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The folly of Super Rugby 2021 – The Roar
Super Rugby had its flaws, but it did serve to highlight certain truths: South Africa has not stopped producing work-class rugby players and Australia, largely speaking, has. The deeper issue is that coach development stagnated in the early 2000s, and the rug…

Super Rugby had its flaws, but it did serve to highlight certain truths: South Africa has not stopped producing work-class rugby players and Australia, largely speaking, has.
The deeper issue is that coach development stagnated in the early 2000s, and the rugby community of Australia has found no effective way to first understand and then remediate the problem.
This would, however, seem to be the least of the concerns if recent statements attributed to Rugby Australia chairman Hamish McLennan…