​The atmosphere over the past few weeks has been unbelievable. Looking at sold-out crowds packed into world-class venues like Ellis Park, Cape Town Stadium, and FNB Stadium it’s impossible to ignore the reality: rugby culture hits differently here.

​World Rugby made a massive mistake passing on 2023 and 2027. Watching the All Blacks and Boks tear into each other on South African soil in front of electric crowds just showed the world what a global tournament here would feel like.

​Bring the World Cup back home. We are more than ready.

Let me preface by saying I fucking love Deon the bicentennial man Fourie. He’s been overlooked throughout his career and always steps up in the big moments. That said, does Rassie have every intention of having him on the plane to Aus in 2027? I’ll say he’s performed better than JHw did in the first test. But I’m also confused why Grobbies has gotten left out entirely. Deon plays a different role because he can cover both open side and hooker, but if you have Andre and Hanekom on the bench then that is more than enough coverage. I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve to be in the team atm but I’m just questioning are we truly getting depth when the other guys aren’t getting time in these high pressure games.

Saru should expand the currie cup to a 14 team round robin tournament and add quarter finals. 13 games and 3 knock out rounds. The 4 URC teams would obviously still play with mostly u23 squad players but have them bring in their urc teams for the quarters, semis and finals. So the league phase would be a development tournament (for the urc teams) and then the knockout can have a more premier feel to it. It would allow the smaller unions to play against URC players in the knockouts and it would give the URC unions a chance to win it giving the competition some sort of credibility.

So the urc teams only need to play 3 rounds if they make the final and if their development squad can ensure a top 8 finish. And the development team would play 13 games.(the development teams played 13 games this season with 7 currie cup and 6 u23 cup matches)

It would also give smaller unions more exposure and income to stay professional and develop more players