Currie Cup still 6 team battle

A proposal to expand the Currie Cup premier division from six to eight teams in 2014 was rejected by a Special General Council meeting of the South African Rugby Union provinces in Johannesburg, the union said by statement yesterday.

A second proposal, dependent on the success of the first, to entrench the Lions in Super Rugby for the next two years also fell away.

It was agreed the status quo would remain and the team that finishes top of the Currie Cup first division log in 2013 would play the last-placed team in the premier division for the chance of promotion to the 2014 premier division.

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- Sapa