Australian rugby crisis: backing for idea to send players to develop in New Zealand

The radical proposal of Australia’s eight NRC teams competing in the Mitre 10 Cup has merit although doubts remain over notion of a ‘one silver bullet’ fixAnother week of Super Rugby has passed and still no Australian team has beaten a New Zealand side in 2017. That’s nought from 15 attempts – up until this point, Australia’s worst return in the history of Super Rugby trans-Tasman clashes.Desperate times call for desperate measures. Why not look at the hitherto unexplored idea of outsourcing professional player development to New Zealand on a short-term basis while Australian rugby rebuilds it…