Following the demise of Super Rugby franchise, focus now turns to the bigger picture and the ailing Wallabies
In 1972, 16 members of a Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the freezing Andes Mountains and were forced to eat their teammates to survive 72 days. One of them, 19-year-old medical student Robert Canessa, later said that he owed his life to a successful “metamorphosis from being a rugby player to becoming a survivor”.
For Melbourne Rebels players, the journey to safety isn’t life and death. Yet their survival, and the wider prosperity of Australian rugby, depends on their being swallowed up by Australia’s other Super Rugby teams for the greater good.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/article/2024/jun/10/melbourne-rebels-super-rugby-collapse-roster-redistribution
Author : Angus Fontaine
Publish date : 2024-06-10 02:22:55
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