The bitterness on here is neither edifying nor accurately directed.

Neither Wigan nor Saints deserve to be in the World Club Series. But at the start of the season the RFL made it clear that if one club won the double then the Grand Final losers would be included. They also made it quite clear that if one club won the treble then they, the RFL, would choose the third team to take part. All the clubs and their fans knew this before the season started.

If three different clubs had won the three pieces of silverware on offer then unless those clubs included Wigan and Saints, then Wigan and Saints wouldn't have been included.

If Huddersfield had won one piece of silverware on offer then they would have automatically been included. That the RFL haven't chosen Huddersfield on this occasion may well be because last season the club wasn't prepared or couldn't afford to stump up the bond that was in operation last year. I am sure all the clubs will have been made aware of the RFL's reasoning behind choosing Saints. But the inclusion of Saints is as disconnected to the first choice criteria as the inclusion of Wigan is because the first choice of the RFL and the clubs was for the winners of the silverware to be involved just as the winners of the silverware from down under are involved.

Maybe next season Huddersfield will win silverware and thus be automatically included in the World Club Series. In the meantime, don't berate Saints or Saints' fans for a decision which will have had nothing to do with them. The RFL had to choose a third club because Leeds did the treble. They chose one.

Incidentally, there was no bond this year. Blake Solly confirmed that on Twitter.

Very commendable too Meast, as I have said your support does you credit, I would say you are very well suited to YOUR club, but Mr Davy wants my money just as much as yours, Yours is safely in the coffers, and will be whatever the teams fortunes.
Those couple of pieces of silverware you dismiss as no more than something it would be nice to win, could put 2/3 thousand people on the gates, which is what I thought the aim was, and the brutal truth is that it makes no difference whether those fans are New fans. or were among the 300, Their money is worth the same.

You say, don't lets do anything that puts YOUR club in jeopardy, The message that comes out of the club constantly, is that the club IS in jeopardy and can't survive unless the fan base increases, So what's the solution , watch the numbers decline, keep pleading for people to go watch, and Wait and see, Seems to me your idea is no better than mine, and a lot less exiting.

It's easy enough to Say look where Bradford are now, See what their spending has done for them, Well Bradford are now where Huddersfield have been for the biggest part of the last 60 years, so not a lot to crow about really, The difference is that they have had a lot of great years, they have lifted a lot of these Trophies, that mean so little to you.

Just MO but I would bet on them being back, and I reckon they would be over the Moon to have those 20.000 glory supporters again, and the Trophies as well. If or when that happens and the Bulls shirts once again appear all over Huddersfield, that just like before will be the Bulls fault for poaching our fans.

If the Giants can't capitalise on the fact that . Bradford, Wakey and Halifax are at this time , Shall we say lesser clubs, then they will never make it

or the one ken davy has set out instead

Well said.

And do you believe hand on heart that Leeds got the LLS and GF on merit, or more that it was gifted to you by the officials leaned on by the RFL. Penalties given and not given benefitted Leeds at Huddersfield, and that is not just said by me but by journalists and pundits alike (can`t all be wrong ). And the same with the GF with McGuire`s knock on. Also pulled to bits by the journos, cost Wigan.
Going further back when Leeds were at our place earlier in the season, Huddersfield were leading 24-22 and Leeds were attacking the Huddersfield line, last play the ball, and he penalises Huddersfield for going early. But replaying the incident all Huddersfield players were feet on the line when the ball was played. (another stitch up ) of course Leeds leveled at 24 - 24. Is it all just luck ????
So would you say that Leeds are well in front of us as you just scraped the game at your place late on. I know you skinned us in the CC as we did not get off the bus (same at Wigan).
But overall there is nowt in us games could go either way.

I don't think there is an awful lot between the two teams, but what is missing from the Huddersfield team is clearly pretty important. The bit about a conspiracy is cringeworthy and just plain wrong.