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Billionaire Marwan Koukash wants to buy a NRL club. Forget it Marwan, make the Super League a World League instead and make the NRL redundant.
All he needs is to get a handful of clubs from Australia and New Zealand on board.
The Newtown Jets, Central Coast Bears, Brisbane Bombers and Wellington Orcas are just some of the clubs ready and waiting.
There would be many other traditional Sydney and Brisbane clubs and proposed expansion franchises who would readily jump at the chance of a life, so far denied to them by the closed shop of the NRL.
Playing in England and France then flying to Australia’s east coast and New Zealand (or the reverse) can’t be that difficult – South African and New Zealand teams have being overcoming similar travel distances and time zones for the past 20 years in Super Rugby. Games in Dubai or Hong Kong are another option.
My proposed ‘Real Super League’ would look like this:
Five teams from northern England.
Four teams from eastern Australia
One team from New Zealand
Two teams from France
Make Super League a real Super League and leave the self-centered NRL competition to eat away at itself in suburban Sydney.
As the Australian Super League showed in the middle 1990s, it won’t take much to break the loyalty of clubs and players.
Then Marwan could have the choice of NRL clubs stars – only they would be calling him.
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