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Spartan, you are looking at this through the prism of a disappointed and aggrieved rugby supporter.
If you look at it from the viewpoint of a hard nosed unsentimental billionaire businessman, the answer is fairly obvious.
More pragmatically, the chances of RA (and especially the current shambles version of infighting and hairpulling) approving someone else having a rugby competition when they couldn't would be absolutely zero or less.
'I may be a Senator but I am not stupid'
https://omny.fm/shows/the-alan-jones-breakfast-show/cameron-clyne
Link to Senate Report http://www.aph.gov.au/senate_ca
https://www.change.org/p/rugby-australia-petition-for-cameron-clyne-to-resign-as-chairman-of-the-rugby-australia-board
Plus the NZ border is closed tighter than Australia's borders. HK and Malaysia have full border closures to foreigners.
Fiji and Samoa borders will be closed for a long time yet. They don't have funding to their health systems to contemplate otherwise. Samoa had a deadly measles outbreak only a few months ago and even their basic immunisation programs are patchy at best.
The other thing is, even if an extremely unlikely lifting of all these restrictions occurred in only 30 DAYS from today ... there would only be TWO rounds of Rapid Rugby's regular season left.
Plus GRR couldn't be pushed back in the calendar because these countries already have other commitments.
I guess you slept through the long drawn out process of getting WR endorsement for GRR, which was made specifically conditional on getting the approval of all the individual unions...
https://www.world.rugby/news/379046
They're probably not getting in. They probably won't be playing, either. Not any time soon.
Unless Australian Sunwolves like Efi Ma'afu, Ben Hyne, Michael Stolberg, Corey Thomas, Jake Schatz, Alex Horan, Jordan Jackson-Hope, James Dargaville, Ben Lucas are already in. They would then need to add another 20 fringe guys from within Australia to form a squad.
Why would RA/Sunwolves bother? Well, to endeavour to fulfill part of their broadcast arrangement and pay their players and staff.
Endeavour is not the same as "make it happen" - the likelihood is it won't.
(The non-Japanese Sunwolves have left Japan, with maybe another dozen plus in NZ, I'd say)
My understanding on all these early start scenarios is that teams would come in, do the necessary quarantine, then stay for the duration. Would still be dependent on getting a dispensation to enter the state/country though.
What, you reckon go the whole claim asylum route...?