The two managers were not unfamiliar with touring sides, having organsied cricket teams to Australia, and the rugby tour was a follow on from the financially disastrous England Cricket tour of 1887 The tour was not an economic success and lost both managers money.
The two managers were not unfamiliar with touring sides, having organsied cricket teams to Australia. The rugby tour was a follow on from the financially disastrous England Cricket tour of 1887. The tour was not an economic success the financially disastrous England Cricket tour. The rugby tour lost both managers money.