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Brown, who has been plagued by hamstring injuries throughout his career, suffered the latest setback at the team’s training session [...]

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mudskipper said | August 22nd 2008 @ 12:43am | Report comment

Has the Force found Tim Johnston CE0 of Firepower their key sponsor on their northern tour yet…? He is still holding out on many player and team payments….Sorry to hear about the player injuries, but who is paying the contracts?

BLR said | August 22nd 2008 @ 11:55am | Report comment

There is a variety of smaller sponsors supporting the Force, don’t over-estimate the value Firepowers contribution has had to them. Keep in mind that the figures being bandied around as being owned turned out to be ten times the actual figures owed. There is no immediate payment problem with players on the northern tour, as any problem exists with your larger Wallaby players, these payments will be organised amongst the other sponsors, perhaps even by the new sleeve sponsor, who I hear will be Vodaphone. Firepower isn’t even a sponsor anymore so why are they their key sponsor for this tour?