The rivals for Victorian rugby's Super 15 bid are presenting their cases to the Australian Rugby Union board today.
A reduced eight-man ARU board will hear 40-minute presentations in Sydney from both major syndicates, Victorian Rugby Union and the VicSuper15 syndicates.
The ARU's declined to shed any further light on the final stage of a process which has been heavily criticised by the VRU and Melbourne club officials for a lack of accountability.
It's unclear whether a decision will be handed down immediately but with Australia's official nominee to be finalised by September 25 it's expected to be imminent.
The successful Victorian bid team then go head-to-head with South Africa's Southern Kings, from the heavily-populated Eastern Cape region, for the new 15th licence, playing out of the five-team Australian conference in the expanded 2011 competition with SANZAR making a decision at the end of October.
