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Gotta keep saying something, I assume.

The game is not for sale. That is the key issue that these blokes need to remember. If Twiggy does not know that, he will find out sooner rather than later. With all our faults and foibles, we are rugby. All of us. Not just RA, and certainly not just the richest guy in the room.

Ireland beat the Darkness because their defense was so good. TBF, so was the rest of their game, but I reckon their D was the Key.

Mate, keep an open mind. Not easy, given the amount of nonsense being sprouted by the proponents of the venture. If it works, even a bit, it will be a good thing.

He is a bit taller, maybe a bit better under the high ball than Koroibete? And there will be a lot of high balls, I reckon the Poms will give us a barrage of box kicks.

It would be a bit tough to leave Koroibete out of the team, I reckon. He is a dynamo.

3 Rodda 2 Kerevi 3 AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper)

With any luck, Petaia will earn his first cap soon, and will get another couple of hundred or so in a stellar career,

Toying is the best we can do at this stage.

Yes, it will help, but it will not do much to bridge the gap between what is pretty much a third world economy and the tier one nations, who are all pretty much first world, huge economies of scale, sports academies, proper stadia, etc etc. Ben Ryan famously had to dip into his own pocket for...

So the mooted availability of 20 or so pro contracts will make all the difference? What about all the other young players who do not have local contracts? Fiji's GDP per capita is about an eighth of ours, by the way. Not much spare money for sporting facilities, and all the other advantages...

Fiji will struggle unless it has a "tier 1" economy. The financial incentives for young players to play offshore are hard to resist.

We do not do box kicks. I struggle to think of an Australian half back at any level, of any era, who can or could execute a decent box kick. This is just not a skill that we have ever wanted in our repetoire.

Ben Te'o for example. I shudder to think of what he would do to Foley.

Two interesting views. As always, the truth lies somewhere between the two extremes. IF all of us agreed to cooperate and work together for the common good of the game EVEN IF that means pain in the short term (and it would), then we have got a chance. There is a huge amount of parochialism...

Round in circles we all go. The game is where it is now because of a lot of factors, as I have said many times, most of them are totally out of our hands. The popularity of the AFL and NRL (the latter in particular) might be to some extent because of our failures as a game to go pro 100 years...

Let's face it, we have got huge problems at 10/12. Lots of other problems too, but this area is our biggest single area of weakness.

I have said before that at the end of the day, the best possible thing that could happen for us is for a "bastardised hybrid" to emerge. Imagine a game that embraced the best players and the best rules, of the NRL and traditional rugby. That would be a domestic competition that could lead to...

Could be an attempt to get some interest from "mainland" China.

It would be great for the game, I reckon. Gordon should really be a powerhouse, and if they were, their success might eventuate in more interest generally for the game in their neighbourhood.