Given the talk about what England's best preparation for international rugby league and whether the Exiles game is good enough I decided to write an article about how I think the focus needs to be put on improving the French national team through Super League.

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Fill it full of Aussies, worked for England and Catalan.

Yep. Arguments I've been making for a long time.

Been saying it for a long time that SL clubs should sing more french players than an unheard of Aussie.

he would probably be more determined, train harder and come at half the cost, and i bet they would be more successful than a lot of the overseas players. Marc herbert anyone?

Posted on here several years ago 5/6 , that to improve the quality of players at ' emerging nations ' [ I suggested Russia at the time , that you would place say a dozen of them at SL clubs [ in pairs to train full time , but have them registered with Championship [ then NL teams , essentially a dual reg system

They would gain the benifit of full time training and possibly playing at semi pro level , the NL clubs would gain a player , an all round win/win situation , the only potential problem being if they did a runner over here and refused to go back when the deal was over

Is the reason Catalan came into the Super League but in my opinon there have gone backwards,yes Catalan has been a massive success but the national side havnt progressed.

You'd need to have central contracts for them, because it'd be unfair on the clubs involved to have to pick up this enforced expense. But other than that, it seems like a workable idea.

But really, the work needs to be done at grassroots. Increasing the player pool is the only real way to improve an international side

Part of the idea being that the players would pick up good coaching techniques which they would eventually take back and would help develop the next generation of player

the RFL needs to put all thier eggs in one basket and concentrate all of the money spread out on France, Wales and Scotland and pour it all in to France. Wales and Scotland should come under GB. We are spreading the wealth to thin.

French players not counting on the cap would be another way on improving the French.

I agree but because of funding from Sport England the lead National team needs to be England. Hence why we have an England and England Knights team. IMO ideally England Knights would be England, England should be GB and the pinacle of UK rugby league, with England, Scotland and Ireland feeding into GB.

i couldn't give a sheeiitte about em to be honest, its not our responsibility and we can't force a good rugby league team upon them its gotta come from themselves. We have enough problems with our own national team

Have an GB ashes series eveyr 4 years, which just about every fan wants