Sport | Champs Cup or URC derbies? SA public preference check looms

Rob Houwing

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Canan Moodie (Gallo)

It has long been enthusiastically touted as the jewel-in-crown justification for South Africa’s franchise migration from Super Rugby to northern climes.

Never mind the humungous step in its own right of quitting the long-time, once hugely popular Sanzaar competition after 2020 and installing our premier four domestic teams in the former Pro14 to spawn the United Rugby Championship: that was seen as a stepping stone to even bigger things.

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