Fiji

[Stewbum]

Spent some time in Sigatoka recently. Saw a kid in an Easts Tigers shirt, and another in a Redcliffe Dolphins jersey. Most villages had footy fields but the grass was uncut. Quite a number of NRL jerseys on show in the hellish humidity too.

Is the plan for the NSWRL side to play out of Suva or Nadi? It's a pity the QRL didn't run with this.

 

[CQ Italia]

Spent some time in Sigatoka recently. Saw a kid in an Easts Tigers shirt, and another in a Redcliffe Dolphins jersey. Most villages had footy fields but the grass was uncut. Quite a number of NRL jerseys on show in the hellish humidity too.

Is the plan for the NSWRL side to play out of Suva or Nadi? It's a pity the QRL didn't run with this.

Here he is:
And the Fiji NSW Bid team will likely play out of Suva (national stadium), train out of Sigatoka

 

[Stewbum]

Here he is:
And the Fiji NSW Bid team will likely play out of Suva (national stadium), train out of Sigatoka

Thanks for that.

That's a fair drive for training.

 

[CQ Italia]

Thanks for that.

That's a fair drive for training.

All players will likely be based/living close to / out of Sigatoka

 

[Stewbum]

All players will likely be based/living close to / out of Sigatoka

Well they'll certainly be fit for humid conditions.

 

[XXXX Cap]

Surely you don't holiday in Fiji when you live in a resort town like Redcliffe ?

 

[Stewbum]

Surely you don't holiday in Fiji when you live in a resort town like Redcliffe ?

I am not among the lucky few who live on the peninsula....

Being a salt of the earth type, I reside a little to the south of Brisbane.

 

[CC_Roosters]

Have thought for a while that if the ARL are fixed on rebranding the state cups as two conferences of the same comp they should have PNG and Fiji in the Northern comp and then whatever NZ teams come to fruition in the southern comp

 

[XXXX Cap]

I am not among the lucky few who live on the peninsula....

Being a salt of the earth type, I reside a little to the south of Brisbane.

I won't ask !

 

[Stewbum]

Have thought for a while that if the ARL are fixed on rebranding the state cups as two conferences of the same comp they should have PNG and Fiji in the Northern comp and then whatever NZ teams come to fruition in the southern comp

Yes, but that would assume a level of common sense and competence as yet unseen in the fine administrators of our game.

 

[expansionist]

I may have missed this, but has the Fiji bid actually been officially 100% accepted?

I was kind of hoping that the Fiji bid would run out of patience with the NSWRL (which they should have a long time ago) and applied to the QRL.

I may be overly optimistic but of the 2 organisations, both of which move at the speed of a glacier - i suspect the QRL may be a slightly more sprightly Glacier than the NSWRL