Cape Town – There are increasing signs, even if things may yet take a turn for the better, that Super Rugby 2015 will have another of its “legitimacy tests” at the end of ordinary season.
The overall table has looked more than a little eccentric to casual observers for much of the campaign thus far, given the cast-in-stone requirement that each of the three conference leaders automatically occupy the top three berths ... despite a marked dominance of the competition, generally speaking, by the New Zealand sides.
So as things currently stand, the team with the second most log points, the Chiefs, is unjustly restricted to fourth despite being four points better than the second-placed Stormers and five better than the third-placed Brumbies – and that with a game in hand over both!