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There has been a lot of controversy around the future of Super Rugby from 2016 onwards, where we will see three teams join the competition.
One will be the Southern Kings from South Africa, giving them their wish of a sixth Super Rugby side. This is largely undisputed as the way to go. They have the audience and the desire for it, and it seems to make sense.
While there was plenty of debate over who would fill the other two spots, a decision has been made, and there will be a Japanese and Argentinean team joining the competition from 2016.
Again, the team from Argentina is relatively uncontroversial. They have a presence in the Rugby Championship now, and just earned their first win in the competition with a victory over Australia at home.
Whether they can make an impact at Super Rugby level remains to be seen, but it seems like they have the talent to be very competitive.
More doubt lingers about the Japanese team. There are many factors at play with the decision to include them in the competition. Economic, cultural, off-field structure and on-field ability were surely all discussed at length before the choice was made to include them over other options.
The choice of who plays isn’t even the complex bit.
The new structure of Super Rugby is downright baffling if you look at the proposal, and the video above, created by the people at The Future Super Rugby, has a good explanation of what could happen.
The creators of the video meant for it to be a discussion starter, and have given us at The Roar permission to host it, and give it a home for debate among Roarers.
So what do you think of their alternative proposal in the video? Or SANZAR’s proposal? Which one do you prefer?
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