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Thats good news for rugby league to have other countries announcing teams,making a bigger world cup will help get more people interested and make our game bigger!!

Unfortunately TT, the RLIF/RLEF have determined that Canada did not meet the criteria to play in the World Cup so we will have to wait until 2017 for the opportunity.

maybe due to the fact that their is,nt as much money in this sport as their is in others to fundate them into the world cup,

also being a low income sport will be difficult to price for fans to be able to even watch the games on tv never mind go,i duno one this 1.

It's due to the fact that they didn't have a large enough domestic competition to meet the criteria and enter the qualifiers. They do now but the fixtures and competing nations have already been decided. It's probably the right decision, and if the domestic competition continues to grow then they should have a good shot at qualification in 2017.

nice,would like to see more countries getting involved as it would be more fun for the fans!!

I think they need to change the criteria with regards to domestic competitions. It's all well and good allowing you in with 4 teams, however Italy, for example, have a great chance to qualify, and their domestic league is only three weeks long!

u want countries like japan and Sweden, Norway etc,that would be mint!!

its a difficult one - it would be great to use the 2013 RLWC as a means to entice players away from Union here, but perhaps 2017 is a better long term goal...

Yeah at least then it gives time to plan ahead.

Poaching RU players on a short term basis is not something that any RL nation should be looking at doing.

Headhunter

Fair enough, why don't you come here and try and recruit a few people off the street and see if they want to start playing rugby instead? Or how about going into some of the schools here? I am sure you will find lots of people and kids queuing up to find out more about this sport they have never heard of, after all they don't have ice hockey, Canadian football, soccer, basketball, baseball, American football to play instead do they?

To describe Canada as a "rugby nation" is pushing it just a bit, don't you think (even RU never mind league)? The phrase beggars can't be choosers springs to mind. No-one said anything about a short term basis, the hope would be that having go themselves into playing league with the carrot of the World Cup to promote and publicize the game, would persuade them to throw their lot in with league on a long term basis.

You are apparently from South Wales and have a USARL avatar so one would think you would know something about the difficulties and realities of expansion in foreign parts. But Canada may as well be on the moon as far as being comparable to South Wales is concerned. Tell you what, why don't you go and try encouraging a few kids to play curling in Ebbw Vale and see what joy you have....