I'm not particularly a fan of the WCC, for many of the reasons you mentioned in your 'rambling' post. However it generates money, interest and publicity for the sport so I have no problem with it as things stand, even if many fans know that it's just a bit of a redundant sideshow. That's also why I'm happy for it to be held here every year because it makes more of an impact here than it does in Australia, and I think that's probably the view the organisers take as well. And yes, I'm also expecting the Cowboys to thrash Leeds, whether or not they can beat Widnes' margin from last week we'll have to see.
My comments though were about last night's game in isolation. Yes, we would struggle to compete with NRL teams in general, but we should and would've been able to compete with that NRL team if we had anything like a competent set-up. They didn't have one world class player or someone you'd consider to be a star. You talk about how NRL teams didn't take it seriously when we beat them in the past but the Roosters didn't take it seriously last night, they had a weaker team than just about any I've seen from the NRL in the WCC and they still walked over us. And that's completely on us. I could accept your comments if we were anything like a good side but sadly we're not, at present we're a million miles off deserving to be in this type of match.