Crowd puller

Here's the pub where I more than likely will stop for a beer following the Western Force's first ever game on Friday night.

The Force will face the might of two-time champions the ACT Brumbies in the first round of the southern hemisphere Super 14 provincial rugby tournament.

Subiaco Oval, normally home to the mighty Dockers and over-rated Eagles Australian football sides, will be bulging, with the current Australian provincial rugby crowd record of 42,600 expected to fall.

The Force's CEO reckons a new record would, "show the traditional rugby powerbases on the eastern seaboard that the new home of Australian rugby is in the west."

Get your hand off it, mate.