JP Ferreira: South African teams playing in PRO14 will be a TV hit back home

Munster defence coach JP Ferreira: PRO14 plan is well received in South Africa. Picture: INPHO/James Crombie

The planned injection of four South African franchises into the Guinness PRO14 has been received as a massive shot in the arm to a tournament that has struggled on and off the park and lived for the most part in the shadows of its English and French counterparts.

What hasn’t been explored quite so much, at this end, are the benefits to those sides and to South African rugby in general as they loosen their ties with Super Rugby and fix their sights northwards instead. JP Ferreira seemed like an obvious man to quiz on that.