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Wallabies legend Tim Horan wants Pacific Islands included in Super Rugby revamp

Wallabies legend Tim Horan wants Pacific Islands included in Super Rugby revamp

By Naveel Krishant
01/05/2020
Wallabies great Tim Horan (right) lifts the Webb Ellis Cup when Australia won the RWC in 1999. [image: rugby.com.au]

Wallabies great Tim Horan has called for Pacific Island nations to be part of a new-look Super Rugby model, with their teams based out of cities in Australia and New Zealand.

The Sanzaar competition looks set to undergo a major revamp from next year, with New Zealand Rugby having announced a wholesale review into every aspect following the outbreak of COVID-19.

International travel has been an exorbitant feature of the competition and with many flight paths currently closed off by the coronavirus crisis, there is widespread speculation the teams from South Africa and Argentina will be omitted from an Asia-Pacific model of Super Rugby.

Horan suggested teams from those continents could play in their own conference and potentially meet the best Asia-Pacific teams in a play-off series.

[Source: FOX News]

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