THERE IS a good chance you’ve never watched a single game played in the ‘best league in the land’.
That is the slogan used by BUCS Super Rugby, the highest level of the men’s university game in the UK.
And while you can debate the veracity of that claim, one thing you can’t dispute is the transformational impact that BSR has had since it was created in 2016.
“There’s been a seismic shift in what has happened with university rugby,” explains Danny Milton, Cardiff Met’s head of men’s performance. “There was quite often lots of blowout victories, the resources across the universities were very different. So the quality of games wasn’t what it is now. The platform it has given the uni game has been huge.”
Creating a national top-tier university league, instead of the usual north-south split, was vital to driving up the standard and ensuring the best of the best could regularly play against each other.
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