New South Wales team taking shape.

By Daniel Andruczyk The last couple of weeks has seen many developments in Rugby league, not only internationally but also domestically Domestic News The new Southern Wales team has opened up registrations for players to to try out for the new Championship 1 team. In the wake of NRL players continuing to behave badly off field the NRL has called for a summit to sober up the NRL The City/country origin match will go...

Tough Start for Debutants

By Daniel Andruczyk So Its been a couple weeks since the last round up and the competitions in France and Lebanon have continued on their merry way. In France, Lezignan are exerting their dominance once again while in Lebanon the new teams have found the going in the first couple of rounds very tough. Lebanon The two new teams to enter the Bank of Beirut Championships, the Wolves and AUST have found the going tough...

The Simulation – Rugby Leagues International Tournaments – Year 4.

By Daniel Andruczyk So far the first three years have had teams compete in regional championships like the European Cup.  The logical progression from these is that the winners then get to play in some higher cross regional tournaments, one being the RLIF Cup where its the natural progression from the current Four Nations, that is its been expanded to a six nations tournament. Today’s blog looks at the last year...

The Simulation – Rugby Leagues International Tournaments – Year 3.

By Daniel Andruczyk In the last blog the Regional championships were finalised and the winners went through to the next round of tournaments. Also the world cup qualifying rounds had begun. This blog I look at the 6 and 4 nations tournaments that the nations have qualified for. RLIF Cup (6 Nations) The RLIF Cup in a natural expansion of the current 4 Nations. But here rather than having set teams in the tournaments...

The Simulation – Rugby Leagues International Tournaments – Year 2.

By Daniel Andruczyk Last blog I started a simulation that is based on the 4 ways to fix international rugby league. I covered the qualifiers for regional tournaments in Year 1 and now in year 2 of the four year cycle we look at the Finals of these regional championships. At the same time, teams that did not make it to the regional championships they embark on their world cup qualifying. Pacific Nations Cup From the...