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SANZAAR to cut 3 teams in 2018
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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 850625" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>This can't work with 18 teams because 17 rounds plus two bye rounds for each team is 19 weeks, plus a three week playoff makes the competition 22 weeks long. The final cannot be beyond the end of June in the new WR season, which means Super Rugby would have have to start in the third week of January, bringing the start of pre-season back to about Boxing Day, only two weeks after the end of the EOYT. </p><p></p><p>SARU, the NZRU and I am guessing the ARU and UAR would never buy into a schedule like this, and the RPA would not allow it anyway so its moot!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 850625, member: 20605"] This can't work with 18 teams because 17 rounds plus two bye rounds for each team is 19 weeks, plus a three week playoff makes the competition 22 weeks long. The final cannot be beyond the end of June in the new WR season, which means Super Rugby would have have to start in the third week of January, bringing the start of pre-season back to about Boxing Day, only two weeks after the end of the EOYT. SARU, the NZRU and I am guessing the ARU and UAR would never buy into a schedule like this, and the RPA would not allow it anyway so its moot! [/QUOTE]
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