James Parsons

You hit the ground running, you had a new coaching group, like there's no pre-season for international teams.

So you take another week.

Yeah, it really squeezes.

There's no doubt it's a big market.

It's a business, professional sport.

I don't think it's whether Super Rugby wants them.

I think it's whether the Japanese top league wants to be in.

It's not like Super Rugby's in control, I don't think.

There would be...

a huge appetite for that market.

Make no posts about it, how it works.

You look at all the super sides that are now going over there for pre-season games.

They're trying to engage in terms of sponsorship for clubs, having access into that market and that money.

That's why there's so much excitement around the Aussie teams doing better in Super Rugby because Australia's bigger.

bigger markets.

Look, Super Rugby would love that.

Super Rugby would love to break into California or Hawaii and have fan bases there.

It's about having the people that can do it in those parts of the world want to do it.

because it's going to cost money.

And, like, I even know that there was, you know, as they were looking at that global comp, what was it going to be, the club comp, world club competition?