played England a few years back and a bunch of part timers gave the national squad a real game?
We've covered the fact that the population of cumria is too widely dispersed to support a SL franchise, but they could well develop a good representative side that would be good opposition for the likes of France, PNG, Tonga, Samoa etc.
I also think that it would be beneficial for France to play against not only cumbria, but yorks and lancs. That way, France would get more by playing a competive game and the England guys would be able to try out more players.
So say France have a international series of
vs Lancashire
vs Yorkshire
vs Cumbria
France lose to Lancashire but beat Yorkshire. Scandalous. Next come the jibes about one county being better than the other. Next year the opposite happens and all the poop gets thrown the other way, by that point you may have a genuine interest in the roses game, rather than forcing it.
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