International Rugby League (International Rugby League Limited)
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Oct 26, 2026
Denan KempHOST
um i'd actually i'm actually probably happier with a team winning 36 nil rather than say 70 to 16 or something like that um relatively happy on both sides relative i mean sorry really happy on the lebanon side okay tom i'm i think it's a solid performance
Tom JaegerHOST
yeah i think lebanon started this game really well they're well and truly in it uh i just think this is the reality of international rugby league now that you have not just one or two really classy, good teams.
Tom JaegerHOST
You have four or five now, and Tonga is one of those.
Tom JaegerHOST
I echo your thoughts around their defense.
7 MINS LATER
Tom JaegerHOST
It was really interesting on the sideline there when I'm watching this and it's just, it's so weird.
Tom JaegerHOST
These things are happening.
Tom JaegerHOST
International Rugby League, but seeing the New South Wales head coach running the...
Tom JaegerHOST
the interchange numbers for Lebanon on the sideline in Maddie King.
Justin HoroHOST
up.
Justin HoroHOST
And then to International Rugby League.
Justin HoroHOST
Yes.
Justin HoroHOST
We're never going to get to the level – not to say we're never going to get.
Lee AddisonHOST
I'm actually going to take you to the Total Rugby League forum on somebody called Damien who posted something.
Lee AddisonHOST
Now, I'm not endorsing anything that Damien says, but I think it's going to be a fantastic conversation starter, right? Every four years we see the same issues between the haves and the have-nots in International Rugby League and seemingly never learn.
Lee AddisonHOST
Sure, we have more competitive nations at the top level since the 1995 World Cup, but this masks an awful lot in my opinion when you take a deeper look.
Lee AddisonHOST
In reality, the only real difference in the last 30 years has been the good fortune of NRL heritage players and the relaxing of international eligibility rules.
9 MINS LATER
John DavidsonHOST
So, I mean, that kind of points to
Lee AddisonHOST
the...
John DavidsonHOST
Yeah, that kind of points to the growth of international rugby league in Australia, which, you know, hasn't always been a priority with State of Origin
Lee AddisonHOST
and the NRL.
Lee AddisonPANELIST
Great TV viewing figures, I believe.
Lee AddisonPANELIST
Also, International Rugby League elicits the thoughts and the feelings that Club Rugby League simply can't.
Lee AddisonPANELIST
There's a story of one of the PNG players' parents, or family members, sorry, trekking seven days from the Highlands because they couldn't afford any method of travel just to watch football.
Lee AddisonPANELIST
their family member play in the World Cup for their country.
12 MINS LATER
Lee AddisonPANELIST
full of want and care, it's like I'd given them performance-enhancing drugs all of a sudden.
Lee AddisonPANELIST
There was people who should have retired...
Lee AddisonPANELIST
Oh, sorry, did retire from football six years earlier who all of a sudden had some kind of superpower because it was from something deeper, right? So International Rugby League can be about that too.
Lee AddisonPANELIST
So your lower nations will certainly click into that.
JaseAUDIENCE
Now,
DanielAUDIENCE
Part of the issue with Lebanon, and very similar to Scotland and Ireland and Italy, who all participated in the last World Cup, they've actually had their membership status of the International Rugby League stripped, reason being they haven't met certain criteria.
DanielAUDIENCE
One of those criteria is participation.
DanielAUDIENCE
development of pathways and Lebanon is actually one of those teams as well.
DanielAUDIENCE
Now, Lebanon won't make the finals this time around, which means because they've had their membership status revoked, they actually won't feature in the next World Cup, which is rather sad, until they are able to prove that they can have their membership back.
DanielAUDIENCE
So there's certain metrics, very similar to the criteria of what determines a Tier 1 and a Tier 2 nation.
DanielAUDIENCE
there's certain metrics, certain parameters that rugby league nations have to fulfill in order to have international rugby league membership status.
Mat RogersHOST
Yeah, all I can say is this, Daniel, I'm really glad you didn't type that.
JohnnyHOST
Why wasn't, as soon as it was signed off, why wasn't it publicised and put to the people and gone, what the f*** is
AndyGUEST
this? The International Rugby League are useless, aren't they?
JohnnyHOST
Yeah.
JohnnyHOST
What is it, Tory Grant? Is it still in?
JohnnyHOST
Former New South Wales Police Minister Troy Grant.
JohnnyHOST
I don't think that's him.
JohnnyHOST
I tell you what, AI's crap, innit? But yeah, I don't know what the International Rugby League do in terms of anything.
JohnnyHOST
I don't think anyone does.
PedroHOST
That all matters.
PedroHOST
But there's nothing like that with international rugby league.
PedroHOST
So there needs to – and it's, you know, FIFA – are probably one of the biggest corporations, if you want to call them that, governing bodies in the world.
PedroHOST
They're swimming in money.
PedroHOST
So they can afford putting on these massive tournaments where the International Rugby League Committee, like...
PedroHOST
I just don't know where they're going to get the funding from.
PedroHOST
The reality is you need government funding.
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PedroHOST
It could be in the off-season.
MaestroHOST
That's part of the reason Cech wasn't able to get his warm-up game.
MaestroHOST
Not that that would have... changed anything this time around probably, but it sort of feeds into that same problem that international rugby league, despite the growth, despite the added investment it's had over the last four or five years, it was neglected for so long that you have got to build it back up slowly.
MaestroHOST
I don't know.
MaestroHOST
Is forcing France out going to bring them closer? That's the question
MaestroHOST
My worry is if you exclude those teams, they fade out altogether and you just have a repackaged Pacific Championships.
MaestroHOST
No.
MaestroHOST
Because those are the teams that are getting regular international rugby league versus Lebanon, who are a unique example that have not played between the two World Cups.
MaestroHOST
That's what I mean.
Daniel McHardyHOST
Friday night, Sotonga beat Lebanon 36 points to nil.
Daniel McHardyHOST
And Michael Cheka laments no warm-up games and just a lack of International Rugby League for his side in between World Cups.
Daniel McHardyHOST
On Saturday, the cricket scores continued with Samoa top order struggling 64 for 6 against Papua New Guinea.
Daniel McHardyHOST
I'll stop that joke.
Christian WelchGUEST
So they're just so dominant, incredible team, incredible players.
Christian WelchGUEST
But there's also a bit of competitive balance there that has really opened up in the men's side of international rugby league.
Christian WelchGUEST
For the listeners out there, the way there's a base level of prize money right um for for these rugby league world cups and so say if you make three weeks uh i believe it's two and a half thousand dollars each player is entitled to and then it progresses marginally semifinals final so then it's up to the international countries to do their own individual deal with their players so the australian rugby league commission have done a deal uh equal prize money for the men and women so the women and men both get $40,000 each for their World Cup services.
Christian WelchGUEST
But this is very different to what the Samara and Tonga and Papua New Guinea can pay their players.
Poppy PennyHOST
But can you see a way that maybe it's the international body who step in here and say, we need to try and narrow this gap? Because, you know, a 78 blot win in the second round of a World Cup.
Poppy PennyHOST
Yes, it's great viewing if you're an Australian fan, but for a lot of other nations who are drawn on the Gilleroo side of the drawer in a Rugby League World Cup, you think, ah, bugger.
Christian WelchGUEST
Yeah, and this is where we get into a bit of trouble because International Rugby League, like the NRL is thriving, but International Rugby League in terms of the governing body, like this World Cup should be being played in France.
Christian WelchGUEST
and they couldn't make the numbers commercially stack up sustainably.
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