Pacific Rugby Players Welfare (PRPW) has written an open letter to WORLD RUGBY regarding the nomination of Mr Francis Kean (Fiji). “Given the strength of numerous bids I thought this was the best opportunity we were ever going to have to get a team in. NZ Rugby have been rebuked by Dan Leo, CEO of the Pacific Rugby Players Welfare organisation, for their decision not to expand Super Rugby in 2021 with a new Pasifika team. Pacific Rugby Players Welfare has been strengthened today with the inclusion of Inoke Afeaki to the PRPW Board. PRPW has called on some of the game's top unions to agree a profit-sharing deal to boost the Pacific Island nations' international programmes. “It’s something that our particular group hasn’t considered but, by the same token, if it came to that, quite frankly, I would do anything to get this across the line,” Williams, who is tied to the Moana Pasifika bid, said of possibly joining Super Rugby AU. “[But] we don’t have any bias towards that at all. PRPW wishes to clarify our position over a proposed letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC). COPYRIGHT 2017 PACIFIC RUGBY PLAYERS. "That's a really short runway to be able to pull together a high-performing squad, build the roster of players, contracting - all of that," he said. Pacific Rugby Players represent the collective welfare of current and emerging professional Pacific Island rugby players across the world. Established in 2013, Pacific Rugby Players looks after the collective welfare interest of male and female national representatives of the Fiji, Samoa and Tonga as well as the many pacific island professional rugby players worldwide. Simon Zebo on why he left Ireland and his situation with current boss Andy... Pacific players boss: Why a Pasifika franchise could go to Australia instead of 'arrogant' New Zealand, Everyone wants to see a Pasifika Super franchise but expecting NZR to bankroll it in these times is a stretch too far, 'Now or never': Pasifika side hits out at New Zealand Rugby's 'shady' Super Rugby snub. NZ Rugby chairman Brent Impey stunned the Pasifika rugby community last week, Sir Bryan Williams urges NZ Rugby to rethink snub of Pasifika team for 2021 Super Rugby, NZ rugby players boss Rob Nichol: 'This is a missed opportunity to embrace Pasifika', NZ Rugby chairman Brent Impey on Pasifika expansion snub: 'They're just not ready', Super Rugby: Players boss Rob Nichol urges NZ Rugby to back Pasifika bid in 2021, some of the Wallabies’ most respected players have Pasifika heritage, whose organisation is chaired by Hale T-Pole, Medical student's career up in the air after letting her flatmate secretly watch a surgery, Flight attendant 'in and out of consciousness' after hitting her head during turbulent flight, Burger King unveils massive McDonald's-trolling burger, All Blacks vs Wallabies: Beauden Barrett ruled out, Damian McKenzie to start, Dashcam records 'idiot' driver's near-miss on State Highway 6, Covid-19: Four new cases of Covid-19, all in managed isolation, Live: Election campaign trail hits Auckland, One dead, multiple injured after police pursuit in Northland, Children escape car to help rescue trapped driver, Covid-19: New daily record as coronavirus cases hit more than 350,000.