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More from Rupert well Wayne Smith
"This is the first time in its 10-year history as a Super Rugby club that the Force have needed to call on assistance from the ARU. Until now, they have lived off the cashflow built up over the first three or four years of their existence but a series of setbacks means that money is now exhausted.
Still, the ARU has bailed out the Waratahs twice, the Queensland Reds once, is now attempting to manage a crisis at the Brumbies and has spent a fortune keeping the Melbourne Rebels afloat.
Given those circumstances, the Force will be fighting with everything they can raise to ensure that the price of their survival is not relocation to western Sydney."