Poll: Are the changes to the Crusaders an overreaction?

  • 04/04/2019
Poll: Are the changes to the Crusaders an overreaction?

The Crusaders Super Rugby brand seems set to change, after last month's tragic Christchurch mosque shootings.

NZ Rugby and the Crusaders franchise have engaged outside consultants to oversee the changes, with NZR chief executive Steve Tew describing the imagery as "no longer tenable".

After a lone gunman killed 50 victims at two mosques in the Crusaders' home city, pressure has mounted to drop a name that may have seemed like a good idea when the competition began in 1996, but now appeared inappropriate.

Are the changes to the Crusaders an overreaction?

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