I wonder if aru ever had contingency plans should sanzaar and.super rugby unravel.
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This is my biggest bug-bear.
If, and I'm happy to recognise now that perhaps NZRZU position is possibly less entrenched than I thought it was, we were to be locked in to a Super Rugby that inevitably continued an on-going decline in professional rugby in Australia (yes I acknowledge the grass roots debate even if not in agreement with all of it), we really need a contingency plan.
Moreso, I dont see how that contingency could cope with a team being cut. So for me this is a line that cant be crossed.
Can you imagine a scenario, lets say Force gets cut. One or two years and Super implodes. "Gidday Perth, how'd you like to re-join professional rugby with a new domestic comp?"
I'm happy to perceive a future Super comp with fewer teams. Selected on a representational basis out of a professional comp.
I'd be happy to see a rational draw on a cut down Super, trans Tasman style, plus friends if need be.
I'd be happy to see a Super rugy comp with SA, NZ and friends (if needs be) that was a rational structure, allows Aus teams continuity in home games and commercials of the derbies.
We have obviously received little formally at this stage, but positions that were formerly voiced as indelible achieved none of the above for Australia.
That contingency is required, and for me dictates we can not allow a team to be sacrificed.