As the Super Rugby season plods along, for the Lions, what lies at the end is ominous. With the Southern Kings guaranteed Super Rugby participation next year, and the competition not expanding (SARU are really crossing their fingers on that one), wha...
When the new Super Rugby franchise was awarded to Melbourne, there was a healthy bout of scepticism doing the rounds in South Africa as to whether Australia's second most populous city -- with four million inhabitants -- would take to rugby union.
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There is an ominous threat hanging over the established order of the oval ball, from lands large and rich in diversity. Since the coming of the professional era, rugby has slowly been spreading itself across continents with the IRB aiming to make the...