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Anyone involved in club rugby will probably be half aware that the new national cup competition (s) are variations of the Papa John's Cup, championship, shield bowl etc and seemingly offer national competition for pretty much every club at every level. At lower level I think it's straight regional knock out (ie South West so yesterday a couple of teams from Cornwall traveled to Somerset and Bristol) and a little higher up there are regional groups of 4..my team for example unluckily have 2 away trips with total travel of 740 miles whist another team travels 40 miles in the group. Anyway, St Austell defied expectations and a few late changes to win away at Matson (who'd won their league undefeated) and now face Marlborough at home who won well at Chippenham. I noticed on the Marlborough teamsheet at least half a dozen Pacific Island players a number of whom have A caps etc.... similarly Chippenham teamsheet seemed to have a few islander names also. Are there links with forces here, is this area synonymous with Pacific islander communities or have they just bought in (in one way or another) half a dozen quality players from the 3rd tier of NZ rugby etc? @c00ps -;sort of your neck of the woods