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A pacific island team wouldn't be about expanding into new markets, it'd be about increasing quality content in the existing markets! Especially in Australia and New Zealand. They are good to watch and people would pay to see them. This is the most important factor. Plus the population of people...

Hopefully any doubts Argentina will be able to field a competitive super rugby team will be put to bed now. Sure, they won't be able to attract their very best players back from Europe, but add to this squad a completely professional set up plus some of their existing pros and they'll surely...

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What were the scores in those trials? Surely the Pampas would have been a bit of a mismatch given they beat a pretty strong Waratahs A team in the PRC. Unless the Pampas ran out only their younger and 2nd string players against the Colts?

The actual Argentina B side plays in the June internationals (they have a separate squad for the RC). It's made up mostly of players based in Europe. Argentina's superstars may continue to play in Europe but a lot of their good players and particularly their best young players that would be on...

What I would like to see is a 15 round trans tasman competition (including 2 weeks for semi finals and final) played at the same time as an extended Currie Cup or South Africa plus Argentina league. Once these leagues finish have a completely separate 6 week super rugby cup tournament involving...

The Pampas are a development side of young amateur players. Any Argentinian teams in super rugby would be professional teams that would include some of their international players that currently play in Europe.

Maybe this will open the possibility of a 6th super rugby team in Australia when the broadcasting rights come up again. I think there's definitely scope to increase the number of professional teams here - starting with a side in Western Sydney. We don't have the playing depth in Australia to...

That's pretty pessimistic. I'd say almost every team that makes it to the Olympic competition will have a chance of a medal. 7's is a bit like soccer or baseball, where inferior teams can win one off games reasonably regularly. Take the last 7's world cup as an example...with Wales beating...

You could also play such tournaments over a series of nights. Say from 6pm-9pm over a few days. Would be ideal for tv and player welfare if this would be played in summer months. For week days this would allow people to attend. But you wouldn't get the big names (i.e. the guys who might win...

The ARU need to give opportunities for our best 15's players to play some 7's. Even if it's just in the form of 1 tournament before the super rugby season between super rugby sides (and other invited teams to fill the numbers). We need a way of identifying which players will be ideal for the...

That's pretty interesting. Hard to see commercially successful and competitive 8 team conferences in each of Asia, North America and South America any time soon though. A more practical shorter term option would be to have 2 large closed conferences with the top 4 in each making a finals series...

I actually think it would be a good decision. For those saying we don't have the depth - I agree, but that doesn't matter because rugby is a global game with a global player base. Let rugby league and AFL worry about whether they have the player depth for extra teams. The main question should be...

I'd start the season with a 1 day 7's tournament of 10-12 teams featuring our 5 super 15 teams, plus maybe one or two of the NZ sides, invitational pacific island sides, plus a rugby league club or two...the last is crucial and would bring a huge amount of publicity. Other potential teams could...