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<blockquote data-quote="Brigantine" data-source="post: 848898" data-attributes="member: 73940"><p>I'm coming around to the view that Super Rugby can become a lot smaller. Fewer franchises, much shorter season, after which the same franchises can be included in domestic competitions with other teams.</p><p></p><p>11 weeks (plus 2 of finals) of Super 12 with Jags, Wolves, 4 teams each from NZ and SA, 2 from Aus, and then use (some of) the other 7 weeks for an expanded Currie Cup, domestic aussie comp with the 5 franchises (and perhaps the Blues too), and an expanded Mitre 10 Cup (perhaps including a smaller aussie east coast team or two, perhaps even a pacific team).</p><p></p><p></p><p>Everyone's focussing so much on what would make Super Rugby work, and not on what role Super Rugby should have in making Southern Hemisphere rugby work. Perhaps that role *isn't* spending 8+ weeks duplicating every other comp.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brigantine, post: 848898, member: 73940"] I'm coming around to the view that Super Rugby can become a lot smaller. Fewer franchises, much shorter season, after which the same franchises can be included in domestic competitions with other teams. 11 weeks (plus 2 of finals) of Super 12 with Jags, Wolves, 4 teams each from NZ and SA, 2 from Aus, and then use (some of) the other 7 weeks for an expanded Currie Cup, domestic aussie comp with the 5 franchises (and perhaps the Blues too), and an expanded Mitre 10 Cup (perhaps including a smaller aussie east coast team or two, perhaps even a pacific team). Everyone's focussing so much on what would make Super Rugby work, and not on what role Super Rugby should have in making Southern Hemisphere rugby work. Perhaps that role *isn't* spending 8+ weeks duplicating every other comp. [/QUOTE]
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