He flew here last week to look around and check our operation. We didn't make him an offer then and still haven't.

This always seems to get thrown at us.

All that support could go up in smoke unless Perth is a success on the field.

The first guy who ran at him the other night was cut in half.

We've delivered on the challenge to grow the player base in Western Australia but it will take time to develop some of these youngsters into potential Wallabies.

We see him as a 12, and he does, too, now.

The feedback was that it's not the direction in life they're heading right now. They've essentially retired from that level.

I know of one million-dollar player who gets about half his money from a commercial arrangement and no one over there (east coast) has kicked up about it. What we're doing isn't new. Commercial payments have been around rugby for some time.