The billionaire owner of one of the UK sporting teams wants to put a UK based team in the comp. Sounds silly at first but his plan makes sense.

He talked about the UK team travelling here for all of its away games, then going back. Each Aussie/Kiwi team would play a Thursday night game and then the following Sunday (10 days later) in the UK the have their bye the next week. His Soccer team sponsor is an airline and they would put on all flights for all teams, and most likely special flights from places direct like Cairns, Newcastle etc. Each UK game would be played in big stadiums. The business case makes a lot of sense.

Drawing a parallel to another local international competition which many here may not follow, the skill level of Netball has increased dramatically, especially internationally since the ANZ Championship started, with 5 x teams in Australia and 5 in NZ. It has attracted English and Jamaican and Malawi players into the comp and as a result their National skill levels have increased, especially England's. The same could happen for the level of UK Rugby League to make them better, rather than being a retirement competition for Aussie players.

As Mauser says Fiji or PNG oe Samoa are both massive development areas for League, a lot of current and past players have heritage from such countries, like Jarryd Hayne, Adrian Lam, Petro Civenaceva (spelling?), Uate, Foi Foi just to name a few. It wouldn't be hard to achieve the same thing with a team there. If a relatively lowly supported game like Union can have a tri-nations League should be able to achieve it.