100 days until the World Club Challenge, yet still no official announcement.

Sack it off for me.

Give it a year to air out and get some actual clauses properly inserted for the next lot.

They may be waiting for the WC to be over

Melbourne won't be in a rush to organise/confirm it. Won't bother them in the slightest that it'd help the Leeds club and its supporters to know as soon as possible so they can start sorting out travel etc.

Just give us the trophy on a forfeit as they obviously have no interest and they owe us for the one they won against us in their Salary Cap cheating period where they subsequently got stripped of the WCC title for that year

Why would anyone spend all that money for what on the face of it appears to be a meaningless contest - if it happens the weekend it will happen is known.

Melbourne and NZ Warriors playing a friendly on 17th February 2018. So things just got interesting with this.

Have Castleford got a game confirmed/lined up?

Looking more likely its not then. Shame.

Agreed. Melbourne clearly don’t want to play this game.

Steve Mascord confirming via twitter that the Storm will split their squad to play both fixtures that weekend.

Which shows they don't give a hoot about the concept. If winning the WCC meant anything to them they would be playing all their first 17 against us and state winning it a priority. If they play a virtual second string we are going all the way over there during our season for a game that has already been belittled and snubbed in a big way. if we win we beat their reserves in a virtual pre season trial for them, lose and we are laughed at for being beaten under those circumstances.

I wish we would just blow it off this year and concentrate on getting a good start in SL.