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Sep 24, 2026
Alex ChapmanHOST
The four current Australian teams, Melbourne Rebels, Fijian Drua, Moana Pasifika, which is based in Western Sydney, or separate Samoan and Tongan teams.
Alex ChapmanHOST
The Sunshine Coast Sunwolves, the Sydney Jaguars or Waratahs, and one additional franchise.
Alex ChapmanHOST
The rosters would include a draft pool of New Zealand's players.
Alex ChapmanHOST
The national selection then performance determines squads for the Rugby Championship, Four Nations, and end of year tours.
Alex ChapmanHOST
The key benefits and the additional ideas.
Alex ChapmanHOST
Established fan bases reviving the Rebels, Sunwolves, and Waratahs alongside a revitalized Moana Pasifika, which builds on existing fan support.
Alex ChapmanHOST
There's reduced travel, which significantly lowers travel demands across both phases.
Alex ChapmanHOST
Post-season Champions League, the winner of the NPC in the Australian league could play the Japanese and South African franchises in a Champions League style playoff.
Steven NobleGUEST
We're playing in Sri Lanka with a lot of.
Steven NobleGUEST
former capped players and guys from the Sunwolves and guys who played in Japan playing Northampton and then the same weekend was the University Sevens which only happens every four years and I was watching what was the game it was like Norway versus Mexico or something on a Friday night being played in Stellenbosch so like these are the crazy things we get to watch
Huw GriffinHOST
There you go.
Huw GriffinHOST
Steve's credentials listed out in front of you.
LashHOST
10 hours, okay.
LashHOST
And the time zone's three hours, is it? Yeah, we used to do it in Super Rugby when the Sunwolves were around and it wasn't that much of an issue.
LashHOST
We'd get over on Wednesday, I think, play on Saturday, not too bad.
LashHOST
What do you think the appetite would be to, say, have, you know, their four or five best teams enter in a Super Rugby competition to make it a 16-team competition, a 15-team competition with Australia and New Zealand? And would they be competitive?
Brad WeberGUEST
Yeah.
Brad WeberGUEST
We used to do it in Super Rugby when the Sunwolves were around-
LashHOST
Yeah
Brad WeberGUEST
... and it wasn't, wasn't that much of an issue.
Tony JohnsonHOST
Keep Super Rugby, keep NPC, bring in the United States, two teams for them to start, do three or four Super Rounds, two Super Weekends in the States, back-to-back, one in New Zealand, one in Australia, if interest in the game is key, the States the key to that, bring in huge revenue, it's a possibility.
Tony JohnsonHOST
I still think that Japan, I just wish they'd been able to find a better way than the Sunwolves to get Japan connected up with New Zealand Rugby.
Riccardo BallHOST
That was the problem with the thinking around that.
Riccardo BallHOST
And if you want to do anything with rugby in Japan, you don't go and talk to Japanese rugby.
Riccardo BallHOST
You go and talk to Toshiba and Mitsubishi, and you'd go and talk to all of those companies that run the big clubs in Japan Rugby 1.
Tony JohnsonHOST
Yeah, and they didn't necessarily want the Sunwolves, a lot of them, because they've got their own entity there and it works really, really well.
Tony JohnsonHOST
You have to have NPC.
Tony JohnsonHOST
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