Quote: Dropkick Murphy "I don't really see the point of the WCS even though our win over Brisbane was obviously a good night. It was still just a glamour friendly and was pretty meaningless really. The WCC should be compulsory though. That's a showpiece fixture.'"
The only way the Australians will agree to making it compulsory is to up the prize pool. I don't know what the current World Club Series prize pool is, but it's probably telling that it's not an easy figure to find on Google.
If all we can offer the NRL clubs in exchange for 40+hrs of flying is a split of gate receipts from a 15,000-20,000 attendance and a split of the case from whatever two-bob sponsor we can find, I don't blame them for being massively enthused.