I'm confused too

i can see the Fifa Under 20's world cup, and some cricket thing

I can not understand some people on this site, why moan at something we have needed for a long time, get real lets get it on last time I went to oz. it was ace to watch and the same when it was over hear even if we did get beat

Best RL news for many years.
Lets hope that our starting 13 aren't all playing their club rugby down under by 2015 though !!!!!

Start our season in September, end it in May, have GB tour down under in our summer and let the tourists come here October and November. Schedule 3 tests and let them play the top 8 SL clubs and a NL combination side as well.

Winter RL is better anyway.

2 tests, but we'll need 3 for the ashes right?

the Kick & Clap World cup runs from September 18th to October 31st, so while our Playoffs/Grand Final is on. Still time to time to fit a GB tour in during November, and SKY will probably want something to bring the viewers back after all the attention is on ITV's home World Cup.

Bout fookin time GB was brought back, Red Hall finally seein sense!!!

Bulking up the World Cup is an awful reason to maintain a segmented and weakened national side. Why not bulk it up by making Australia play as NSW and Qld? It has as much validity.

No it doesn't. NSW and Qld were never independent nations and haven't been recognised as such by a major sporting body. England, Scotland, Wales & Ireland were and have been.

The fact that we [uused to be[/u independent states is neither here nor there, likewise that certain sporting bodies continue to recognise us as such. We aren't.

But we are a union of nations, in many ways like the EU or the Eurozone.
And the fact major sporting bodies have historically recognised and continue to recognise the separate nations, including, importantly, the RLIF, is very much here and there and provides the validity that is missing with NSW & Qld.
You might disagree that the separate nations should be separate but that doesn't mean the separate nations lack validity.

Most nation states are made up of several constituent nations, but it is the nation state itself which should determine the national side. The history of a nation state really is irrelevant, otherwise you could argue for Spain to field umpteen national sides, or for the Czech Republic and Slovakia to combine forces in sporting events. I'm sure you wouldn't see those arguments as holding any validity, so why should GB compete in a form based on its history?

Out of interest did union steal GB lions from us or us off them?

Have a home nations and France running midweek games through the season every year, use those games UK BASED TEAMS for GB selection. This could go some way to stopping Welsh/Irish/Scottish players choosing England.

GB tours every few years

That's exactly my line of thinking. Ideally you would have 4 of the best players in their respective positions playing for the home nations going head to head in a GB trial. In that sense it would be beneficial when players like Brough, or anyone else who thinks they aren't guaranteed an England spot, to opt for a home nation which they qualify for, because that will be their best chance to prove themselves and earn their GB cap.

I'd run it as GB every year bar world cup year

1. 4N over here
2. World Cup
3. 4N in Oz
4. 4N in NZ

Agreed, it worked in the past. And even during the 4 Nations years, the players that don't make the GB team could compete in a Home Nations tournament.

Saving the pennies already.

Ive been banging on about this for a while. Atleast it would give more players a chance to represent at international level. The aussies aren't interested in growing the international game because all they are bothered about is SOO. England would be the strongest at first but I bet it would even out over a decade or so. Plant the seed and let it grow.

That will do for me.....used to go all the time when we played as GB In tests but lost intrest when switching to England....all we need now is a coach who knows what he is doing.

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Don't hold your breath!!

Get the feeling that the GB tour announcement is after "the horse has bolted". Possibly by 2015 we could already have most of our international team over there.
1. Tomkins
2. Briscoe
3. Reed
4. Watkins
5. Hall

6. Widdop
7. Chase

8. Burgess
9. Roby
10. Graham
11. Hock
12. Mossop
13. Burgess

Hopefully it will benefit the fringe and younger players.

I'd like to see the4natins become a 5 nations comp. oz, NZ and eng plus the winner of the pacific cup and European cup.

2013 WC
2014 5 nations oz/NZ
2015 ashes series plus kiwi European tour UK
2016 5 nations UK/France
2017 WC Australia/NZ/png