Thread: Future Rugby League World Cups?

The gaps between 1 & 3 & 5 are simply too big to make it a sensible & exciting competition.
These are the top two proposals for future world cups:
Either A) split the top three nations up into a Team Greater Yorkshire, a Team Greater Lancashire, a Team Midlands and South, a Team NZ North Bay, a Team NZ Central, a Team NZ South island, a team NSW teens (all aged under 20 at the time the qualifying rounds start), a team NSW twens, a team NSW seniors (all aged 30 & over at the time of the finals tournament), Queensland teens, twens and seniors, and a team for each other Australian state & territory & each other country or autnomous area in the world. 20 teams qualify (12 from the Pacific group & 8 from the Euro-afro-west-asian group), five groups of 4 - the group winners are joined in the quarter-finals by the three winners of round four (played by 5 2nd-placed teams and one best third).
or B) one team per country (maybe two from Australia, one U28, one 28yrs/o+), 12 teams in the world cup. Round one = the opportunity for underdogs to leapfrog up with a big upset or for big-guns to go up one rung with a particularly big margin of win: Seeds 6v7, 1v8, 2v9, 3v10, 4v11, 5v12.
Round two = 1v2 (the highest placed round one winner 1v8 versus best one of 2-4 by margin of win). (>) 3v4; > 5v6; …;
in round three: W1vW2 > W3vL1 > W4vL2, …;
in round four: L1vW2 > L2vW3 > L3vW4, …. & a handicap match between W1 and the bottom 3 teams (with an extra man on and with extra substitutions) – if this handicap match is played, it can decide who wins the round 4 Gold Medal match in the event of a draw, or it can even give one of the teams a 1, 3 or 5 points’ head start;
Round 5 (final round): W1vW(A) > L(A)vW(B) > L(B)vW(C) > L(C)vW(D), …

It is a system of evenly matched and unpredictable matches, in which teams that win move up a notch/rung to play teams that lost the chance to move up themselves and thus have moved down a notch/rung.
Six teams can still win going into round two and 8 can win bronze in the above (which gives ALL the teams five rounds of play OR only those who are still in with a chance of finishing in the top 3or5 play in the final two rounds).

i think they've got to either enter two australian sides (or possibly an aboriginal side), or divide into two different kind of cups, all the weak teams and all the strong teamas

The RLWC is a joke. One team can win it and that is all. The only way it will work is if you disallow the Kangaroos from taking part.