We need adequate preparations now that we are meeting the defending champions. I hope travel arrangements will be sorted out well in advance to avoid the problems we encountered last week.

We have the capability, but we have to plan early.

In addition to the tournament, we hope to get a coach from Japan, who will be in the team as a technical adviser ahead of the world event in Japan.

After that, we hope a 'pipeline' of teams from North Carolina will be able to travel to the Gulf area to help with recovery and rebuilding ministries,

a desperate move made with the hope of eliciting some sympathy from the court to permit him to spend some part of the remainder of his life outside of jail.

People are telling Ernie to travel less because he is tiring himself out. I hope he doesn't listen to that nonsense. I used to travel round the world with six children, no jet, and it was 30 hours from Johannesburg to America. Ernie's got a bed on his plane, for goodness sake. It's all in the mind.