The former Leeds forward is staying on Down Under to prepare for a new life with Wests Tigers, with whom he has agreed a three-year contract, and believes the national team could only benefit from having more players exposed to the intensity of the NRL.

Ellis, who on Monday was named as one of two international second rows of the year, also launched a vehement defence of the Carnegie World Club Challenge and dismissed suggestions that England's miserable showing in the World Cup had made the tournament meaningless.

"It would be a great idea for more English players to come over and experience the NRL," said Ellis. "It is the best club competition in the world, it has the best players and it wouldn't do any harm to send some good youngsters over.

"Leeds have forged close links with South Sydney and that's one window of opportunity that needs to be used."

Ellis stood tall throughout the World Cup and will start his new life with the respect of many of the players he will play with and against, a situation which does not apply to many of his England team-mates.

England's failure to reach the final or beat either New Zealand or Australia in qualifying has strengthened the view that Super League is a pale imitation of the NRL but Ellis is keen to disprove that theory.

"People say I will be representing England in the NRL next year and in many ways I am happy to take on that challenge and hopefully do what Adrian Morley did during his time at Sydney Roosters," he said.

"He won back a lot of respect for the English game and if I can be as successful as he was I'll be very happy.

"This was an opportunity to showpiece Super League and show what a great competition it is but unfortunately we didn't do it justice.

"It hurts me to say it but we were a little bit embarrassed by the way we played.

"All the lads who pulled on an England shirt are very proud. You look at them on paper and every one of them was successful with their Super League club, they played well all year and deserved to be in the team but we just couldn't turn it on.

"We know we are a lot better than we have shown to the world.

"There will be a lot of people who don't watch much of the sport who will claim it's vastly inferior to the NRL but that's not the case. It's not far off at all.

"There is a lot of good, young talent in Super League but we need to produce more of them if we are going to have the depth we've been searching for all these years."

Meanwhile three Super League officials will be involved in the World Cup final in Brisbane.

Keighley-based referee Ashley Klein has beaten referee of the year Tony Archer to the biggest match of the season and will be assisted by Steve Ganson, the video referee.

James Child, a surveyor with Leeds City Council, has been named as one of the touch-judges.