But the aussies & NZ are only tested when the top 2/3 play eachother so it goes back to the entire season playing with intensity for the entire 80 mins as we was shown yesterday.

Well there needs to be something put in place for them to return for England or rep games so they know we are to take it serious.

Probables vs. Possibles? England vs. England Knights basically?

Exactly that but just think the banter would make better with Yorks v Lancs (fans & players)

Yorks v lancs has been done before, many times, and it has failed, neither the players nor tge fans will ever have enough passion for this fixture to be viable.



We need more internationals that is for sure, but even the current idea of the exiles is better than a yorks lancs game as at least it gets our best players playing together as a team.



I'd like to see a mid season test against NZ whilst tge Aussies have SOO.

But exiles are old test players but we still struggle with them as England don't seem to take them serious... they maybe should be playing under a coach/manager who puts the fear of god in them.

Here's an idea. Play some ing international matches instead of contrived bull.



England don't need to play against contrived non-entites to 'raise intensity' or 'recreate Origin' or anything like that. I can't believe, after the WC that we've seen, that people are still coming up with the sort of thing posted on this thread. You people must be legitimately stupid.

Do you kiss your sheep with that mouth?

Point proven.

Plus there is no teams to play around England as there all gash the top 3 in the world are light years ahead of everyone else & its done England no good playing any other teams other then AUS/NZ as they matched them but when they played france etc lowered to play there standards. imho

Well who can England play mid season then?



The likes of Wales and France deemed not good enough opposition.

Australia and New Zealand won't come over here mid NRL season.



Would either of those be bothered about us going over there? They already have their mid season test plus Origin, why would they want to add to their fixture list to play England?



What kind of contest would it be anyway? You couldn't just pop over for a week and play 1 match against those teams, we'd be comfortably beaten, you need to make it a several week thing.



And how would that impact on Super League? Could clubs afford to have their best players away in Australia for several weeks, what will it do for attendances if for example Leeds vs Wigan with them both missing 5 or 6 of their best players each?



How would it effect the salary cap too? Would it be fair if one or two club has 5 or 6 guys away on international duty for a month or so and others clubs maybe only 1 or 2 or none? Would you have to make allowances for this financially? How would clubs plan ahead in pre-season not knowing who of their players might get picked for England duty in June?

By who, idiotic fans?



People need to get out of this mindset that international RL consists of simply NZ, Australia and England, and that everything else is worthless or a waste of time. Has the RLWC taught you nothing?