WALLABIES maverick Quade Cooper sees Super Rugby being turned on its head in the years to come as the growth of rugby in Japan heralds a new market for the sport, even suggesting a Super Rugby team should travel to play in the Top League.
The Sunwolves, founded and bankrolled by the Japan RFU, crashed and burned in Super Rugby but the Top League, separate from the JRFU much like Premiership Rugby is from the RFU, has the capital and expansion ideas to overhaul Sanzaar’s prominence in rugby outside of Europe says Cooper.
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