world club challange mini tournement : Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:03 am  

Gary Hetherington and the Manly chief ex ,put forward an idea on the SL show that our 2nd and 3rd place teams in SL would play the 2nd and 3rd in the NRL in a mini tournement ,one played on friday night one on sat ,with the last been the two champion sides on the sunday ,in a mini challenge type thing

thoughts, would this be another meaningless fixture which any team could pick up injuries or is it somthing worth while ,i doubt the idea would take off tbh its taken the aussys years to take the club challenge seriously

Re: world club challange mini tournement : Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:05 am  

fc-eaststander wrote:

Gary Hetherington and the Manly chief ex ,put forward an idea on the SL show that our 2nd and 3rd place teams in SL would play the 2nd and 3rd in the NRL in a mini tournement ,one played on friday night one on sat ,with the last been the two champion sides on the sunday ,in a mini challenge type thing

thoughts, would this be another meaningless fixture which any team could pick up injuries or is it somthing worth while ,i doubt the idea would take off tbh its taken the aussys years to take the club challenge seriously

Yes.

There is a prestige in a match between the best SL team and the best NRL team, lets not go all Champions League on it.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:10 am  

When I first saw the title of this I thought it was about the FC Irregulars winning the World Club Challenge Tournament held at the Leeds Rugby Academy yesterday!!

Well we did win it!!

As for the "champions league" style club challenge, totally pointless IMO

Re: world club challange mini tournement : Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:17 am  

fc-eaststander wrote:

Gary Hetherington and the Manly chief ex ,put forward an idea on the SL show that our 2nd and 3rd place teams in SL would play the 2nd and 3rd in the NRL in a mini tournement ,one played on friday night one on sat ,with the last been the two champion sides on the sunday ,in a mini challenge type thing

thoughts, would this be another meaningless fixture which any team could pick up injuries or is it somthing worth while ,i doubt the idea would take off tbh its taken the aussys years to take the club challenge seriously

I think its a great idea.

Re: world club challange mini tournement : Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:44 am  

fc-eaststander wrote:

Gary Hetherington and the Manly chief ex ,put forward an idea on the SL show that our 2nd and 3rd place teams in SL would play the 2nd and 3rd in the NRL in a mini tournement ,one played on friday night one on sat ,with the last been the two champion sides on the sunday ,in a mini challenge type thing

thoughts, would this be another meaningless fixture which any team could pick up injuries or is it somthing worth while ,i doubt the idea would take off tbh its taken the aussys years to take the club challenge seriously

I quite like the idea, its better than just a one off game and not as long winded as the previous attempt we had at this a few years back.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:01 am  

not sure if the aussies would be keen on flying 3 teams out, thats over 100 people (including coaches, physios etc) to fly over.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:03 am  

I would love to see more english teams play NRL teams. I would like to see this happen.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:14 am  

i think it would be a good idea

but if were in it will duffen allow it in his stadium

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:20 pm  

I think it would be a good idea if it could be made meaningful, but sadly I don't think it can.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:21 pm  

Irregs #16 wrote:

When I first saw the title of this I thought it was about the FC Irregulars winning the World Club Challenge Tournament held at the Leeds Rugby Academy yesterday!!

Well we did win it!!

As for the "champions league" style club challenge, totally pointless IMO

Undefeated aswel might i add!!