Opinion
The souped-up Super 15 rugby competition will start in late February with a break in June before the August finals followed by the Tri-Nations test series.
The outline for the next five-year deal, to be presented to the rights-holding News Corporation next month, proposes the regular Super series to begin in late February with five teams in each conference in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.
Sides will play each other home and away in their own conference, before they play four of the five sides in the other two sections.
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