Its all a question of marketing. I didnt like the series idea at first.

But if you treat the 3 games as the SL v NRL challenge, one point for each game, and the final match also as a standalone cup then it could work nicely.

Either consecutive nights or as a triple header.

In fact start friday 3v3
saturday nines comp in the day 2v2 at night
Sunday nines finals 1v1 at night

Could be a better magic weekend.

On the SL side I would prefer Grand final winners, Hub cap and challenge cup winners selected then down on finishing position in the league.

If the aussies dont want to play ball for now the NRL winners plus invitees would still work - if it takes off we wont have a problem in future years.

And the friendlies in london and france the week before make sense too.

Do they really want to expand it, or perhaps just have more games?

We could have the World Club Challenge as it is, but also a 2nd

League Winners Trophy AND

a Cup Winners Trophy (Not sure if the Aussie's have a Cup Comp anymore).

Still 3 extra weeks, would mean the season doesn't finish until nearly December by the time the internationals are over, and some players would have played 40+ games. How would an annual Club World Championship work in an international WC year?

Well my system would give you your three extra games, without exhausting any one side, as they'd all just be one-offs for each club involved!

three extra games could be found.

We drop the exiles game, look at some clubs entering the CC a round later etc.

Think we'll have to agree to disagree on this The Exiles game does need dropping, and from next year under the new system the top 12 are entering the CC from R5