D-day looms

Australia’s long-running Super Rugby team axing saga is set to be thrashed out behind closed doors at an extraordinary general meeting of the Australian Rugby Union on June 20. The ARU has locked in the date for the meeting, which will be held in Sydney three days after the Wallabies’ test against Scotland at Allianz Stadium, and four days before they face Italy in Brisbane. The meeting was called by the Victorian Rugby Union and the Rugby Union Players’ Association, both seeking answers on how the ARU intends to proceed with its declared intent to cut one of the five Australian franchises from Super Rugby.