Thought the atmosphere was great on Saturday , feel really positive about this year, especially with the new signings . Hope we don't get too many injuries and keep things going against hull

If the NRL was prepared to begin a week or two earlier, a weekend could be put aside later in the (our) summer to have a big event, along the lines of (and instead of) Magic Weekend, but involving Aussie teams against SL ones - maybe not all of them, perhaps the top 8 from SL against whichever 8 NRL sides are up for it. Saturday/Sunday, Old Trafford or Etihad or Elland Road or wherever, May bank holiday weekend, four games each day. Would be great - staged alternate years Northern and Southern hemispheres. Pipe-dream though, I'm sure.

Your average NRL fan is foaming at the mouth at playing just 1 game against the vastly inferior SL, risking injury and burn out and most of all the lack of opportunity for them to follow their team on the other side of the planet.

Perth needs a rugby team too and this WCS just ruins it all blah blah blah.

Perth has been tried before. It's ARL territory. You of all of us know how difficult it has been in London.

Being Devil's Advocate for a moment, put yourself in the position of an Aussie fan concerning all this WCS business..... Its the equivalent of a challenge between the Scottish Premier League and English Premier League in football - You would have the Scottish fans foaming at the mouth at the chance to stick one up their superior rival, whilst also getting the chance to finally see some decent quality footballers parading their stuff in Scotland... The English fans though would be simply shrugging their shoulders and asking what's the point.

Its the same for the Aussies with this - What exactly is in it for them?..... The truth is, we need this whole thing a lot more than the Aussies do and so, to a certain extent, I can understand their reluctance to any expansion of this.

Personally, I think it was a roaring success, with everybody involved getting something positive from the whole thing - The Aussie sides got a decent, competitive hit out, the English teams got valuable experience of some high quality, intense rugby, and the fans got to see some decent rugby.

Fans sat at home in Sydney though quite possibly just shrugged their shoulders and asked what's the point....

Why cant we just go with Great Britain v Australia/New Zealand series at a given point between Feb and Nov each with alternate home advantage?