We need to get some perspective as well in how well as a squad we are performing, we are sitting top of the table going into Las Vegas and our aim to be in the top four at the end of the season, but we are hungry for cup wins along the way.

Mike Friday

The big thing in America is, if you can't be an NFL player, an NBA play or a baseball player, (but) you can be an Olympian, then that's the next best thing, the Olympics captures the imagination of the sporting public in America. If rugby can position itself and we can do well as an Olympic sport, then all of a sudden it will hit the eyes of so many more Americans.