While driving to work today, I placed a 'hands free' call to SEN 693 with a couple of ideas. The man who took the call was very interested and said they would call back ... but it was close to end of show, and I told them I driving...etc...so ended there...
Anyway, my thoughts were:
WCC:
- Why not make the 2 GF Winners automatic selections for Las Vegas.
They both arrive earlier with financial renumeration and play WCC.
ESL team stays on and plays against another ESL team
NRL team stays on and is one of 4 nrl teams to play nrl round 1.
Promotes the game for nrl AND ESL etc.
INTERNATIONAL MATCHES:
- Hold a regional championship every 4 years
- two years after each world cup
- the 4 teams are:
- Australia
- NZ
- Northern Hemisphere combined
- combined Pacific Islands & PNG
What league supporter in their right mind would not follow that???
BIG prizemoney ...much to the players
Could be played anywhere...countries to bid!
Would give winning team the title of world champions and give e.g. pacific team huge prestige and bring them closer together ... RU has nothing like it and so we could realistically entice more pacific and nz etc players over to nrl from RU
One day, there may even be a USA player in the northern team plus 1 or 2 French players
Why not innovate and invigorate the international calendar instead of the current one ...where, lets face it ... the world cup final is usually Australia v NZ and Australia wins.
Such a competition may also entice more players elligible for Australia or NZ over to the pacific nations team to further even up the scorecard...
Aside... the Pacific Nations/PNG Haka would be an eye opener wouldn't it?
Crazy or good idea????
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