There is at least three different organizations. When you look at Hawaii's new Facebook page you see no mention of the AMNRL. they have done quite well, thank you very much, without Niu and company's involvement, recently hosting a small 9's tournament and then hosting the Royal Australian Navy for two matches. My guess is they've gone their own way since the AMNRL promised and then reneged on some monetary compensation to the Indigenious team when they visited.
I think you can also look to many of the other teams out West who have received only token support at best, with some of the teams having flip-flopped between the AMNRL and USARL and not getting any support from either group.
You can also look "north of the border" in Canada where the British Columbia Rugby League has made great strides, and arguably have surpassed their Ontario counterparts. The Ontario group controls Canada Rugby League, and have given very little monetary support to British Columbia. In fact, the BC boys who have suited up for Canada this fall received no financial support from the national team to fly across country and participate.
But, this is par for the course. Every national sporting body in Canada is controlled by, and based in Eastern Canada. Ontario is always looked after first, then the rest of the country gets the scraps.
I know there is not a lot of money to go around in any of these groups, but there is some. But it's not just money. The eastern groups in both countries have promised support in other ways but all they have done, it appears, is sent their logos to the western groups to put on their Facebook pages.
