Well if they use soooperdoooper league as a model they may as we'll burn the money!

Rumours that Fiji will have a home fixture in next year's Four Nations, possibly against England.

That would be a superb thing to happen. To be honest when the home nations were having a bit of a bleat about OZ/NZ wanting a year off last year, I thought at the time it would be a great alternative to tour the pacific islands. I know the facilities aren't the best but I'm pretty sure it would be abetter bonding experience for the squad than camps in Loughborough and South Africa and would give back a lot to an area that is bled for players with no real input in development from the benefactors.

On this clip - looks like a crowd of about 10k for a game without a single NRL or ESL player (Fiji residents v Fiji Overseas) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMi5hc0x2mg

On this clip - looks like a crowd of about 10k for a game without a single NRL or ESL player (Fiji residents v Fiji Overseas) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMi5hc0x2mg

Quote roopy="roopy"On this clip - looks like a crowd of about 10k for a game without a single NRL or ESL player (Fiji residents v Fiji Overseas) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMi5hc0x2mg'" There are a few NRL but not many, be good to see the whole match!

Quote roopy="roopy"On this clip - looks like a crowd of about 10k for a game without a single NRL or ESL player (Fiji residents v Fiji Overseas) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMi5hc0x2mg'" There are a few NRL but not many, be good to see the whole match!

It would be interesting to see what side Fiji would come up with next year.
Obviously Civo would be a huge loss, but Korbin Sims will probably be a prop next year, and maybe he could fill the big boots of Civo.
Some of the aging backs like Wes Naiqama, Millard and Waqa could make way for Nabouli from Penrith and maybe the third Tani brother from Fiji, who is supposed to be better than the other two, and is being described in Fiji as as good as his uncle (Noa Nandruku).
The big area they could improve is if Sutton is fit and could be their main playmaker, and maybe Groome could move to hooker, where he usually plays, and where Fiji seem a bit lacking.
They probably also need to find 3 or 4 quality forwards to compete with the big 3 nations. Their backs are good enough, with Sutton their halves would be good enough, but once you take out Civo they are looking very short in the forwards.

Fiji is probably well worth devoting time and money as the source of players is large and its underserviced by RU as Fiji isn't treated as a major international team. So long as we don't see endless Uate clones playing Origin rather than for Fiji, there are also benefits for NRL clubs in terms of talent as well.

They would have had to move to Australia before the age of 12 to qualify for SOO
That would make them Australians via emigration.

I seem to remember reading last year that Mcnamara tried to organise something along those lines last year, but it was't to be. I just hope the NRL bosses will ignore idiots like Rothfield and now finally recognise the importance of international RL.

Most tours need to make money or at least break even.
A tour to the Pacific Islands would make a significant loss.

I hope that this year's Tonga v Samoa test held in Penrith becomes a regular thing to keep the interest levels up.

Well, they got over 10k to Penrith, that was not bad, could have been better though, half of Sydney's Western Suburbs are made up of Islanders or Arabs.