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As I've said previously I think KL would be one of the more likely if you take into account numbers and development.

They've been in Sri Lankan recently meeting with the Sports Minister.

I tend to think Malaysia may be a chance. They've had solid numbers for years. Recently been pushing the Get Into Rugby program really hard and have been restructuring their national league system over the past few season in preparation for the launch of professionalism next season. Pretty sure...

Look at the graphic highlighting time zones and then cut out the Sri Lankan cities and Hawaii.

It would probably be a better path to delivering their planned professional 15s competition than funding an entirely local competition.

From my one session of Chinese Commercial Law at Uni, any external ownership of a commercial entity within China requires a Chinese partner. Which I suspect would likely be Alisports. Which solves that issue.

Wow. That's actually a better crowd than I thought. As for the ratings. Meh. Was nothing more than a glorified trial game so I'm not that perturbed by them.

Yep. If this looks like it's tracking the way Forrest wants I predict we'll see the other 4 Aus franchises look to jump across as soon as possible. Plus perhaps even Fiji. I also agree we should invite the Kiwi's in. They would be good for a few teams. Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch perhaps.

The Japanese Union have come to an agreement which secures access to all their national team players with the Top League owners. This means they'll be able to run them in Super Rugby via the Sunwolves. That's a positive step.

Apparently WR (World Rugby) are looking at a proposal by IMG to establish an IPL like 7s league based around 6 franchises across Europe. According to what I've read (which is very limited) it will involve two franchises from the UK and one from Ireland. I think it is quite interesting as a concept. But will...

Ideally we'd have a team from Nth Sydney (playing out of either North Sydney Oval or Rat Park), Sydney (out of Concord) and Country.

I've seen it mentioned that that figure of 150,000 was actually from the streamed games. If so, that's seriously impressive.

The approach to Sydney is far too reliant on the clubs involved in the JV's in my opinion. They haven't traditionally been terribly good at promoting themselves even with the luxury of a TV deal. Frankly, there needs to a marketing plan in existence period. Which I seriously doubt has ever been...

I'm feeling a bit like a broken record at this point but the biggest issue with the NRC (really its only real issue) is its lack of overall promotion both within the Rugby community and the wider public. The games deserve more attention in order to attract higher numbers of bums on seats and...

Does that include regionals?

Then surely it should be a case of our young blokes getting the better of their young guys. Because in many respects. That's exactly what happened. Our younger guys growing into Test Rugby.

Over on PR your lot are being far too gracious in defeat. I prefer your rage much, much more.

And the best thing about it is, we still have a great deal of improvement left in us. Seriously. There's still a lot of work left leading into 2019 for this team but the signs are good.

Yeah, I cringed pretty hard when Drew Mitchell made not one but two blue balls jokes in the opening minutes of the Rams/QldCountry game last weekend. Not good and not funny.

I'd actually welcome World Rugby looking to emulate the Drua with another Island base squad.