I understand why people in many parts of Britain and Ireland didn't bother with club rugby in the pre-professional era. What I was pointing out was the failure of the powers-that-be in Europe in the professional era to come up with a "club" product that had anything like the appeal of the Six Nations, whereas their SANZAR counterparts had done that very successfully with the Super 14 and even managed to retain a fair bit of interest in the NPC and the Currie Cup.
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