Missing out: New Zealand referee Henry Perenara will not be heading to England for the Four Nations. Credit:Brendon Thorne London calling? 2. An interesting proposal from within an NRL club to revitalise the World Club Series fell off the back of a truck outside Set of Six Towers over the weekend. Rather than playing the second-placed Super League team from the previous year, the NRL runners-up would travel to England to play the NRL premiers in a season-opening spectacular at a major London venue such as Wembley Stadium. Not only that, the match would be a double-header with a round-four Super League game in which the previous year's grand finalists would meet for the first time since. Positives: exposing Super League to London-based antipodean expats, bringing a crowd from the north, creating a new occasion. Negatives: detracting from the actual WCC, the NRL being currently hidden away on Premier Sports and lead-in time required seemingly being beyond the current NRL administration.

Neutrality neutralised 3. Match officials from neutral countries are a given in many sports – but since rugby league only has two full-time professional competitions, it gave up such altruism a few years ago. However, in Four Nations tournaments it has at least been possible to have a referee in the middle from a neutral country for each game … until now. New Zealand will not be sending a referee to England, which basically means Henry Perenara misses out. That, in turn, means when England play Australia, we'll have a referee from one of those countries, perpetuating a handy little yarn reporters covering these things have been writing for almost a generation now. World famous in Serbia 4. Prop David Andjelic is getting used to being an internationally recognisable reality TV star as he returns to the country he and his family fled when he was just a one-year-old. Andjelic, who starred in The NRL Rookie, is playing in World Cup qualifiers for Serbia and was approached by star-struck fans after playing in the 50-0 loss to Wales in Llanelli at the weekend.

"It was a war-struck country, we left as refugees and immigrants," he told Set of Six. "All my family is in Serbia … it's me and my mum against the world in Australia." The NRL Rookie was popular on Sky Sports, which no longer shows NRL matches. Frizell a World Cup certainty 5. Tyson Frizell can pretty much block off two months at the the end of next year. It seems, one way or another, he's playing in the World Cup. After five caps for Wales, the St George Illawarra star made his Australia debut on Saturday. And although Wales coach John Kear isn't a fan of the new rule allowing tier two nations to pick the top three's leftovers, in the case of Frizell he says he'll happily use it.

"He send us a good luck message before our game, which indicates how much he likes the guys he plays with here and that he cares about us," said Kear. 'I'm not so sure it's a rule that I like but I'm a coach, aren't I? You ask any coach and what they want is the best players on the football field. If Tyson isn't required by Australia I'll shake Mal Meninga's hand and we'll give him the No.11 shirt." Belle of the ball: Tyson Frizell will be playing in the World Cup, but for which country is still undecided. Credit:Paul Kane Child's play for Bennett 6. England officials will naturally prefer there aren't too many personal questions when their new coach, Wayne Bennett, faces the media during the Four Nations. Bennett has recently split up with his wife Trish and moved out of the family home, as you almost certainly know. Loading