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Japan has a yen for showing clubs matter

CHRIS HEWETT

ALL that publicity about the setting up of a new “global” 12-a-side tournament and positioning it as rugby’s answer to cricket’s IPL has been exposed for the pie-inthe-sky nonsense it was – not by a downbeat assessment of its practicalities by the governing class, but by the decision of three top-end Wallabies to skip the autumn international series.
Union’s IPL already exists, in the form of the newly revamped and heavily re-financed elite club competition in Japan. How else to explain the absence of Quade Cooper, Samu Kerevi and Sean McMahon from the Australian party about to...

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