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Looks like he picked up a bit of experience with Tattarang and Minderoo while at the Force, but has only been practicing for about a year. Seems to be framing himself as a sports lawyer though, so it might be that he is the face of it to generate a bit of noise for the firm. Foketi will...

Former NSW Country Rugby Union boss Stephen O’Brien has been charged with misappropriating a 6 figure sum while in the role...

He pretty clearly tries to get it done 2 or 3 times before finally connecting.

Most interesting thing about this whole story is that Foketi is being represented by Michael Wells (former Brumbies/tahs/Rebels/Force player). Overall it sounds like Foketi screwed up in not properly taking leave or working this out via his manager first, and RA are probably being a bit heavy...

Rigged it against South Africa, clearly

They have, but I love a rivalry game like that in pool play. Also Georgia will be so focused on beating Italy that they might end up at risk to a Romanian team hell bent on beating them.

Would love to see Scott Sio do us a favour and lead Samoa to an upset over Japan, I think they'd be even less risk then Japan in that round of 16 game (assuming we're second in our pool).

I actually think the SA match up in Australia might be slightly better for us, but probably not by much.

England in the quarter will be tough, but get through it and that's a much easier semi.

It's not too bad given the tournament structure, and I think it means we likely won't see them in the knock outs until the end (if we both make it). More important to avoid a 3rd string that could pull off an upset.

NZ, Australia, Chile, Hong Kong Probably the hardest 1 seed, but easiest (close to) 3 and (definitely) 4 seed we could get.

Georgia v Romania is going to be a great pool game Italy and South Africa joining them, that's going to be scrum heavy pool

Probably makes Perth a very good bet, particularly with nothing scheduled there yet.

Must be finding salaries for players (it's specifically designed to combat player drain due to PNG NRL), but the wage bill for each of these teams would only be a few million each (less for Fiji if it's run by the Drua) so there will be lots more. I'm guessing also flights and accom for...

That's a huge boost for the comp! A single round robin with 3 more teams will double the amount of matches both sides play and it starts to look like a proper 3rd tier capable of helping these guys make the step up to the next level. Familiarity with travel through the Pacific will probably help...