New-fangled PRO 14 is disaster waiting to happen

COLIN BOAG

There is no shortage of top-class rugby players, but my goodness the game seems to be very light on worldclass administrators. You would think that the lessons of Super Rugby would have resonated across the globe – too much travel, the madness of not playing every team in the league home and away – but apparently not, and the PRO12 is now the PRO14, with a structure that is desperately flawed before it even begins.
With 12 teams, two of which were Italian basket cases, and travel already a problem for players and fans, now they’ve stuck in two South African t...

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