Are you suggesting Melbourne didn't take it seriously - what would the score have been if they had?

Would you have been happy if the game had been played here - not sure you ever complained about the WCC in the past

Personally I enjoyed seeing Leeds, Wigan and Hull on the tv playing Aussie clubs. It just looked and felt more exciting than watching the majority of uk only games.
I actually enjoyed the WCC game more than the first 2 League games. And this weeks TV games just felt small time again.

I suspect it’ll happen again next year in different combinations. With Hull and Wigan seeming to go better in the 2nd week having had a week to acclimatise you might get a similar thing where teams try a league game before playing an Aussie friendly or wcc game. Perhaps Leeds go closer if they had played a warm up game the week before in Aus to acclimatise better?

I agree with others that Leeds had to go as English Champions and so we bloomin should. We’ve hosted for so many years. There looked a decent crowd and Melbourne certainly looked to be taking it seriously despite the suggestion they wouldn’t. The players did plenty of PR stuff and hopefully raised awareness of the Rhinos and Leeds itself.

As for the “game causing injuries and we wouldn’t have them if we hadn’t gone as we’d have been resting up” I assume we’d have had a league game if not going over there so we could well have had injuries from that anyway so I think it’s not the right point with all the players involved. Moon might not have played I suppose but Ward, Cuthbo and Walker would have and could have got injured as could anyone else.

Jeez peoples mentalities. Maybe Leeds should pull out of Super League just play Hunslet, Stanningley and Milford and Oulton. We don't want to test ourselves after all.

The trip to Melbourne was superb. All the players I spoke to after the game said it had been an amazing week one they would want to do regularly. The young players in the squad will benefit from it greatly.

It's amazing how the people that moan about the quality of SL then moan when we play superior opposition. What the hell do people want???

Wonder why football has Champions League??? To improve you have to play the best.

Well said Dan.

We need more games against the nrl teams. Would love to see Leeds go back down under again next year.

Little Loiners for you - players should have to forgo a trip of a lifetime because to some on here a game against Widnes is far more important - some on here need to broaden their mindset.

No, i am saying they don't really care for the concept which they proved by choosing a testimonial over the WCC date.at that point, my interest in the event had waned too.

A trip in which we were already hampered by injuries to the point it was damage limitation and then return to UK with two more key players on the treatment table all for a glorified friendly half way round the world.

I will add, i am not against the WCC. Something needs doing about the planning though. They need to find a way to make it right after both GF's, if that means making our GF the same weekend as NRL or the week before then do it. Play the WCC in whichever country is hosting a tour that particular year. I remember it happened a few times years ago when Canberra came over to play Widnes right after and i think Brisbane,Penrith and maybe Manly did the same so why not now?

I've not really been bothered about it for a while now because for all the talk about raising the profile of the game over here, its own fans would then make excuses for the NRL team when a SL team won and do their best to downplay the win.

With the SC getting wider and wider between the 2 competitions it's become less and less relevant to play this game.

We have no chance to pull out of league games, we had a choice not to do this game.

The league is our bread and butter. If we end up outside the top 4 I wonder how many of the same posters who were pro-WCC will be pointing the finger at the squad saying players X, Y and Z need to be let go.

And it is largely the timing that I really disliked. You can say it's a chance to test themselves, but flying over to Aus the day after a league game and landing less than a week before the game, only taking 19 players, then letting the Aussies take the mick with the late ref change. That's not a proper test that's just dumb. I'm not really fussed about it but if you want to go over there for games do it right. I'd also argue the usual line "they'll have learnt loads".....I don't think you do in one single game and whatever they do learn will be offset by not playing that level of opposition again for a quite a long time.

So you want to grow the relevance/profile of SL but are happy if the top teams throw several games.

No Hall and Briscoe now

Golding
Newman
Watkins
Keinhorst
Handley
Sutcliffe
Myler
JJB
Parcell
Singleton
Walters
Delaney
Ormondroyd

Dwyer
Oledzki
Garbutt
Smith

Would love to get a win today.