the WCC makes money, is attractive to TV companies and sponsors, gets relatively large attendances and for RL it has huge visibility. I understand why some fans dont like it.

Stadium doesn't come into it. I've seen Cas Tigers play Australia, New Zealand and in the ill-fated WCC against Hunter Mariners and Perth Reds - all at Wheldon Road.

I'm "sacking it off" because I see it for what it is. A money making gimmick to get an extra £30 from the paying customer in a series of games the aussies regard as a simple trail game.

Er you do understand that fans are willing to pay to watch the WCC right. I traveled from London to watch Leeds play north Queensland.

Sorry but we have fans here who enjoy the WCC and are happy to pay to watch it and you think it's a good idea to just get rid of it completely. If this was a concept that had fans staying away I could see your argument but at the moment your argument is terribly weak.

Then let's add the projects that the Australian teams take part in with the kids in the week before the game. All of this is beneficial.

How about we ditch the challenge cup? I mean here we have a competition that fans clearly stay away from. Seems to me that fans are not interested in paying for tickets to watch challenge cup games.

Don't worry if your team has that attitude you won't be parting with £30 any time soon and if they manage to get involved I hope that you are sat in the Boot Room moaning the futility of it all.......on your own

Melbourne officially decline invitation. Melbourne Storm reject 2017 World Club Series invite - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/37606262 Interesting that i read today that Wigan had already agreed to play against Brisbane at Suncorp stadium if they had lost on Saturday.

Melbourne officially decline invitation. Melbourne Storm reject 2017 World Club Series invite - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/37606262 Interesting that i read today that Wigan had already agreed to play against Brisbane at Suncorp stadium if they had lost on Saturday.

Quote kobashi="kobashi"Melbourne officially decline invitation. Melbourne Storm reject 2017 World Club Series invite - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/37606262 Interesting that i read today that Wigan had already agreed to play against Brisbane at Suncorp stadium if they had lost on Saturday.'" And why wouldn't you ? What a great fixture for the staff and players, even for Brisbane !

Quote kobashi="kobashi"Melbourne officially decline invitation. Melbourne Storm reject 2017 World Club Series invite - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/37606262 Interesting that i read today that Wigan had already agreed to play against Brisbane at Suncorp stadium if they had lost on Saturday.'" And why wouldn't you ? What a great fixture for the staff and players, even for Brisbane !

Can anyone really blame them? Concept is fine, it's the logistics. If we want to keep this going we're going to have to play more of the games in Aus.

Only Wigan would generate sufficient interest from fans in Australia for it to be financially viable there.

It seems more NRL clubs are not keen on the World Club series - The World club challenge is a genuine meaningful game even to the Aussies these days but rightly I agree the other games have very little meaning - I remember Sky sports billing it Australia V England - If thats the case just have an Australia v England game

This is not a negative post - Far from it I would love to see a major International club comp, I think it would be great if it was done as a major comp - But what we had this year was a major game, with two Trial matches as the Aussies put it and simply there not wrong

WCC - Cronnula V Wigan or Wigan V Cronulla will be good either way for me

Spot on. It took a while for the Aussies to take the main game seriously again, why we thought that 2 extra teams would always be up for games that had nothing to win on the line I don't know. Problem we/the game has with doing anything along the lines of an international club competition or even internationals is that the only proper opposition we can face is from the other side of the world and logistically I can understand why Aussie clubs don't want to come here as they're trying to prepare for their season.

Whats the purpose of the WCC? The Aussies are in pre season training, the UK teams usually 2-4 games in. Both with different sets of players.

I'm struggling with the intent particularly the 6 team format. Maybe both GF winners playing each other 2 weeks after there respective finals might be the way forward.(I recognise the NRL final is a week earlier than ours!)

Brisbane have said they will play if asked and have no problem traveling to the UK