Compared with abandoning one of 3 credible international sides in the Northern hemisphere to play a meaningless match against a team of journeymen with no reason to care about the outcome and expecting it to attract a crowd it is a genius.

It may be stupid, but it is still far more sensible than the proposed 'international'

How about we offer 20% of the gate money to the All-Star Man of the Match - even if it's a 12,000 gate, all paying around about 10 quid, it'll still be a lot of money for the player. Or, offer half the gate money to the winning team?

or make it to charity and appeal to their more sensitive side!

PNG got fuggen close to beating England just two years ago.

lol no they did'nt....we where never in any danger of losing it

The motivation will be there for the 'Other Nations' trust me who ever think's otherwise is kidding themselves (there are 2 way's of thinking about this 1 -it'll be many players only senior Rep jersey and 2- it'll be many of the Australians last Rep jersey ever).

For it to really benefit England the 'Other Nations' has to be as strong as possible