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With two matches done and dusted, the Super League is now pinning its hopes on 2014 champions St Helens to overcome NRL premiers South Sydney.
Two narrow losses from two matches have seen the Super League hand over bragging rights to the NRL for another season.
Warrington’s loss to St George-Illawarra was a tight one but if the Wolves could ponder the great ‘what if?’, spare a thought for the Wigan Warriors whose slippery hands couldn’t hold on to the ball to save their lives.
What if, their coach must be asking, we could have just held on to the ball?
What if indeed. And yet the Warriors went deep into extra time against the Brisbane Broncos only to have the match decided by the most nothing of penalties.
So besides passion, commitment and intensity, the World Club Series so far has also had fantastic crowd turnouts as well as offering its fair share of drama.
Remember Wigan’s Anthony Gelling? The man was given his marching orders for attempting – successfully by the way – an illegal charge down of the penalty kick that eventually lost them the match.
For his efforts he was sent from the field and the Wigan fans cheered him until their throats were horse.
English rugby league fans know who the enemy is, just as Australian Queensland fans know who theirs is…
Australia’s Origin series has been built on and forged through the heat of the wounded pride that Queenslanders bring to Australia’s premier series.
The same could be said of the English. Surely Super League athletes must be sick and tired of having to play second fiddle to the wrestle-a-thon that is the NRL. Surely they must feel that the purity of the game they play in the Super League deserves its time in the sun?
The support that the English fans have shown for the series – to say nothing of the players who have put their bodies on the line – tells us that we have the potential for an Origin-like rugby league event on our hands here.
The signs are all there for this series to grow into something special, something very special indeed.
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