like i said, something needs to be said officially by the club about this... if its as simple as we didnt want to pay the money and compete then fair enough but would be nice to let the fans know how the hell things seemed to have changed!

I hope this is not true and just one of those forum rumours. I feel the club need to state if they had the opportunity to enter but turned it down or not?

Souths would murder us. Think positive - not participating means we don't have to watch a 60 point pumping from a team that's barely out of first gear...

You wouldn't play Souths

GF Winner (Wigan) v Rabbits
GF Loser Saints) v Bulldogs
Wire v Broncos

newtown jets would probably murder most super league teams never mind souths!

No but we would most certainly get pumped!

from what i understand the 2 teams making up the numbers have to put up a bond of £175,000 for the oz coming over.as 3rd in the league you were offered it and turned it down,it then went to wire who snapped it up.cant blame the rfl.

Don't think anyone is blaming the RFL, more a case of accusing our club of lacking ambition for not stumping up the cash to play a glorified friendly !!.

Can't say personally i'm too bothered, i'm sure £175,000 will come in more useful in the long run !

did the club turn it down though?? would be nice to know, or did the rfl move the goal posts to suit them...

175k though... can get a very good player on a 2yr contract for that!

A bond? Any details on the conditions?

If you ask me it's a silly idea anyway. I was intrigued by the headline "World Club Challenge to be expanded." But then it turns out that it isn't being expanded, in that the two new games are not actually part of the WCC, and are in fact just a pair of pre-season friendlies, happening after the season starts, paying a massive wedge of cash for the privilege.

As for selection criteria, it seems a bit of a shambles. It would have been simpler to say the places went to the two Grand Finalists and the CC winners. Only since we finally managed to win the CC this year, I'm not sure I'd be that keen. The concept gets less exciting the longer I think about it.

I guess the Giants already spend the full cap, so paying a player with the £175k isn't an option, but I doubt there are many clubs who would sniff at £175k to spend on infrastructure.

the whole thing is a joke, it's like charging a Burger stall £175k to be outside in the car park at a major final. Better off out of it, if Lancashire want a vanity project, leave them to it. (especially a vanity project organised by Hetherington)

"especially a vanity project organised by Hetherington"

and Moran

After losing to cats and reading the First Utility web site don't think we were ever in the shuffle for the World Cup series. When we lost to Cats we were out of the reckoning, Wire and Cats were in front of us. Says on the First Utility website "Super League will be represented by the 2014 Grand Finalists, plus the third highest ranked team from the Northern Hemisphere competition" meaning play offs, as I understand it, was Wire then Cats as they reached the semis then us and Leeds.

depends which way you look at it, everyone presumed it was giants who were the 3rd ranked team... i think we were asked and because we were unsure if we wanted to pay the 175k then the rfl moved to posts to suit them and gave it warrington

nothing from the club on it, which would help clear things up but hey