Doesn't seem to be much promotion of these two games, it's as though the journalists don,t know about it.

Are we going to see the great divide again between the two comps.

Not as many people interested in the WCC series as there used to be. Same teams every year, same thumpings, not taken seriously be our NRL counterparts. In this piece here www.canberratimes.com.au/rugby-l ... ud1an.html it states "Ian Lenagan told reporters on Tuesday he had already held discussions about Warrington and Wigan opening the 2018 Super League season at an Australian stadium." Why do we even bother ?

Not as many people interested in the WCC series as there used to be. Same teams every year, same thumpings, not taken seriously be our NRL counterparts. In this piece here www.canberratimes.com.au/rugby-l ... ud1an.html it states "Ian Lenagan told reporters on Tuesday he had already held discussions about Warrington and Wigan opening the 2018 Super League season at an Australian stadium." Why do we even bother ?

Quote Tigerade="Tigerade"Not as many people interested in the WCC series as there used to be. Same teams every year, same thumpings, not taken seriously be our NRL counterparts. In this piece here www.canberratimes.com.au/rugby-l ... ud1an.html it states "Ian Lenagan told reporters on Tuesday he had already held discussions about Warrington and Wigan opening the 2018 Super League season at an Australian stadium." Why do we even bother ?'" When you say 'why do we even bother' do you mean big Nige with his RU scarf to promote the game? Nah, let's leave it to the big clubs, the forward thinking ones. The ones who have for years tried to promote the game outside its own backyard. Or the clubs could just sit there, stagnate and hope people will still turn up weekly. I do wish sometimes that Maurice Lindsay had been twenty years younger!

Quote Tigerade="Tigerade"Not as many people interested in the WCC series as there used to be. Same teams every year, same thumpings, not taken seriously be our NRL counterparts. In this piece here www.canberratimes.com.au/rugby-l ... ud1an.html it states "Ian Lenagan told reporters on Tuesday he had already held discussions about Warrington and Wigan opening the 2018 Super League season at an Australian stadium." Why do we even bother ?'" When you say 'why do we even bother' do you mean big Nige with his RU scarf to promote the game? Nah, let's leave it to the big clubs, the forward thinking ones. The ones who have for years tried to promote the game outside its own backyard. Or the clubs could just sit there, stagnate and hope people will still turn up weekly. I do wish sometimes that Maurice Lindsay had been twenty years younger!

I,ve been calling for another "Uncle Mo" for quite a few years now, some practical visionary who can see beyond Red Hall. The world club series has lost its profile intentions.

nope not Wigan v Warrington should be Castleford v Featherstone because i am an even greater visionary

Pity the RFL don't see your visions..Warrington 1st round Catalans away!!! Wigan travelled to Salford..Now thats the vision the RFL have.

I can't speak for all the NRL clubs, but I do know that's not the case for Melbourne - who, incidentally, have never shirked a WCC following a Grand Final win.
For them it is not about not caring, it's mainly that the game is a week out from the start of the season and ALWAYS entails shipping a squad half way around the world to play in frigid weather when you have been conditioning the guys to start a season at the end of an Aussie summer.
Storm have previously tried to have a couple of their WCC played in Oz to no avail.

Most of the Aussie fans, however, don't give a damn unless their club is involved.

Anyway, I have said for years - since 2000 in fact when storm played St Helens(and beat them 44-6 iirc

) - that it didn't count unless it was played 2 weeks after the respective Grand Finals with the full Premiership squads. [uThen[/u it'd be a trophy that mattered.

Agree with that - it seems perverse to drag it to the next season and have very different teams playing to those who qualified.

Marketing isn't the RFL's strong point and never has and never will be.

For all his faults Uncle Mo use to get us column inches, and the game had a higher profile than is does now.

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Agreed.
There was always the thought that, because of the timing and the game being played in "pre season", that, the Aussie clubs never took the WCC that seriously.
IF thereis to be a showdown between the 2 hemispheres, then it should take place a.s.a.p after the respective Grand Finals.
This would of course impact in the 4 Nations, so, thought would need to be given to that but, as it stands, this fixture (or series) never felt like it was deciding anything, let alone the best club side in the world and the extended "series" is just meaningless fixtures between Aussie & English clubs.
Having said that, over here, there is an appetite for such fixtures, even though we get our backsides kicked.