Sick of reading comments from South Africans on URC related content who make it to be a country vs country competition. I think it's a bad habit that was picked up in Super Rugby from New Zealand.

I remember in the old days, SA derbies used to be fierce especially among the fans. The Bulls vs Stormers was the epitome of this. There used to be genuine hatred of the other to the point that fans of each respective team used to support any team playing against the other regardless of whether they were an SA team or not.

Nowadays South Africans are supporting their own SA team and all other SA teams. I get national pride and all that but the URC is a club competition. Save national pride for the Springboks. URC is meant to be your club vs everyone else.

I certainly don't blame South Africans for this because it was NZ fans that made Super Rugby to be a country vs country thing especially in the later years, and from there SA fans just started supporting all SA teams. Well you can guess why that competition is declining? Tribalism is important at the end of the day!

It's why as a SA fan, the Irish derbies are some of my favourite URC matchups. There is a real niggle between the respective fan bases and a genuine hatred of Leinster.

Let's not ruin this by bringing bad habits from Super Rugby and subsequently poisoning the well causing all the other countries fans in the URC to adopt the same bad habit.

The tribalism that already exists elsewhere in the URC is awesome and SA fans need to follow.