Temperature starts to drop a bit in Dubai from November and as they are 3 hours ahead British TV would want our games staged at night anyway.

I'm in favour of it if they can prove they will invest the cash and give us a big cash advance for staging it.

If not my more conservative choice would be England and France as joint hosts. Same format as 2013 except have France host games instead of Wales.

Would be a great opportunity to get wealthy backers interested in the game.

Hooray for South Asian slave labour!

If RL goes for this it can never take the moral high ground about anything, ever. It'd be like touring apartheid South Africa. The UAE is rotten top to bottom.

There is a vast amount of money and potential sponsorship to go for in the Emirates. Personally I think it is flattering they are interested. They have a track record of Formula 1, Tennis, Golf, and other events run successfully. I have seen their football stadia and they are up to the task. If they weren't the Emeratis would make them fit, that's how they do business. As already said, the climate shouldn't be a problem in November December or January, very pleasant in the evenings in my experience. All very positive in my view view, but there is one fatal flaw.
Neither Dubai nor Abu Dhabi is on the M62

It will be held in England with the odd token game in Fra/Wales as per normal. I can't believe anyone genuinely thinks that any of these countries are serious about hosting it, or that anyone in the RLIF wants a RLWC played in front of near-empty stadiums. I'm from Wales and the RLWC gets enough stick here for having so many 'heritage' (plastic) teams pad it out, to have that and empty stadiums would kill any of the strides made at the last/next WC.

Well we can't have it in Australia because of the way the Aboriginal population is treated. Surely we can't have it in the UK, a state that participates in illegal wars in the Middle East, causing thousands of innocent civilian deaths.

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Thanks for posting that, very interesting. If I'm over there at the end of October I will be attending

A great opportunity for the sport.

250,000 Aus/NZ/UK ex-pats in the country. Easy(ish) to fly to from both Europe and Aus. Potential of significant investment. Give RL a greater profile, and probably help us shake the cheap, working class image off somewhat.

I'm all for it. Why not.

May I suggest to all those advocating uae as a great world cup option simply on the back of there being loads of rich blokes there, have you considered applying for a job at Fifa? You'd probably enjoy it there.

I think this is the key point. The fact that our sport is even on their radar is a great thing.

I agree that November in Dubai is going to be a lot nicer than November in Hull and if they are willing to put the money up front to guarantee it is a financial success, we should go for it.

You would struggle to keep me away.

Been to watch the HSBC 7's in dubai an i can tell you one thing you most certainly are allowed to drink in the stadiums, plenty of leathered people falling about, think what they do as they cant serve alcohol is sell you a cooler which happens to contain 4 cans of your poison.

Need some proper stadiums there, the 7's was out in the desert in a makeshift building with stands and not real seating apart from the astro turf on the levels, that being said the atmosphere was very good but that may have been due to the number of international people there, it does get hot though.