Was a glorified friendly really seen as a 'big game' though ? yes it would be a novelty thing for the fans to see an NRL team but there was nothing at stake ans it was going to cost us ? excellent decision in my view !

there is cases for being in it and cases for not being in it.. for me id have liked to have been in it, we earned the right with the 3rd place finish, good exposure for the club too..we always need this with our lack of support.

anyway the big clubs are in it apart from leeds, the usual grand final and cup winners are in..we arent. we could have changed that.

I'm sure if there was a trophy or something to be won the club would have thought differently though, ultimately it is a high profile friendly game with nothing to play for. and one that we would have had to pay for the pleasure of hosting !!

A real shame we turned down the opportunity to play against a top NRL side. Would loved to have seen that match. Maybe it is a glorified friendly, but the other top English and Australian teams think its worth while. I honestly believe it would have helped with the players gaining a bit more big match experience too as well as raising the clubs profile.

1 of the top teams has the chance to be crowned World Club champions !!!!! the other 2 are rich enough to be able to fork out the money for this without it affecting their budget, at a guess i'd say it would be a chunk out of ours ..or were people expecting Ken Davy to simply pay for it himself.

And as for the Aussies thinking it's worthwhile....well they can only be bothered to send their 8th and 11th placed teams so hardly their 'top' ones.

Thing is in the "other code" when the European Cup started non of the big English clubs wanted to know - all giving the same reasons, but it made a lot of money

Now it's a massive comp that has European wide coverage (and of truly dire games)

The world club champs could be massive - just needs the English clubs to win

Just to clarify, the article doesn't indicate the giants were ever in a position to turn it down, just that Thewlis wasn't upset to not be involved.

Still that's Brisbane or St George? Would have loved to see us face them. As for KD footing the bill. Then maybe yes, but he foots the bill for all sorts as it stands and this could have helped in the long term finances if it was well marketed and got some newbies in. Anyway, its all ifs and buts because we are not competing.

Ken Davy spoke to 4Fs about it, coming out soon, and the way he spoke strongly suggested we were offered the chance!

yes we qualified as to being the 3rd ranked team.

when we turned it down the rfl put the spin on it that warrington were now the 3rd ranked team



like i have said arguments for and against but i feel we are missing out.

would have been great to welcome the likes of Brisbane Broncos to our stadium and a boost, the marketing team could have had lots to work with.. if they got it right! its also backed by sky sports so we will hear lots about it but will be sat at the sidelines when we should have taken what was ours to compete it, small club mentality

Maybe the marketing team/club realised it was too big a job for them ? either way i aren't too bothered, soon enough we will be playing an Aussie side for the real one not a sideshow friendly to it !

if the club couldn't market and make money out of a game like that then they should pack up

lets hope you're right and we win the Grand final then. But then will we say it will cost too much for us to play the game, god help us if we have to go to the Australia to play it, prob let wigan go instead

I'm sure the club wouldn't turn down the chance to play in a game in which there was a trophy on offer !

At least we could very well win the infirmary cup this year

From a harsh point of view it's perhaps best for the Giants not to go

1. It's a lot of money for the club to recoup and let's not deny our marketing team is either terminally constricted or they really are useless

2. Let's be honest our form in high intensity games is not the best and a spanking at the hands of an Aussie team would be hard to recover from in terms of selling us to non converts

3. In continuing from 2 I'd rather see 3 English wins to boost the games profile and international setup - the clubs competing best represent that

4. Its a big pre-season distraction in this first year of a new league format, I'd rather see us start the season well and secure top 8

Most clubs use plastic cards now and not a bingo ticket booklet like something from the 50s but we are talking Huddersfield now, do you also include your turnstyle staff in your official attendances ?

He he, good one, bet you're writing the jokes for the crackers in Hull this year !!

I'm not from Hull. Just thought I'd pass comment on the unprovoked slander to a polite innocent question to someone from Hull by a dullard from gods waiting room.