THE Aussies are used to baking hot temperatures and droughts, but as sporting meltdowns go they do not come much worse than the one experienced by Rugby Union in Australia this week.
We knew that the game Down Under was not in a good place with the failure of the Australian Super Rugby teams to win a single game against their New Zealand counterparts this season, but things took a dramatic turn for the worse on Friday when the ARU announced the axing of the Western Force as one of their five professional franchises.
The uproar over the decision to wind up the Perth-based Force is based on...