I would love to see that happen, if not in Dubai then maybe Cape Town, South Africa.

This is the Koucash who reckons he is more Australian than Australians. He's planned on moving to Oz for a long time.

No he doesn't say what he thinks people want to hear at all now does he pmsl. You are all being played. All swooning at his feet. Don't say I didn't warn you.

$3billion? Where the hell do these estimates of Koukash's wealth come from? They seem to triple every week. The start-point for the Sunday Times rich list is £70million (Aus$125million)and he isn't on that.

Not saying he's potless, but like pretty much everything about the man it's laughably inflated by credulous hacks.

A world club 9's in Dubai would be great. It's the place to attract some money to the sport.

I'd rather money be invested in the 13man game personally

It's fine if you don't care how clean that money is, and you don't mind playing RL in 40 degree heat in slave-built stadiums.

Union 7's seem to manage. And I'm not sure RL can be too picky as to where it's money comes from.

also it has been 50-56 for the past 2 weeks.

Obviously Koukash thinks that there can be a return on money invested in the project.

But a World 9s that was the 16 NRL clubs, plus the 12 SL clubs that will be playing in 2015 would be inadequate.

You would have to have at least one more French club (Toulouse obviously) plus a PNG club (the Hunters obviously). Those two additions would bring it up to 30 clubs. You would still need two more to make it a manageable 32 clubs.

So I would propose to add the Fijian club that will join the NSW Cup in 2016 (a parallel to the PNG Hunters in the Queensland Cup), plus a third French club (from the French Elite competition). That would make 15 Australian clubs, 11 English clubs, 3 French clubs, one New Zealand club, one PNG club, and one Fijian club. Definitely international, though skewed towards two nations.

The number 32 is important so you can have it divided into 8 pools of 4, with the top 2 in each pool going into the round of 16, followed by quarter finals, semi-finals and a final.

I don't know if such a competition could be squeezed into 2 days. If not then have it over three days.

As for the weather, I understand that February in Dubai is not so hot. But I will stand to be corrected on that matter.

Its fine for short periods, i guess it depends what time of year the event takes place.

Its very unusual that the temp goes above 35 degrees between October to March and thats perfect weather.

Also Dubai has a huge expat population and all rugby league gets shown live here so there is a demand for it.

you are correct some afternoons it does get a bit chilly that time of year.