Crikey they start out during the second month of spring and finish in the first week of summer, and given the final match is set to be staged at Brisbane Stadium the summer will very much make itself evident.
So if the English lads were to make the final instead of Australia they will need to have done some serious heat training.
I start to feel the heat effects after a mid-summer walk down to the shop and back.
Chasing 13 other heavily perspiring pieces of brutal human machinery around a park in an attempt to take the ball off them is, for me, out of the question.
Sky Sport 2 has the dibs on the matches while Prime also steps in where the Kiwi clashes are involved, so pay to view or free-to-air, you won't miss Shaun Johnson and the boys as they toil to take the Rugby League World Cup back for the first time since they won it (just the once too I might add) back in 2008.
In the past three finals it has been us against the Aussies and they've picked up two of them, rather convincingly, and we've nabbed the one.
So is it time to pounce again?
Apart from stamina I think Lady Luck would have to be a vital ingredient for us on this count as going by the results of the Warriors against the best of the Aussie sides in the ARL championship we would need her to wave the magic wand.
Which, to a degree, she already has in terms of who we are facing up to on the road to (with more luck) the grand final.
We are in Group B with Samoa, Scotland and Tonga and on paper one would steer toward a clean sweep.
But issuing such predictions can be something of a curse...an example of how best to put the mockers on something.
Because like us these dies have waited a good few years for this tournament to come round and where the 15 best rugby leagues from around the world get the chance to make an appearance on the world stage.
And that world stage includes stadiums at Hamilton, Christchurch, Auckland and Wellington...and for the USA it also means taking the field (and the heat) at Port Moresby when they face up to Papua New Guinea.
The schedulers have thought it out in the usual manner, going for an explosive beginning and an equally explosive grand finale.
The hosts kick it off against England, live on Sky Sport 2 at 9.30pm on Friday from Melbourne and it will effectively be the north versus the south.
The Kiwis get their first tilt at the road to the title at Mt Smart Stadium on Saturday at 8pm against Samoa and the following Saturday they have Scotland in Christchurch in a 4.30pm kick-off outing.
Our last group match will be against Tonga on November 11 in Hamilton and then it is all about doing the sums and totting together the points gathered to see who steps into the quarter-finals which spark up on November 17...with two of the quarters to be staged in New Zealand, while we also get a semifinal.
So lads in black, the home crowds await.
Can you do this?
Of course you can...I'm sure Lady Luck has bought tickets.
● Rugby League World Cup, Sky Sport 2 and for Kiwi clashes Prime also: Begins on Friday and ends in early December so there are a lot of games to be whistled into life between.
ON THE BOX
● Tripe Trio (Love Connection, Take Me Out and Naked Attraction). TV2 on Friday night at some stage, who cares when: Ahh yes, "Reality" dating shows.
Three in a row for those who find such thinly disguised efforts at voyeurism entertainment.
Personally I'd rather watch the cat trying to nail a blowfly on the net curtains.
Much more unpredictable in terms of how much damage will be inflicted on the curtains and far more entertaining...even if you do know who the ultimate winner in the battle will be.
Mind you, at least they roll them all out one after the other on the one night so other evenings are free of them.
● Father Brown, Prime at 9.30pm Saturday: This charming but ever-so-slightly sinister series of tales is set in the English Cotswolds during the 1950s...so it is terribly English of course.
The little village where it is centred is very picturesque and the people are quite the characters...but at the end of the day it has that Midsomer feel to it.
A peaceful little hamlet in the countryside where a week doesn't go by without something dark and mysterious happening.
But hey, it's only a television show and a colourful one, as the chap who solves things of a dark and mysterious nature is a kind-hearted, kind-faced priest.