Hask gets more like David Brent with every episode 😂.

@@bm8725 Thats the issue, he purposely tries to emulate Brent's style/tone of humour and it is just repetitive now, it's been flogged to death by him and many others.

100% yes

Interesting idea, would never happen though

Big yes

Like the players haven’t been complaining for 10 years about too many games. FFS 🤦‍♂️

@@marcdaniels9079then remove other pointless games

Brilliant podcast. For picking the players, the rule could be: The player has to be eligible for England however out of the current Senior EPS 25man squad/central contracts. But that would pretty much take 25 players out of your 46 😅...

No

Make it Rugby League rules for only Union players be great.

@@chrisr5499 dreadful 👍

Penny ?@@jakeclough8090

No you’re getting a bit silly 😂

@jakeclough8090 why not, it would increase the talent pool and make it a easier guide to progress into a higher level

@@3picreaper210 the premiership and regular league season is the pathway. No one wants to see the top 23 in the country play against a bunch of lower league players, it won’t sell

@jakeclough8090 that wasent what I mean, it was more one level up after playing the same level

@@3picreaper210 and still my point stands. Plus you don’t have the time to do any big tournament in the calendar

NZ Nort v South was a failure

@@chrisr5499not really

Well why did they not keep it @@jakeclough8090

Lets just merge the codes and have a full time premiership/Championship or even better have a B&I league what Sam Warburton says ....be bigger then the english Soccer leagues geograpical.....more money and viewers for subscrpition.

This would need to be on regional BBC or ITV

Don’t know where they’re built now, but Rolls-Royce had their factory in Crewe, Cheshire. Although Rolls-Royce cars are no longer produced in Crewe, the Bentley is - in fact you can go in a tour of the factory. RR and Bentley are Northern!

The clue is in the term “hypothetical “! @@enkisdaughter4795

No way Warne Barnes was awful

That would be complicated what if one was born in London but moved to Newcastle at 8 years old? I would argue they will feel more connected to Newcastle than London

Yeah and someone like cokanasiga who moved here a 2 wouldn’t qualify. It’s easy if you moved here before you took GCSEs, I.e. not for rugby but just life decision so no ribbans etc. then you can play and you play for where you moved to. And drawing a line through the centre of birmingham and Norwich especially is ridiculous, people in northern Norwich or no folk at all are not northern and also wouldn’t want to be split up. There’s loads of regional rugby unions in England (about 30-40 of them) let’s make them take surveys for debate able midland counties and then they are deciding themselves

Born in Kent...

@@RyanShrives I stand corrected! However, I can’t imagine he’d want to play for the south.

Nope - and I’m a woman

Sod that bollocks...the AFL and NRL Aussies rocket her up the charts on Tv viewers

Yes, but it's not North vs South regions only. Otherwise the Midlands is completely excluded. Its the North half, vs the South half of England.

True and seeing the likes of Orrell, Waterloo, Flyde, West Hartlepool etc gone is sad.

Good idea

Not sure I’d call Birmingham northern?

@@jakeclough8090 right on the boundary it’s as far south as I like to travel anywhere after that you might as well be a Londoner

@@10gimp39 ah well you should try coming a bit further south mate and see what the nice parts of the country look like

What no 😂 we need the biggest stadiums and to make it the biggest event possible. And football grounds have more seats and often better facilities, definitely worth it. Might win new fans as well

@@jakeclough8090 If we used rugby grounds then we could expand them. We never will unless we use them. Welford Road for example was going to expand to a 30,000 capacity if it had World Cup matches in 2015 but because the organisers made the stupid decision to use the association football ground, the expansion never happened because they couldn't get the investment to do it even though they could fill 30,000 in a lot of matches now. Also association football grounds have different planning rules including whether you can bring alcohol into the stand and how long you can stay after the match which are not suitable for rugby supporters requirements.

@@barnigranero5882 but there’s no point expanding rugby grounds when they don’t guarantee filling the, every week. Leicester certainly don’t fill their stadium every week you can see gaps of empty seats. Don’t get me wrong they get over 20k nearly every game they are phenomenal fans but I’m not sure club rugby is quite ready for 30k stadiums which will be filled. Play them at football grounds and once you win new fans and clubs are getting higher attendances hopefully off the back of this, then expand the grounds. As of right now only bath, Quins and maybe Gloucester could expand and fill a bigger ground every week. And those football rules apply to only football games, not the grounds themselves. I went to the Saracens v harlequins showdown last march at the Tottenham stadium and you were allowed beers in the seats. There won’t be an issue with that for football grounds when rugby is played there

@@jakeclough8090 I disagree with you on this. The gaps at Welford Road are only when the matches are played at weird times or days. Which is something that needs to change. 15:00 on Saturdays only and Leicester will fill 30,000 and several other clubs could as well. Every time I have been to a rugby game at an association football ground, there have been restrictions. I stopped going if the game was not at a rugby ground. No matter how big the game was because of the restrictions.

@@barnigranero5882 I mean they’ve played 3 games in the last 2 months at 15:00 and haven’t sold out any of them. They said they sold out last weekend but clearly still some empty seats. They definitely wouldn’t fill 30k. Plus Leicester can’t guarantee their games will be at 3 so there’s no point anyway, and they’re the only club who could come close. Well I had a load of beers last season at the spurs game in view of the pitch, no restrictions. But if hanging around and an extra 2 hours after a game and drinking in view of the pitch makes you not go then think you’ve got your priorities wrong mate

So someone like Billy Vunipola won't qualify?

@@gunner4life568yeah definitely has to be move here in school, like before GCSEs or before 18

It's a Premiership concept, so yes obviously.

That should be a league instead

Jim Hamilton, plus Ryan Wilson and Haskell

Just wants some banter , this world is depressing with out laughing