";s:4:"text";s:3319:" The lucrative European television market, and more favourable time zones and travel logistics, are behind the move, with the Cheetahs and Southern Kings having played in the PRO14 since 2017. You have come to the ESPN Africa edition, for other ESPN editions, click above. Andy Marinos, chief executive of SANZAAR, the organisers of Super Rugby and the Rugby Championship, denies the provincial championship "will never look the same again" if more South African teams join the PRO14. Rugby Australia has pulled off a major coup in what has been a disastrous year for the code, securing the entire Rugby Championship which will be played across November and December this year. But the Rebels have shown they too can be a quality team, one with plenty of big-game experience. The Cheetahs and Kings will be replaced by the new quartet, with the former possibly playing in a revamped SANZAAR Super Series, the details of which have yet to be announced, if costs can be kept neutral. SANZAAR has dismissed reports that South Africa are to join an eight-team competition in Europe later this year while chief executive Andy Marinos has also finally conceded Super Rugby's decline. You have come to the ESPN Africa edition, for other ESPN editions, click above.