Re: WCC18 | Melbourne Storm v Leeds Rhinos : Thu Oct 19, 2017 10:47 pm  

Biff Tannen wrote:

:lol:

Would you want to see a high profile series of games between the top 8 in the SL and top 8 in the Championship? And how do you think that would end? Because the gap between SL and NRL is similar.

Lets get our own comp up to scratch and worth watching top to bottom before feeling some ridiculous urges to challenge the best league on the planet when we are miles off.

How is our comp ever going to get up to scratch when we are too scared to test it?

And we wonder why we struggle to market the game, "super league, not good enough to bother playing the best".

Also dont we have a series of high profile games between the top clubs and the bottom ones? In fact we have a competition, broadcast on national television, where next year Leeds could end up playing an amateur side. How does it end? about 80k watch at Wembley and millions on the BBC.

Re: WCC18 | Melbourne Storm v Leeds Rhinos : Thu Oct 19, 2017 11:42 pm  

With each passing season it's becoming harder to see what the CC does to enhance the game in this country. An expanded top 4 vs top 4 WCC, with the final at Wembley in the summer is way more appealing to me

Re: WCC18 | Melbourne Storm v Leeds Rhinos : Fri Oct 20, 2017 5:01 am  

Charlie Sheen wrote:

With each passing season it's becoming harder to see what the CC does to enhance the game in this country. An expanded top 4 vs top 4 WCC, with the final at Wembley in the summer is way more appealing to me

Exactly.

Re: WCC18 | Melbourne Storm v Leeds Rhinos : Fri Oct 20, 2017 5:03 am  

PrinterThe wrote:

We've tried the top 3 recently and it flopped with comfortable 3-0 wins for the Aussies. You want to add in our 4th placed team for a beating too.

The Aussies would have little to no interest in an event that lasted 3/4 weekends. They don't need it in their schedule.

I know people are desperate for some sort of competition vs NRL teams but there just isn't one that'll work or benefit SL.

No we haven’t w have tried three seperate matches on different days with two of them meaning nothing. That isn’t what I suggested at all.

Re: WCC18 | Melbourne Storm v Leeds Rhinos : Fri Oct 20, 2017 6:09 am  

Charlie Sheen wrote:

With each passing season it's becoming harder to see what the CC does to enhance the game in this country. An expanded top 4 vs top 4 WCC, with the final at Wembley in the summer is way more appealing to me

The top 4 Aussie teams aren't going to come over here for nearly a month mid-season so the idea is dead in the water right there. You could scrap the CC to fit it into our schedule, how do you fit it into the NRL who definitely don't want a longer season?

What are the other 8 SL and 12 NRL going to do exactly? Just sit around and watch

Re: WCC18 | Melbourne Storm v Leeds Rhinos : Fri Oct 20, 2017 6:14 am  

SmokeyTA wrote:

How is our comp ever going to get up to scratch when we are too scared to test it?.

You get the competition up to scratch by focusing on it, not playing the Aussies and hoping it has some knock on effect.

If the Aussies took it seriously with strongest teams they'd comfortably win and all you'll have achieved is making our competition and top teams look poor and inferior on a larger scale.....that'll do way more harm than good for SL. If the Aussies send 2nd string teams then people will see through it as meaningless.

Re: WCC18 | Melbourne Storm v Leeds Rhinos : Fri Oct 20, 2017 6:20 am  

Gotcha wrote:

No we haven’t w have tried three seperate matches on different days with two of them meaning nothing. That isn’t what I suggested at all.

It's moving the deckchairs on the Titanic. You only have to see the first couple of pages on here where people aren't even that bothered if we play the WCC match, also see some views from Warrington fans who whilst they thought it was ok when they beat Brisbane are now wishing they hadn't bothered because how there season went. It's starting to be viewed as a inconvenient event that messes up your season and that just playing 1 game, will be worst playing more.

Re: WCC18 | Melbourne Storm v Leeds Rhinos : Fri Oct 20, 2017 7:34 am  

PrinterThe wrote:

It's moving the deckchairs on the Titanic. You only have to see the first couple of pages on here where people aren't even that bothered if we play the WCC match, also see some views from Warrington fans who whilst they thought it was ok when they beat Brisbane are now wishing they hadn't bothered because how there season went. It's starting to be viewed as a inconvenient event that messes up your season and that just playing 1 game, will be worst playing more.

Exactly, and nobody is arguing we continue with that. The suggestion is a completely different competition with better coverage.

Re: WCC18 | Melbourne Storm v Leeds Rhinos : Fri Oct 20, 2017 8:36 am  

IMV the WCC like the Magic Weekend is an idea that has outlived its usefulness. Both should be binned.
Whilst we're at it move the CC back to an early season comp with the final in May/June/

Re: WCC18 | Melbourne Storm v Leeds Rhinos : Fri Oct 20, 2017 10:45 am  

Gotcha wrote:

Exactly, and nobody is arguing we continue with that. The suggestion is a completely different competition with better coverage.

First year I'm sure you'll get better coverage but after that it's massively dependent on the results which let's be realistic are only really going to be one of two scenarios

1 - Aussies go full strength and batter us and after 2/3 years of all NRL finals and SF's the coverage will drop like a stone

2 - The Aussies send their reserves and people lose interest in it because of the understrength NRL teams making the competition meaningless.

Those are the two very highly likely outcomes and both will see the competition dead in the water after 3/4 years and in scenario 1 you'll have actually done more harm than good to the SL competition.