eastmond and sam half backs at the peak of their careers could be in with a chance

Do we have any idea how many teams/groups and will it be a random draw because we no all to well the RFL and making "live" draws i would have 4 groups with 3teams in them and stage group games like this.

GROUP 1 LEEDS/BRADFORD
GROUP 2 HULL/SHEFFIELD
GROUP 3 WIGAN/LIVERPOOL
GROUP 4 HUDDERSFIELD/SALFORD

SEMI FINAL DOUBLE HEADER COM
FINAL EMIRATES STADIUM.

Other clubs are planning to build entire stadiums by 2011, never mind 2013. A new South Stand and additions to the East and Millward Stands and, it pains me to say it, but it'd be a beltin' venue for, say, PNG vs Samoa or summat along those lines.

We need to realise our place in the modern sporting era and unfortunately for those with ideas of expansion and marketing beyond belief (which does of course cost money) we are second best to Union by quite some distance.

Somebody mentioned Liverpool and Anfield earlier as a venue for one of their WC games and how people from the city don't even know about league yet they play all around the local areas and even have one of the best sides in SL playing in Merseyside.

For me that is were the problem lies. We cannot decide to take the game to mid-sized football stadiums where nobody has a modicum of knowledge of RL and hope the RL fans will turn nomadic for three or so weeks. Union can do this because they are already a big catch and more importantly they are competitive.

We are putting the right methods in place and are making inroads into certain areas for expansion so we can move some games outside the heartlands anyway but lets not, as Bilko has already said, make the same mistakes we did in 2000. England, Wales and if a Scottish side has made it into RL and SL then possibly there as well.

All the games should be oop north bar the final at Wembley. Why do people care what southerners think? People who don't care about RL aren't people i'm interested in, i don't care if they call us a regional sport.

Reading quotes just after the last WC, it looks like we will have 12 team, 3 groups of 4.