Not so sure about that. You need a particular mindset to go out with the intent to play that type of rugby and you also need total support from coaches, players, administrators, sponsors and supporters. It may or may not be enjoyable for certain coaches, but most players and supporters play or support rugby for different reasons. With the Waratah example - most of the players seemed not to be enjoying playing that style and the fans hated it.. Loss of fans = loss of money and makes the club/franchise less attractive to sponsors. This was the only thing which finally stung the NSWRU into action as it was affecting the bottom line.
It's certainly possible to go into a season with win ugly as a tactic because of your playing roster and to be successful, but I don't believe it's sustainable long term outside of the UK. Certainly not in Australia or NZ or France or the Pacific Islands.
Maybe this is true, but I don't see much evidence of it. SA is generally dry during the Super comp, the high veldt is certainly so, though Durban and Cape Town are wetter. But certainly not UK winter wetter.
But except for the Cheetahs, the South Africans all play some version of Jakeball. Their backs just never seem to learn how to put together ensemble play, but they sure do learn how to chase a kick. And they all seem to enjoy it. If you are right the Saffers should all be joyless players perpetually losing and their supporters leaving in droves. Au contraire, they are the best supported teams in the comp.
There is much more to it than this generalisation, but I suspect that it is true in the Australian context. Because of the competition from mungo, Australians are convinced that the rugby they want to watch sees players running hard and scoring lots of good tries. Stifling a game where penalty kicks decide the outcome is just not in our DNA. So we will not watch it long term if this is how the Super teams try to play.
At their best the Reds, Waratahs and Brumbies don't play that way. At their worst they do. The Force and Rebels are playing that way right now because their coaches are using it to make up for skill deficiencies in their squads (and perhaps to make up for their coaching deficiencies). But that is a short term solution that the Melbourne crowds especially have not embraced. All Australian sides need to realise that to be successful in a total, long term sense (crowds, fans, TV audiences as well as table position) they need to adopt a more attacking style of play. An Australian style just as distinctive as the South African style.
