: Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:06 pm  

dally messenger wrote:

i wouldnt suggest one of the 3 live games is played there.

more an exhibition game in the off season.

if it mean losing one of the real games then i wouldnt be a fan of it.

too valuable to be wasting on heathens

Not going to happen.

A live game wouldnt come here as it wouldnt be able to be played at a decent hour for TV back in Aus. There goes a poop load of $'s. Also the expense of playing the game in the UK would wipe out any gate.

Playing an exhibition game in the off season? At the expense of a potential international, no thanks.

Ordinary concept, State of Origin provides some of the greatest Rugby League you will ever see, but the UK isnt an emerging market (yes london may be). All this would do is devalue the origin concept.

Pipe dream stuff.

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:38 pm  

yer mann . pipe dreams . like war of the roses games . s.o.o. played in LA . trial matches played in the usa . leeds . salford. souths . mann

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:41 pm  

fredie wrote:

yer mann . pipe dreams . like war of the roses games . s.o.o. played in LA . trial matches played in the usa . leeds . salford. souths . mann

Fredie, I am all for expansion and new frontiers.

But this one is just not viable at all.

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:49 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

Hey don't expect me to defend that farce but how many non-Aussies have pulled on the green and gold over the years...



I am aware of what it once was and what the two states have turned it into, incidentally when it was first revived it was only done so on the understanding that it wouldn't be a trial for international selection unlike the sad state of affairs it is today.

Non Aussies?

There have been some who may have been born in foreign countries, but at least they spend some of their youth and rugby league upbringing in Australia.

I cant think of a single player who swapped after playing for several years in the NRL.

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:57 pm  

hindyscrack wrote:

Not going to happen.

A live game wouldnt come here as it wouldnt be able to be played at a decent hour for TV back in Aus. There goes a poop load of $'s. Also the expense of playing the game in the UK would wipe out any gate.

Playing an exhibition game in the off season? At the expense of a potential international, no thanks.

Ordinary concept, State of Origin provides some of the greatest Rugby League you will ever see, but the UK isnt an emerging market (yes london may be). All this would do is devalue the origin concept.

Pipe dream stuff.

london is certainly an expansion market.

why would it be at the cost of an international anyway?

its helped RL in melbourne quite a bit, why not london as well on the same basis

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:58 pm  

hindyscrack wrote:

Non Aussies?

There have been some who may have been born in foreign countries, but at least they spend some of their youth and rugby league upbringing in Australia.

I cant think of a single player who swapped after playing for several years in the NRL.

it was an attempt to disctract the thread.

tbf though tonie carroll played for queensland before and after nz and adrian lam was chosen for queensland despite being the PNG captain

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 3:03 pm  

dally messenger wrote:

it was an attempt to disctract the thread.

tbf though tonie carroll played for nz before and after queensland and adrian lam was chosen for queensland despite being the PNG captain

willie mason is another.

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 3:04 pm  

Fingerposts Finest wrote:

willie mason is another.

? did he play for samoa?

hes never played for nz

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 3:10 pm  

dally messenger wrote:

? did he play for samoa?

hes never played for nz

i am 99.9% sure that big willie played for samoa,

and adrian morley was approached to play SOO when he was at the chhoks.

: Mon Apr 06, 2009 3:18 pm  

we could play a double header. war of the roses county vs county.or west vs east. then SOO . that would sell out