Quote ="WHERESYERBALL"Who gives a toss? International RL is just another reason the RFL can give for expansion its Bulletc .
Go back to tours every few years put money into RL in the heartlands and get clubs like us Fax Fev back up into competing like they used to.
WE WILL NEVER BEAT THE AUSSIES!'"
I get the feeling that some people would endorse a complete return to semi pro leagues if it meant they got to see their club in the top flight next year. Your living in the past, international competitions when done correctly make tonnes of money, money is what keeps this sport alive. If there were no Superleague then within fifteen years all the RL teams in England would just be small feeder teams with a few hundred people watching them around a roped off field, all the talent would go to much bigger and wealthier northern RU clubs.
People have to take into account why New Zealand have overtaken England. New Zealand Warriors themselves are an expansion club, they are very competitive in the NRL and export a lot of domestic talent to NRL sides. New Zealand's players play in a higher intensity competition (the NRL) than Superleague week in week out. New Zealand is a Rugby country and all the school kids who are interested in sport over there will grow up wanting to be Rugby players.
We've always had the odds stacked against us in England. Soccer is our national sport, Rugby League is played in a small geographic area and doesn't feature very highly in the national consciousness. Contrast this with RU who have amateur clubs everywhere in the country and a large player pool. It's not that Superleague sent us backwards, it's that the rise of New Zealand Warriors and the export of NZ players to the NRL propelled their international team forwards.
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