The rugby-rugby league charity stoush at Auckland's ASB Stadium is a 2800-seat sellout and the Youth Suicide Awareness Trust looks likely to benefit by $500,000.
The combatants are seriously in training. The league camp has apparently had some injuries, but no one is talking because they don't want to give the
opposition any advantage.
The rugby boys are about to have a real practice.
Buck Shelford, Frank Bunce, Peter Fatialofa, Graham Purvis and Kevin Boroevich are said to have agreed to a "secret" forerunner next Saturday where they will step in the ring with amateur and professional boxers.
It is rumoured that, to lift the intensity, the boxers will get $100 if they can sit their footballing opposites down.
Organiser Dean Lonergan says league supporters should wear the yellow Suicide Awareness Trust pins - $5 from Stirling Sports - on their left breast and rugby supporters on the right.
"Left for league, right for rugby," is how Lonergan worked that idea out.
Donations can be made to the trust on 0900-70-500.
