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financial planning. However let's be honest that's not the reason you're listening to this podcast.

You're listening because I'm about to be joined by Mark Evans, ex-CEO of Harlequins, formerly of the

NRL, currently of Drewa and absolutely a rugby business guru.

Mark, how are you?

I'm good, JB, you know, two wins in a row the last couple of weeks, so we're pretty

buoying. now just before the

podcast started we were chatting about the weather over and over in Fiji and we had a

we had an email and this email was praising you guys for actually playing the game when a lot of people

would have called it off.

Yes, it's tricky because to call things off it's really got to be completely unplayable because

rescheduling the game is very hard. People have booked on flight and you know it's a long way from anywhere and you push your

opposition into a five-day turnaround particularly when they're from Perth which is a

14-15-hour trip. There's a lot of incentive to get the thing off.

And also, you know, the pitch was in quite good Nick in the sense it it had a lot of grass on it

there wasn't much mud at the beginning it just it's rain for the last two weeks

but it stopped forained for the last two weeks, really.

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