Just booked for myself and the wife via Abu Dhabi and Melbourne going on 7th and returning two weeks later.

Jesus. Can I? Can't I?
I'm seriously thinking about saving for the first time in my life. A scary thought!

I'll go for,
1, Ripping the fans off.
2, Our lethargic start to 2018 is down to the unneccesary travelling.
3, They could catch malaria from a wallabie.

We had a mini tour of oz back in the mid 80's. It was a complete disaster I think

Hope the players are gonna come out on the p!ss with us if were gonna make the effort.

Be good if the Illawarra tourist board allocate areas of the city to each club, so they really push Hull FC to the people in the West of Wollongong for example to get a bit of rivalry in the stadium

Brilliant exposure for the club, yeh we might get a bit jet-lagged and suffer slightly, but the rewards in growing the clubs brand are much bigger

I dont think it will affect the players too much, unless we are in the World Club Challenge as that will give us a week off

This is great news for the club, very prestigious. It should give the club plenty of publicity.

Very unlikely that I'll be going with the cost and with work commitments but I'm sure there'll be lots travelling over not to mention the expat community out there.

Incredible times. Sounds like the 2018 shirt will be a winner as well..

not only are you obsessed but I'm not as narrow minded as you clearly.

it's a great idea, if NSW state gov+TV are funding some/all of it then the incentive is there to play. Wigan will see it as part of expanding their global brand and as the 'home' team are likely to be compensated for that more than we are. Still, it's an opportunity for one of the best supported teams in SL to make the most of it from a marketing POV.

Taking the academy as mentioned above would be okay if they can fund themselves to go, otherwise I'd expect that there's limited finances to send/accommodate people from each team, so i wouldn't expect to see anyone except the necessaries plus a few AN other's.

This is massively different to taking your team for a jolly in tenerife and calling it a winter training camp which I do/did object to and gave reasons why.

Sounds like? Where have you heard that sound?

i see the virtual terrace regulars are raising the bar to new levels of jealousy and negativity over this - impressive stuff

Amazing and superb. I almost certainly won't be able to go though but I think it is immense. Will be so jealous of those that can make it