Rugby’s top brass plan talks
NZPA staff correspondent CHRIS PETERS Sydney Rugby’s top brass from both sides of the Tasman meet today to thrash out some big decisions for the first rugby World Cup, to be staged in 1987. Overshadowing their deliberations will be the spectre of South Africa, which has been shut out from the cup by its rugby brothers after being instrumental in forcing the International Rugby Board to accept the idea.
Now the South Africans are preparing a rival, and possibly professional, tournament instead, in a move that could end once and for all any pretensions of amateurism the game still has.
The importance of the World Cup Committee’s meeting today is evidenced by the fact that the New Zealand chairman Ces Blazey, is joining the other four New Zealand cup committee men for the meeting. The meeting, the third of the series, is the first since the All Black tour of South Africa was called off, and while officials say the question of the republic’s participation has been well and truly settled, the question of what the South Africans do in retaliation will be high on the agenda.
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