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Japan and the Pacific Islands for Aussie Super 9's!
Let's have one of these in WA! Click this link: Saitama Super Arena - New Perth Stadium?
ah, sense has prevailed for once!
Logistics aside, i am really excited to get japan involved - will really put them up a couple of rungs on the international ladder.
What i want to know, is how are they going to select a team? will it be the equivalent of the cherry blossoms?
I hope so, although without any players plying their trade in Europe. Or is Japanese rugby rich enough that they don't need to go to France?
Given that the rules on foreign players in Super Rugby seem to be set by the National authorities, rather than by SuperRugby itself, they could elect to accept any number of foreigners; hope they don't, though.
Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon
This expansion idea is bad and SANZAR should feel bad.
/didnt read the article/
but with the RWC in Japan in 2019, this can only be a good thing for the sport.
Japan is probably the only expansion I would like to see in Super Rugby. The Argentinian team is too much for me. Instead, seeing as they take part in the SANZAR Rugby Championship, I would have no restrictions on Argentina players in Super Rugby franchises, especially as most of their best players play in Europe, so they wouldn't flood the competition.
Hopefully Japanese/Asian money can flow into competition and we stem the flow of players to Europe. Maybe even have a few more Pacific Island players in Super Rugby as a result.
Japan and the Pacific Islands for Aussie Super 9's!
Let's have one of these in WA! Click this link: Saitama Super Arena - New Perth Stadium?
Expansion is a good idea....it's the way this one is structured which is bloody stupid. Rather than using the geography to build three conferences of equal size with relatively limited travel schedules, they have chosen instead to create four conferences of vastly disproportionate size, with the expansion teams bth forced to play their away games in the location that is the most geographically distant from their own.
to call it a Clusterf&*k is an insult to any self-respecting Clusterf&*k
C'mon the
I wonder, if they stir up the international private sector enough with this expansion into South America and Asia, maybe they'll be able to raise enough sponsorship so that the conferences could be done away with and everyone gets to play each other again? It'll be less games and less Murdoch money, but it would be a helluva competition, especially if they have a slightly bigger finals series.
Japan and the Pacific Islands for Aussie Super 9's!
Let's have one of these in WA! Click this link: Saitama Super Arena - New Perth Stadium?