i know we play the cowboys on the 21st feb but has the venue been confirmed yet?

All will be at Headers for the foreseeable future in my opinion.

Elland Road does make it in to a bit more of an final/event than just a glorified friendly at HQ

Maybe we should take the game on the road?

How about Huddersfield,it will show them what they are missing.Could act as a springboard for them

I heard the medical and coaching staff there all have to experts in the Heimlich manouvre. No certificate, no job.

Won't they have their own WCC match in 2016?

Man City stadium wouldn't be a bad choice imo

Or a medium sized London club like spurs ground. It only holds 36k doesn't it.

And so conveniently located just round the corner [size=200200.7 miles away[/size

HQ for mine

Why would you take it out of Leeds? It doesn't make business sense, we'd lose a good percentage of the revenue.

Some of the suggestions above are windups surely?

It will be Langtree Park, DW and Headingley.

Just a thought! If we want to expand our brand past LS6 it may be an idea to take the game to the capital

Leeds United are away that weekend, would be brillaint to have it there.

if the game wants this concept to be taken seriously it has to be more than a glorified friendly at the SL clubs home ground.

While it's laudable to talk about taking the game to places like the US or Dubai for example to help spread the game, the issue with that is the timing. It falls during the SL regular season, but in the NRL pre-season in its current spot on the calendar.

So you'd be potentially asking the SL side to play a league fixture, travel, acclimatise, play the WCC and then come back for another regular season game within the space of say 12 days. Meanwhile the NRL side can schedule the trip however it wants, because it doesn't have league fixtures to plan it around.

You've then got the revenue question, of where is the game likely to make the most money for the competing clubs. Unless a third party sponsor suddenly comes up with silly money to play in another venue, unfortunately the place where the game will get the biggest crowd and make the most money is unfortunately Leeds.

A bit of marketing building it up as the quadruple, and we'd get 30,000 plus at Elland Road. Don't like the WCC at HQ. Doesn't feel like a 'final'

All depends on the money. We need the cash to rebuild HQ.
Taking it to London is a definite no go. The only way it'd possibly work is as a Triple Header with the other 2 games.

I can't see a particular benefit to taking it to Manchester or away from Leeds. Despite getting good crowds for an RL team, it's not like we've saturated the market in Leeds or its surrounding areas and we can still appeal to those people. They're more likely to come back as well.

One of the best games ever for atmosphere was manly at HQ so Idont agree with the glorified friendly argument

You could replace the magic weekend with a new version with all three matches played at the same venue on the same day. This would have the benefit of reducing the unnecessary extra league fixture.

Elland Rd is a terrible ground - 3/4 of which is close to derelict - if we want to use a stadium of that standard might as well stay at Headingley

It was a great atmosphere for the last two played at Headingley and is guaranteed to be full to the rafters.Can't really see why anyone would want it played elsewhere.

Agree with this.
If it's a toss up between Elland Road & HQ it's HQ every day of the week.

Because it can be bigger than that. RL constantly complains that it doesn't get profile or sponsors or media talking about it. Getting half as many to watch the WCC than we did a decade ago is one of the reasons why.

How are we supposed to convince people that the WCC isn't just a cash grab, that it is a worthwhile competition if we treat it like a cash grab played at a home ground sponsored by a dodgy financial services company?

2005 nearly 40000 people watched a WCC involving leeds, only RL would look at 20k at Headingley in 2016 as success.

That was the first one the club played though so it was very much a novelty at the time hence the near full house.The other two games we played there we attracted 27k and 32k when we played Manly and Melbourne so a significant drop off. Add in the fact that Elland Road would cost a significant sum to use would it be worth the risk for GH moving it there? Only if we can be guaranteed to fill it, otherwise no imo.

And yes, personally i think a full stadium on our home ground full of our own fans, in a game we have earned to play there should be viewed as a success, because it is.Its international games played in 20k stadia because we can't fill the bigger grounds that irks me.

The drop off can be explained by the parts of Elland road that Leeds Utd didn't open
But still the lowest attendance at Elland road was 25% more than we could get at Headingley.


If the WCC is a competition to find the best rl side in the world, pitting the two biggest rl competitions against each other it could be huge. If it's a glorified friendly to make leeds rhinos a bit more money, frankly I don't think I could even be bothered to watch it on Sky never mind attend. It's the heatshot festive challenge with a fancier name.

Nothing wrong with Headingley as others said will be packed and great atmosphere.

But surely we shold be making this an event to market the brand of the Rhino's outside of LS6

Market the game everywhere in Leeds make a presence in the City Centre with billboards with 3 trophys and J.Thurston etc.. and we would pack Elland Road with 35k easy.

Let's get some new and casual fans coming to HQ in 2016

We are small time when it comes to marketing we have no presense anywhere in the city. and having it at HQ is the safe and small time option