The troubling sight of empty grandstands has been matched by plummeting TV ratings and ugly play on the field for a code in crisis.
After a forgettable 2019 Rugby World Cup campaign, a cluster of rugby stars — including former Wallabies Quade Cooper, Will Genia and Bernard Foley — abandoned the Super Rugby tournament for lucrative contracts in Japan.
A trip over the Tasman has been a death sentence since 2015, with our teams going a combined 1-45 from their past 46 trips. Twenty-eight of the defeats were by 13 points or more. No side in the competition has conceded more points after three rounds than the inexperienced Waratahs .
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