One of the best games of RL was Wigan beating Brisbane in aus to win the World Club challenge. Giving the Aussies a dicking in their own backyard. Great stuff.

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Seems some folk on the VT would like a multi-team World Cub Challenge Comp. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=474894&p=15633814#p15633814 I say, you want to appear in the WCC Final, you try and win SL first.

Seems some folk on the VT would like a multi-team World Cub Challenge Comp. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=474894&p=15633814#p15633814 I say, you want to appear in the WCC Final, you try and win SL first.

The aussies don't usually want the wcc at home because the rugby leauge loving public over there don't consider it as a serious game more of a pre season friendly and they aren't confident they can make a game over there pay.
Look at the australia v papa new guinea game today small crowd as the public treated it as a warm up game
Latics home crowds this sason are around the 12000 mark not the 9500 suggested by the earlier poster who has probbably never seen them play at home,althought what the latics attndances have to do with the wcc god only knows,it will be a sunday game with a 6pm kick off

Number of WCC finals in Australia - 1.
Attendance - 54,220

Next.

I'm pretty sure if Wigan went over again it could be an even bigger attendance, especially against Brisbane or one of the other big clubs.

These Shatics fans aint got a clue

Typical reasoned response from you orrell lad
The game in brisbane was 16 years ago,if the aussies were so in love with the wcc why hasn't on been held there since,rightly or wrongly the aussie public believe the english game to be highly inferior to theirs,don't take my word for it though go and check out various aussie rugby leauge forums and you'll soon get the impression I get,the view our game as a sort of concert hall joke

When we went over to Brisbane it was before summer rugby here so we'd finished our season and the Broncos were in the middle of theirs.
Since we went to summer rugby it is a pre season for them and our club are usually only into their 2nd or 3rd game of the season.

Also when we were in winter rugby although we couldn't win a series against the Aussies in a 3 match series but so often it was 2-1 to the green and golds. Since we are now all full time clubs with SL we are not losing 2-1 but something like 14 or 15-1. The Aussie public won't take us seriously until we can at least give them a game and start beating them frequently. We now seem further away from that than ever. After our hapless display v the Kiwis no wonder they think RL in this country is a joke.
On the BBC stats England had 33 missed tackles and there was a 62% completion rate. How can we ask to be taken seriously with stats like that? Those players don't play that badly for their clubs but they often do for their country.

Wigan could have done with going down under to play them at SFS. A win would have really put them on the back foot. A win here and all their excuses come out.

Are you stupid? You've just been told the only WCC final held in Aus so far drew over 50k. Nobody cares what some bitter Latics fan thinks

For one I'm not bitter,and you've just been given perfectley good reasons why the game won't be in australia and embraced by the australian public,and why do you feel the need to keep banging on about the latics if you don't care about them,argue the point in question which is why despite attracting a 50k plus crowd in 1994 the wcc has not been played over there since

[iI just can't see the point of this.
The fact is that the aussies have not wanted this competition there until now.
Suddenly a Wigan win and they know they will get a crowd to turn up for the game.

Well its a simple one.

Yes, it would be a lot fairer if it was held down there every other year.
Any reasonable person would agree with that.

But we will start that next year thank you very much.
They should not get to pick and choose when they fancy having the game and when they cant be bothered.

how the hell these convicts ever call us whingers is beyond me.
all they ever want to do is change rules and move goal posts to suit themselves.[/i

The game will be at the DW ON 27.02.11