We'll find next season hard enough.

A mid-season trip to Australia won't help that. We'll see. Not really bothered either way but perhaps play it pre-season if we have to go there? Late Jan/Early Feb?

[i"David is having a meeting with the NRL this week so we should know more after that. If it comes down to finances, I think the game would make more money here as we could get 80,000 at ANZ Stadium or 50,000 at Suncorp Stadium."[/i

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Delusional? Every country must have a call me Dave.

Home, Headingley Stadium apparently, due to LUFC being at home on the required date.

Lets hope we don't have a big freeze,would be a PA disaster if the game couldn't go ahead.

Agree it won't help our season, but it won't be mid season? Usually held at the start. Personally would prefer the game to be here for selfish reason that I could go, but it would be cracking for the lads to go

In theory a trip to Australia for the WCC sounds like the trip of a lifetime, but for how many people? In such hard economical times it would be a trip for the few lucky ones while the majority sit at home drinking a can of Fosters to get in the spirit. If it's all about winning the game bring on a cold,wet,squally night in Leeds. I'm only bothered about the silverware and the kudos that comes with being world Champions.

i still think the game will be at elland rd and if leeds are at home the game will be played on the sunday,its been done before !

I hope not, that Sunday involved me staggering around town at 2am then in the cop-shop til 5am to give a statement about my mate being mugged... I had work at 8

imagine the kudos of going to Australia and beating them in their own backyard, in giving them every advantage and still taking the silverware from them...........It would be talked of for years.

These boys deserve the chance to do it, the opportunity to cement their legacy. They have earned it.

HEADINGLEY is set to host next season's World Club Challenge despite attempts to take it to Australia. www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... lenge.html

HEADINGLEY is set to host next season's World Club Challenge despite attempts to take it to Australia. www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... lenge.html

Great idea. Just a shame there won't be a shiny new Southstand to celebrate it. Mind you, if it's held at HQ it would be a fitting end to the present structures tenure that the greatest ever side become WCC in her final season.

Why would it be on a saturday?

I've seen my share of miracles involving Leeds this year, it would be greedy to expect another by Leeds going into the Lions Den at Sydney and returning as newly crowned World Champions. It would certainly send the clubs profile through the roof if they somehow pulled it off, but imagine if we were on the end of a right tonking,which is a distinct possibility. As you can tell i'm not a gambling man, and the thought of the anti-Leeds brigade sharpening their knives as leeds boarded the plane to Oz would mean many sleepless nights. A packed Headingley stadium (according to some reports) would be an ideal scenario for me, and a massive advantage for the team. A capacity crowd on a winters evening would generate an incredible atmosphere, my spine is tingling just thinking about it !

Headingley Carnegie Stadium on the 17th February 2012.

Saints having a Jim Bowen moment.....'Here's what you could've won'. www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/m ... 6197195647

Saints having a Jim Bowen moment.....'Here's what you could've won'. www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/m ... 6197195647