Fletch - out of interest, from western sydney subbies club perspective have you had much to do with Simon Kacimaiwai and the new Western Sydney program? I would have thought the whole thing hinges on getting the schools playing rugby which then feeds all the different clubs. Have they openly said that their aspiration is to get the Emus back into SS at some point in the future?
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Yea Simon has been out a few times along with Fludey who has been regularly coming out or keeping tabs.
As an observation he doesnt know what he doesnt know, so I've been transparent with what goes on around the place.
i.e. we hosted a gala day for the North West schools comp as Penrith Anglican have been based at NRP and invited him out. Also flagged with him that a few games were cancelled due to no referees. He was onto it ensuring its addressed. Not sure if he ended up attending as I was at work. He has come out to a home game, training night, over 35s games and I'd assume same with juniors.
We also had a Western Sydney night at Merrylands RSL where every Sydney/ NSW union was represented and all clubs invited.
Another example is we are happy to host the Cultural clubs/ Pasifika Cup teams but the organisation has been loosely through members of the different clubs in the past and we have insisted the clubs go through Simon if they want to use the ground to help him navigate the landscape there but I don't think its been taken up yet to my knowledge.
If you watch plight of the emus it would seem that way.
