Many factors will decide which teams get left out of the competition in future, sport executives say.
The decision regarding which South African Super Rugby teams will lose their place in future competition is not as final as has been reported.
In London a few weeks ago, PwC presented its recommendations to Super Rugby governing body Sanzaar, which encompasses South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and Argentina. Since then, speculation has been rife that three teams – two of them South African and one of them Australian – would fall out of the Super Rugby competition from next year in an attempt to blow new life into the dying rugby brand.