Just because a London "home" game has not been announced doesn't mean that it is not being planned.
Every year the benefits of having a season ticket get eroded. This year I gained no financial benefit, because of work commitments, and next season I probably will not bother. Our home gates are going down so I cannot for the life of me see the benefit for the club of reducing the number of games that we can go to. If we had held this game in Japan , for example, as part of an attempt to expand the game I could understand but RL in Australia doesn't need it. Perhaps if two big Australian teams came and played in London, like the NFL do, we could kick start interest down there.

What do you mean?

What's the betting season tickets will still get a 10-20% hike.
Why does it have to be a regular season game? We've already got the joke of the club challenge (and is that happening next year or are we just assuming 'Ull & us won't be in it?). Building links & promotion is all well & good (albeit the colonials won't pay 5 seconds of interest to it, I'll wager), but why is it a home game for either side at all?
If Red Hall are trying to out-do Fifa & "promote" the game, then take it to a town on the UAE border & broadcast it to the sporting bigots that ban the game for not being Union.

I got the impression that this has been driven by the Illawarra local authority and probably Wigan, rather than anything the RFL have come up with.

£584, Manchester to Sydney with Etihad (7th Feb)

Seriously considering this!

is that return flights for a week or ?

Not very well thought out this . If they had played the games two weeks earlier we could all have stopped over after the World Cup Final .

Regards , EW

Yeah return flight, think it was 2 weeks that I put in

One question: WHY?

Why not have Hull's home fixture with Wigan the week after - or is it just our club that seems to continually want to shoot itself in the foot, make the competition harder for themselves, or generally treat their fans with disdain?

I have no objections to Wigan playing Hull in a SL fixture halfway across the world, but why not in lieu of the Newcastle weekend?

My method on booking a trip includes a missus and 2 kids. £6000? Yeah, ill just stick a chunk on the credit card or squirrel away £250 a month.

I've no issue with it. I do think the club needs to make sure they do something to compensate season ticket holders for next year by either knocking the price off the ticket or offering something if a similar value (I doubt they'll offer free travel like they did for Millwall..ha).

I would presume they're being paid handsomely to go over by the NSW government. If they're saying they expect 5,000 to travel and millions put in to the economy then much like how the RFL are given funding to take Magic to cities by their local councils, we should also be looking at a tidy sum.

IL has been taking notes from this government. By that I mean take the p1ss and keep taking it until the opposition goes away.