New Zealand Super Rugby coaches want Pacific Island team brought in from 2016

[beige]

New Zealand's Super Rugby coaches are pushing for a team of Pacific island players to be included in the southern hemisphere competition when it expands in 2016, a report said Wednesday.

The team, based in Auckland, would be part of an 18-club competition under a proposal from the head coaches of New Zealand's five existing Super Rugby teams, the New Zealand Herald reported.

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[jargan83]

But the All Blacks can keep picking them right?

[beige]

The article is a bit vague on that isn't it...

Although they'd be opening themselves up to racism allegations if the idea is for the players to be eligible for NZ...

[The InnFORCEr]

The Auckland Blues already are a PI team aren't they, or is that the Cheifs....or the Hurricanes

[Happy]

i thought the same idea once, until a local kiwi told me it would never happen "Happy, they hate each other!"