World Club Series 2016 : Sun Oct 04, 2015 8:04 pm  

St Helens will be in 2016's World Club Series and they will play Sydney Roosters on Friday, February 19.

Re: World Club Series 2016 : Sun Oct 04, 2015 8:17 pm  

Sums up the giants pretty much tbh.

Perhaps the saints will manage to score a point this time.

Re: World Club Series 2016 : Sun Oct 04, 2015 9:22 pm  

surely it must be time to come down here again. fartown v dragons at homebush would do me

Re: World Club Series 2016 : Mon Oct 05, 2015 5:08 pm  

where was this announced?

no surprise the rfl didnt pick us seeing as we snubbed it last time

Re: World Club Series 2016 : Mon Oct 05, 2015 6:56 pm  

Maybe exposure to these sorts of games would give us that 'big game experience' we need?!

Re: World Club Series 2016 : Mon Oct 05, 2015 7:20 pm  

Just seen this which says we are in it....d[edit]
Qualification for the Super League teams was changed to the Challenge Cup Winners qualifying as well as the League Leaders and Grand Final Winners qualifying. As Leeds Rhinos have already won the Challenge Cup and the League Leaders Shield, as well as booking a Grand Final spot with Wigan Warriors, the additional place in the series will go to the next highest team from the Super League table - Huddersfield Giants, who finished 3rd behind Leeds and Wigan. Meaning the three English sides in the World Club Series will be Leeds, Wigan and Huddersfield.

No requirements are needed for NRL clubs to qualify, these are picked by the NRL. North Queensland Cowboys won the NRL title winning the Grand Final 17-16 to become the first team confirmed in the series, they will play the Super League Grand Final winners for the World Club Championship.

Series details[edit]
Game 1[edit]
February 2016
Huddersfield Giants v TBD
John Smiths Stadium
Attendance: TBD
Referee/s: TBD
Man of the Match: TBD
Game 2[edit]
February 2016
SL League Leaders TBD TBD
Tries: TBD
Goals: TBD Tries: TBD
Goals: TBD
TBD
Attendance: TBD
Referee/s: TBD
Man of the Match: TBD
World Club Challenge[edit]
February 2016
SL Champions TBD North Queensland Cowboys
Tries: TBD
Goals: TBD
TBD
Attendance: TBD
Referee/s: TBD
Man of the Match: TBD

[Durham Giant]

Re: World Club Series 2016 : Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:38 pm  

where is that from ?

Re: World Club Series 2016 : Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:57 pm  

Durham Giant wrote:

where is that from ?

The oh so reliable Wikipedia

Re: World Club Series 2016 : Tue Oct 06, 2015 7:06 am  

HuddsRL5 wrote:

Maybe exposure to these sorts of games would give us that 'big game experience' we need?!

Totally agree. I also think the club owe it to the fans to make sure they're included.

Re: World Club Series 2016 : Tue Oct 06, 2015 7:55 am  

Pacific wrote:

St Helens will be in 2016's World Club Series and they will play Sydney Roosters on Friday, February 19.

Presumably that's because they are St Helens, and the RFL is desperate for the series to be competitive and Saints always deliver against Australian teams *snigger*


Anyway, assuming this is a daft rumour, it will be us in the World Club Series as we finished third above St Helens. I think that would be brilliant. I would hope that the club rouses itself from the torpor and goes all out to sell it out. I think the target attendance should be 20,000. Fill the place - they'll have months to go at it so why not?

Time for the whole club to step up and play with the big boys.