Scottish Rugby is to scrap its Super 6 club series and reinstated a national “A-team” as part of a comprehensive restructure of the professional game.
United Rugby Championship clubs Edinburgh and Glasgow Wariors will also add second-string A fixtures and develop academy structures.
The Super 6 has been a halfway house between the national league and the two professional sides.
But the six clubs involved will not have their licences renewed.
The competition involving Ayrshire Bulls, Boroughmuir Bears, Heriot’s Rugby, Southern Knights, Stirling Wolves and Watsonians will end in November and the clubs will meantime take part in consultation with the SRU’s club rugby board on a transition towards a new structure for the domestic club game.
Those talks will also involve the current 10 clubs in the Scottish Premiership, with the SRU promising to be “as fair to as many clubs as possible”, cause the “least disruption” to the 10-team national league structures and regional leagues and ensure no club will be “seriously inconvenienced”.
More to follow.
