Guinness Premiership Bath boss Steve Meehan believes that it is "quite possible" that northern hemisphere players could be tempted to play in the Super 14 for Australian teams.
The ARU has in principle agreed to a new rule that would allow two foreign players in each of the four Australian Super 14 franchises - Western Force, Reds, Brumbies and the Waratahs.
If the ruling goes through formally foreign players could be playing in the Super 14 as soon as 2009.
The theory behind the idea is that this would make the Super 14 more exciting and would go some way to stemming the current flow of Southern Hemisphere players to the Northern Hemisphere.
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