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Veteran Argentine rugby scribe Frankie Deges wonders just how the Jaguares can be included in Super Rugby next year

Veteran Argentine rugby scribe Frankie Deges wonders just how the Jaguares can be included in Super Rugby next year

10 May 2020

The South American team must travel further and more often than any other team in the competition which SANZAAR insists will be 14 teams in 2021.

But Deges who is into his 55th day of lockdown in Buenos Aires, sees no possibility of rugby resuming any time soon in Argentina.

He questions how you can have a scrum, a ruck or a maul with the players touching each other.

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