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    Vegas And The Round Up: Success or Not?

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    When Foxtel interviewed V’landys and Abdo after the match they said they flew Australian rugby post manufacturers to the US to build, in a US factory, decent posts for the match.

    When allegiant stadium was built they incorporated footings to hold rugby posts within the movable playing surface. They had to dig around in the pitch to find them as they’d never been used before.

    The posts will now be stored in the US until the season opener next year.

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    Vegas And The Round Up: Success or Not?

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    The Raiders are keen to sign a woman who has represented the US in rugby union. She was at the combine.

    This link bypasses the paywall.

    https://archive.is/zP7K5

    “I spoke to her and said I would love to have you and she said yes, I’d be keen,” Furner said.

    “Other clubs might be interested in her, but we would love to get her.

    “With Liz, I saw a lovely young girl, I had previously watched her highlights and sent them to our coach Darrin Borthwick and after seeing her today, we would love to offer her an opportunity if she wants to come.

    “We have a spot available on our female roster and I will follow up with Liz when we get back to Australia.

    “If she is keen to come to Australia, I would love to sign her with the support of our coach.

    “We will now continue talks with her. As a club, Canberra would love to sign the first American female player.”

    Tafuna is a hard-running powerhouse who has Samoan blood and has represented the USA in rugby union.

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    Vegas And The Round Up: Success or Not?

    in The General Rugby League Forum

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    4 hours ago, ATLANTISMAN said:

    Maybe there are a few but we havant exactly visited the best places its just expensive, this morning breakfast we all had crepes (Totally tasteless) 3 coffees 2 orange juices 125$

    Interesting. I’ve never been to LV but I have stayed in Reno which is a smaller casino city in Nevada. I remember the food being very affordable. The people I traveled with still made sandwiches from supermarket shops and we slept in a camper van in a parking lot full of prostitutes. 🤣

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    Catalans Travel

    in The General Rugby League Forum

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    13 minutes ago, Dave T said:

     

    Thanks, I thought I'd seen something, and this often comes up whenever Perth are mentioned. 

    In reality, we probably should have a buy-in fee and then you buy an equal share, where for unusual costs and things we should share the risks. 

    I do think the only benefit of this is consistency, I'm not a massive fan of having multiple overseas clubs in the pyramid being treated differently like we saw with Toulouse, Catalans and Toronto. But this should have been considered before now. 

    This 2018 article (  https://amp.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/nrl-s-football-department-cap-creates-sydney-or-the-bush-divide-20180628-p4zob3.html )  says:

    “The NRL cover the cost of 27 economy return flights, 13 twin rooms and breakfast, as well as hotel transfers.”

     

    Catalans Travel

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    6 hours ago, Dave T said:

    I'm not sure of the detail, but I do recall reading articles about clubs having to cover costs in the Aussie game too. I don't think this is as unique as we make out. 

    I’m pretty certain the NRL pays for travel expenses. If they didn’t clubs like the Cowboys and Warriors would suffer significantly.

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