Rugby schedule has little to do with player welfare

PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

A roll of drums and a fanfare of trumpets late last summer heralded a new title sponsor for a tournament acclaimed by the mightiest of Springboks as ‘the best club rugby competition in the world’.
Picking up where Eben Etzebeth left off last season, Investec, naturally enough, extolled the virtues of an event deemed worthy of their title sponsorship. It would ‘celebrate exceptional talent while creating transformational value for spectators, players and communities’.
The Anglo-South African banking and wealth management group also acknowledged the t...

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