Personally I'm very disappointed that there won't be a game in South Yorkshire - Sheffield City Council, Sheffield Eagles and Sheffield United lobbied hard to get a game. They'd have done a great job, too.

Those criticising the inclusion of Bristol are wide of the mark, though. The city's location - i.e close to Wales - makes it ideal to host a game from the group containing Wales. Plus, there has been loads of development work down here of late - schools coaching, new junior clubs, RLC success and the like. I wouldn't expect an enormous crowd, but there's potential for a decent crowd (anything around 5,000 for a match containing two small teams would be excellent). Ashton Gate was included in Bristol's bid but was seen as too big, so the Memorial Ground it is.

Just off to the Bristol host city launch event at the MEM - can't wait for 2013!

Leeds is only ten miles further from Doncaster than Sheffield is. You can get to leeds on the train from doncaster in about 40mins, compared to about 30mins to sheffield. Is all this actually because you cant travel an extra ten minutes on the train? You are actually complaining that the entire nation of Ireland got a game and that means you need to spend an extra 10minutes on a train?

But just imagine how much fuel that would cost!

Did the game anywhere in the UK get much of a boost from that particular World Cup? For once I have faith in the RFL to learn from past mistakes.

Did areas have to put in a bid for games in that particular World Cup? Or did the RFL (old regime) just dump games at grounds and expect things to happen?

Poor argument.