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Moono75
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This from a Greg Growden article back in April 2017.
www.espn.com.au/rugby/story/_/id/19116818/aru-bows-new-zealand-pressure-cut-super-rugby-franchise
ESPN has been told by several high-ranking sources that Fox Sports executives were eager for a Super 15 format that excluded the three latest additions to the tournament -- the Jaguares, Sunwolves and Southern Kings. Fox Sports' preference is understood to be a competition involving five teams each from New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. However, Fox Sports was told by ARU officials that "pressure had been applied" to get rid of one of their Australian teams. So Fox Sports relented, opting 'to fall into line'.
Seems like the ARU have been the master manipulators to get what they wanted out of this process. Unfortunately for them its going to turn out to be their own self-destruction and to be marked with the eternal stain of "un-Australian".
www.espn.com.au/rugby/story/_/id/19116818/aru-bows-new-zealand-pressure-cut-super-rugby-franchise
ESPN has been told by several high-ranking sources that Fox Sports executives were eager for a Super 15 format that excluded the three latest additions to the tournament -- the Jaguares, Sunwolves and Southern Kings. Fox Sports' preference is understood to be a competition involving five teams each from New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. However, Fox Sports was told by ARU officials that "pressure had been applied" to get rid of one of their Australian teams. So Fox Sports relented, opting 'to fall into line'.
Seems like the ARU have been the master manipulators to get what they wanted out of this process. Unfortunately for them its going to turn out to be their own self-destruction and to be marked with the eternal stain of "un-Australian".