RugbyDave

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Despite being a long-suffering Australian rugby fan, I have to agree with Foster. Australian provincial teams are too weak to justify four or five teams in any NZ-Australia Super rugby comp. Australia lacks enough quality rugby talent to sustain four or five teams. All the playing talent is in Sydney and Brisbane and ACT, Victoria and WA have not yet developed a critical mass of quality schoolboy or club players from which to recruit for provincial teams. As a result, we have NSW, Qld, ACT, Victoria and WA scouts and development managers all walking the same turf of the Sydney and Brisbane schools competitions and the representative under age competitions in NSW and looking for the next Kalyn Ponga (who went to Anglican Church Grammar School in the Brisbane GPS comp) and Cooper Cronk (who went to St Laurence’s College in the Brisbane TAS comp). Even if they find such talent, they cannot compete financially with the NRL clubs. I am very pessimistic. Australian rugby will have to shrink back to greatness. We have diluted the product too much by having five teams.

Weak teams a burden in Super Rugby: All Blacks coach Ian Foster

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