Four Nations 2020

[Sir Kevin Sinfield]

We need to bring back a Four Nations in 2020. Forget a 3 match test series, a Four Nations would be so much better. Every game would be absolutely massive, any of the 4 Nations could be in the Final and any of the 4 Nations could win it.

[Oliver Clothesoff]

Hasn’t there been enough International “we need” threads this week? 

[Sir Kevin Sinfield]

Tonga have now beaten all of Australia, New Zealand and England. We should be looking to include them in any tournament on our shores. 

[Oxford]

44 minutes ago, Oliver Clothesoff said:

Hasn’t there been enough International “we need” threads this week? 

Er no!

[roughyedspud]

25 minutes ago, Sir Kevin Sinfield said:

Tonga have now beaten all of Australia, New Zealand and England. We should be looking to include them in any tournament on our shores. 

They haven't beaten England!

[Oliver Clothesoff]

10 minutes ago, Oxford said:

Er no!

No, really there has. 
 

[Sir Kevin Sinfield]

13 minutes ago, Oliver Clothesoff said:

No, really there has. 
 

You don’t have to comment if you don’t want to discuss next year’s international Calendar 

[Oliver Clothesoff]

1 minute ago, Sir Kevin Sinfield said:

You don’t have to comment if you don’t want to discuss next year’s international Calendar 

You weren’t discussing next year’s International calendar. You were “what if’ing”, which goes on far too much on here. 

[Oxford]

22 minutes ago, Oliver Clothesoff said:

No, really there has. 
 

No definitely not and Tonga proved it.

[Oliver Clothesoff]

Just now, Oxford said:

No definitely not and Tonga proved it.

I’m not sure what your point is but I think we’re on about completely different things. 

[Oxford]

Just now, Oliver Clothesoff said:

I’m not sure what your point is but I think we’re on about completely different things. 

No we're not!

[Oliver Clothesoff]

Just now, Oxford said:

No we're not!

I think we are. 

International imaginary situations, much like when people dream up their ideas for structure changes for club RL, has been done to death this week, we don’t need another thread for it. 

[Oliver Clothesoff]

2 minutes ago, scotchy1 said:

Can we leave the mods to moderate threads

If this forum has too much of anything it's people trying to stop other people debating. Which is a very wierd thing to spend your time doing on a forum 

Cheers Geoff. 

[Benson87]

1 hour ago, Sir Kevin Sinfield said:

Tonga have now beaten all of Australia, New Zealand and England. We should be looking to include them in any tournament on our shores. 

 

Expand it to 5, the more the better.

[roughyedspud]

What baffles me is you lot bit and moan there's no international calender...and now we have for that sets out the next several years...you want to change it at 12 months notice..

 

RL fans are effing idiots...

[Oxford]

1 hour ago, roughyedspud said:

What baffles me is you lot bit and moan there's no international calender...and now we have for that sets out the next several years...you want to change it at 12 months notice..

 

RL fans are effing idiots...

Tonga area saleable entity roughyed  and there's still not enough international games.

As for those calling it an imaginary thread

We are such stuff as dreams are made of petal!

 

[Oliver Clothesoff]

3 hours ago, roughyedspud said:

What baffles me is you lot bit and moan there's no international calender...and now we have for that sets out the next several years...you want to change it at 12 months notice..

 

RL fans are effing idiots...

Preach! 

[Damien]

4 hours ago, roughyedspud said:

What baffles me is you lot bit and moan there's no international calender...and now we have for that sets out the next several years...you want to change it at 12 months notice..

 

RL fans are effing idiots...

Isn't that what the NRL do anyway? We have had international calendars before which have meant nothing.

[DavidM]

I agree in general about the four nations , but next year we’ve a kangaroos tour which we’ve wanted and is always box office so I wouldn’t be shifting that . 

[GeordieSaint]

4 hours ago, roughyedspud said:

What baffles me is you lot bit and moan there's no international calender...and now we have for that sets out the next several years...you want to change it at 12 months notice..

 

RL fans are effing idiots...

Can you imagine the uproar if we stopped an Ashes Australia tour next year?  

I think 2022 onwards should be looked at and revised for the future... I am not a massive fan of tours now we have some other competitive nations playing the game. They were justifiable when we only had four nations playing the sport competitively at the highest level. That's not the case now and the likes of Tonga, Fiji and Samoa should be playing Australia, New Zealand and England every year or close to every year as possible. More exposure for the likes of France, Lebanon, Wales et al should be the goal as well.

[bird]

The Four Nations should stay buried, its not a IRLproperty and any profits go to the Big 3. I would have have the fixture list controlled  by IRL and money raised go to funding the worl game.

[MatthewWoody]

Midseason test v France is a must, though I can see SL club blocking it. 
But England (and France, too) need to spend time together as a group, gel, try combinations, etc. 
 

But I'd prefer a Kangaroo tour to a 4N. 
Play Australia 3 times and see how it goes. 
I think they will all be sell-out or similar, given that England came very close in the WC final and that Australia is the best team in the world. 

[Southerner]

I miss the 4 nations tournaments. They were fantastic in my opinion.

[17 stone giant]

42 minutes ago, Southerner said:

I miss the 4 nations tournaments. They were fantastic in my opinion.

I too enjoyed them, and I hope they or something similar will return soon.

However, next year I'm more than happy to have The Ashes. England/GB vs Australia is (for me at least) the biggest game in international RL, and in particular when it's for the Ashes.

[roughyedspud]

Edit "England/GB" out of that!!.

ITS JUST ENGLAND!!