England coach Wayne Bennett has vowed to lead Brisbane Broncos into the 2017 World Club Series.
Plans for the annual clash between the leading clubs from Super League and the NRL were thrown into disarray earlier this week when Melbourne Storm officially withdrew.
They were promptly followed by a host of other Australian outfits, who claimed it interfered with their preparations for the new domestic season.
Wigan and Cronulla, the two 2016 Grand Final winners, will meet in the traditional World Club Challenge at the DW Stadium on the weekend of February 16-17.
However, uncertainty surrounds the other two scheduled ties in the recently-expanded World Club Series following the snub from beaten NRL Grand Finalists Melbourne, who were due to play Super League runners-up Warrington.
Brisbane had offered to host Wigan if they had lost the Super League Grand Final and Bennett, a long-time advocate of the international game, says he has already been in touch with Rugby Football League chief executive Nigel Wood to reassure him of his club's commitment to the series.
"We would be keen to travel," Bennett said. "I spoke to Nigel on Monday night and told him that the whole concept has got the club's backing.
"We love coming over, we've enjoyed it in the last couple of years as a club and we're also trying to host one here in the pre-season. But if that doesn't come to fruition and there's a vacancy to come over to England, we will certainly go.
"The other clubs have all got their reasons I'm sure, but we don't find it interferes with our season really.
"We've played in a Grand Final, gone over for the World Club Series and started the following year well, so I can't find a fault with it. Personally I'd be extremely disappointed if we shared the same view."
Meanwhile, Bennett said he would have had no qualms about picking Australia-born players in his 24-man squad for the Four Nations Series, even though he opted not to in the end.
Twins Brett and Josh Morris, who have both represented the Kangaroos, and Newcastle Knights scrum-half Trent Hodkinson were among a raft of players linked with a switch of allegiance.
"I was considering any player that was eligible for England, whether they were Australia-born, Australia-based or simply English," Bennett said. "It didn't faze me in any way.
"The speculation got out of control though. It was purely media-driven in this country, I don't know what it was like in England.
"At the time I said nothing about it but I'll pick the best 24 players to play for England in my opinion. If they're Australia-based, I would have stood by that."
Bennett has been able to call on the local knowledge of assistants Denis Betts, the Widnes head coach, and Paul Anderson, who was in charge of Huddersfield up to July, but insisted he had the last word on selection and defended his decision to ignore Hull hooker Danny Houghton, the 2017 Man of Steel.
"I wasn't told who to pick," he said. "I consulted with people I trust who are well-connected in the game and I watch a lot of the games - it made it a lot easier for me.
"They were my decisions and my decisions only. I see a fair bit of Super League; I have my own job at the Broncos but the games are shown Friday morning and Saturday morning here - and occasionally Sunday too - so I know what's going on.
"My job is to pick what I think is the best players and what we need from them. If Houghton has missed out then that's the reason why he's missed out.
"It doesn't take away from his wonderful achievement in winning Man of Steel - I didn't know I was supposed to pick him because of that."