I think their team selection suggested they very much did care for the concept - they fielded virtually their strongset side including the best player in world.

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Short term losses for long term gains. The strength of the teams playing our competition certainly arent going to improve by not taking these opportunities.

Any evidence that they'll be long term gain or is that just a buzz phrase people use to defend this game?

How long have we been playing WCC's now and we've increased it to more games/teams in the last few years but is the standard of SL improved from 10/15 years ago? No because the issues with SL aren't and won't be fixed by one game against an NRL team.

I'd love to win the EuroMillions, unlikely to happen though.

No they wont, but then i didnt claim that to be the case. Keeping these games on the calendar (for me) are part of where the game should be heading.

Of course they were going to play their strongest team, if they had played the virtual reserves when playing at home and Leeds had gone to so much trouble to travel during our season it would have been the complete death knell to the WCC.

JJB early in his career missed a lot of games through injury , but he's making up for it now bless his heart. Would love a win today , but its not just today its going to be awhile before we are near full strength

It's trying to run before you can walk. If you can't sort out your week in week out competition then 1 game a year vs the NRL is pointless.

It was always going to be tough today, hopefully we get some back for next week and move on

Our annual loss to Widnes away. Does the owner have some dodgy pictures of Gary or summit.

You guys looked goosed. Good luck for the rest of the season tho!

Positives - Thought there was plenty of effort, just not much class. Golding, Garbutt, Singleton and Ormanroyd (going forward only) were decent - And for all the stick he gets, I thought Walters really put himself about.

Negatives - Zero creativity (We had enough good ball in the first half to put them to bed). The halves were very poor, and we looked like a team who'd not played together before - We certainly looked like a team who'd missed some field work in training this week. Poor/no line running, poor options taken, awful kicking game and just general poor handling. Also thought Parcell had a rare poor game - stifled the attack and got caught with the ball in their 20 numerous times. And we made Inu look like a superstar.

Not the reason we lost, but Hicks appears to have a problem with our wrestle (and no problem with Widnes), pinged us plenty of times when I thought it'd actually been a quick PTB.

A game to write off and start a fresh again this week, hopefully with some troops back.

Exactly my thoughts too Charlie after all It was always going to be a damage limitation exercise today especially after our jaunt to OZ

We've lost there with far better sides than we fielded today so IMO we move on to next week and hope we get some bodies back

Was there last try definately a knock on? The highlights on the club website look inconclusive. Certainly looked it from behind the sticks.

I actually like the sound of what BM is saying this year - I thought he was right after the WCC, and it was good to hear him disappointed even with a weakened team.

Non-use of a sub although not material in that game is still poor. If you can't trust any player in your 17 to do a few minutes then you should get rid of them from your squad altogether.