Super Rugby and the United Rugby Championship move into quarter-finals this weekend, and Major League Rugby will follow the weekend after. Jed Holloway was in the Verblitz squad at the same time, and he’s been one of the form players of Super Rugby Pacific this season. “The bigger picture is obviously trying to get a team into Super Rugby, because it’s the same time zone,” he told us on The Roar Rugby Podcast last week. A 12-team JANZPac competition at this time of year before the July Tests would also open the door for Super Rugby Pacific to revert to the old 11-games-plus-finals format that Super 12 used quite successfully from inception. And it would need a proper, European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) type of governing body, too, not the current country rugby committee set-up that seems to run Super Rugby Pacific.

Source: Stuff May 30, 2022 20:17 UTC