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SARU wants one more Super side

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:00

The website Rugby Heaven reports that SARU does not want to leave SANZAR but wants an other side in Super rugby, which is soon due to be a Super 15 in any case.

The newspaper reports a conversation in Johannesburg with New Zealand's rugby boss Steve Tew who says that "there was no appetite for SARU to break away from the southern hemisphere alliance. Their main issue, he said, was getting another Super rugby team".

SARU wants a sixth team in order to accommodate the Southern Kings without having to jettison one of its present five sides - the Bulls, the Stormers, the Lions, the Sharks and the Cheetahs. For SARU the question of the Southern Kings, promised a place in Super rugby, the issue causes strong political pressure.

Tew said of SARU: ''There's no truth that they want to leave. The biggest pressing issue for South African rugby is that they have a sixth team they'd like to have involved in a professional rugby competition.

''We're currently doing some work to see if that might be possible in Super rugby, but they're also looking at other options and that's where the basis of this comment came from, we understand.

''There are more rugby players registered in that province [Eastern Cape] than there are in New Zealand. So it's a big rugby area and it's currently not got a foothold."

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