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The Anglo-Welsh Cup was primarily used as a development tool for the regions and Premiership clubs. I think the whole idea of the Griquas/Pumas entering Pro 14 is somewhat fanciful as I really cannot see the Pro 14 nations willingly excepting anything less than the current Super Rugby franchises.

Is it just me or do the teams this season seem especially strong? Above and beyond previous seasons. Hopefully that's a positive signs of things to come.

It appears they want a 4/4 split which would give them 400 contracts with the other 50 being 7s etc..

They are also supposedly going to essentially halve their professional playing numbers from 900 to 450 while making a number of the existing provincial sides amateur/semi-pro at best. The idea is that the professional franchises will then be able to contract 50 deep.

https://www.ultimaterugby.com/news/saru-president%3A-sa-teams-%22better-off%22-playing-in-the-northern-hemisphere/608095# From the current President of SA Rugby.

I'd be all for the Rebels moving across to WSR joining the Force and the mooted WS team. As I've suggested previously that would offer an few interesting opportunities with a 3/3 split. As long as there are some rules around recruit set out from early on.

I've suggested just how they could be assessed head to head in a number of previous posts. We could either run a short form Cup competition in the post season of both competition leading into the July window or we could look to emulate the succesful trial concept from this year with a Super Rugby v WSR...

The NRC but hopefully better resourced and promoted.

Part of the reason I suggested pushing the Rebels across to WSR so that it features three Australian teams while maintaining the original three in Super Rugby was to address some of these issues. The pipeline side of the equation being one of the primary purposes. Have RA green light WSR with set...

The US has its own thing going on that should be given time to work itself out and see how it's progressing. Having SANZAAR looking to interfere will not achieve much if anything short term and will likely hold the country back medium to long term. Regarding Hawaii. Time zone wise it's 20 hours...

Teams in the US are a pipe dream outside perhaps some kind of combined PI based out of Hawaii. Apart from that. No chance.

https://www.supersport.com/rugby/super-rugby/news/180827_Sanzaar_aims_to_finalise_Super_Rugby_plans_in_November I'm just going to leave this here in regards to the insanity that is Super Rugby at present.

Then what's the point of Super Rugby then? The idea is to have most of the best available talent playing locally in order to be selected and provide the best possible content. Now whether Super Rugby delivers this nowadays is debatable. What isn't is that once you open the door for open selection beyond...

You could argue that it would free up more resources to actively compete for the top line talent coming through the ranks.

We could look to cut the Rebels adrift and let them look toward WSR as their new destination. Stipulate that they can source talent from overseas based Australian players and local ranks. Bring players back as was one of the stated intents of the WSR to start. From there we can focus on...

Whats that gremlin said now? Edit: Never mind I've seen the news article now.

So the LSR has been confirmed for 2020. Which gives them about 18 months to get things in place. as above there will be 8 teams spread across five countries with most teams featuring local players supplemented by both Argentine and PI talent. Pretty sure it will be over 14 rounds. So full home...

Yeah, it's a typo. Meant Mexico. I've fixed it.

And there's more news on the Liga Sur-Americano or Sud-Americano dpending on whether it's in Portguese or Spanish. The LSR has seen some reason and will only involve teams from the original 5 nations with Argentina having 2, Uruguay 2, Brazil 2 and Chile and Paraguay 1 each respectively. There...

Looks like there will be 9 teams in the MLR next season and the cap will rise to somewhere between $450-500k USD for season two. LA seems to have fallen short of the necessary financial requirements in the time frame provided and will now undertake an exhibition season leading into joining...