Aussie rugby boss tackles 'elephant in the room'

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The Waratahs volition big the Brumbies astatine their caller Allianz Stadium location successful a blockbuster Australian play opener to the 2023 Super Rugby Pacific season.

And arsenic the 2023 gully was unveiled, rugby bosses connected some sides of the Tasman were breaking breadstuff arsenic an ongoing Australasian confederation firms for 2024 and beyond.

The defending champion Crusaders volition big the Chiefs connected February 24 to footwear disconnected 2023 earlier the Waratahs-Brumbies derby to implicit a Friday nighttime treble header.

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All 12 teams volition past converge connected Melbourne for the instrumentality of 'Super Round' successful the 2nd week of the competition.

But portion rugby fans tin present commencement circling dates connected their calendar (click present for the afloat draw), the biggest question successful the crippled Down Under is what volition hap long-term.

Rugby Australia president Hamish McLennan told Wide World of Sports his menace to locomotion distant from New Zealand and spell home astatine nine level remained unrecorded this period contempt immoderate productive trans-Tasman discussions.

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But successful thing of a bully cop, atrocious bull routine, RA main enforcement Andy Marinos told reporters that things were looking affirmative regarding a caller deal.

"I don't deliberation it's an elephant successful the room," Marinos said.

"It's a analyzable conversation. We're looking to unafraid a semipermanent aboriginal and partnership.

"We're some committed to proceed to turn rugby crossed the Asia-Pacific region, we're speaking each the time, and we're beauteous assured we're going to get to a solution beauteous soon... you can't spell into a dialog without knowing some parties are going to person to compromise determination on the line.

"That's conscionable the quality of nonrecreational sport. As overmuch arsenic determination is this aggravated rivalry connected the field, it sometimes does transcend into the boardroom.

"We each privation to bash what's champion for our ain backyard, but astatine the aforesaid clip it's making definite we elevate that and look astatine what's champion for the competition, the region, and however it's going to assistance america stay beardown and competitory arsenic countries connected the planetary stage."

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