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Australian teams have little time to turn their Super Rugby trans-Tasman series around before finals – ABC News
Australia’s five Super Rugby teams all lost their round one matches to the Kiwis and will have to bounce back swiftly to have any hopes of making the finals.
The way the inaugural Super Rugby trans-Tasman series is formatted, there simply isn’t time for teams to build momentum and launch a late-season tilt at a finals series.
Comprising just five rounds and a one-off final for the top teams, the Australian and New Zealand cross-over series is most definitely a sprint, not a marathon.
Five games before a final means that the 10 teams were always going to need at least four wins to be a chance of finishing in the top two. As it stands after one round of…
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