Next year’s Anzac test between New Zealand and Australia will be the last – it has to be signed off but that is a formality. This was reported in the herald.
They are getting rid of it because we get hammered most of the time. This in turn is because we struggle to get access to our best players.
UK clubs will not release their Kiwis and we can’t get NRL players in camp until after the NRL round – unlike State of Origin where players miss an NRL round to be in camp.
It’s sad really, and a blow to international game. Fans like us will now have to wait till the end of the year to see any international rugby league. That’s a long time. I really do look forward to the Anzac test, despite the usual results and I’m never more optimistic than before Anzac test.
Hopefully it will be back in the future, but there is a lack of solutions as to how to accommodate mid seasons fixtures. Actually I tell a lie - there are plenty of solutions, it’s just that the stakeholders prefer to look after their own backyard to the detriment of the international game. The reasons for this are numerous, but that’s another story . . . .
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