Rugby will be a winter sport forever

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A few years ago I would have been hostile to even contemplate a switch to summer to align with the northern hemisphere. Now I am merely neutral, not to mention curious.

Are we at the stage yet when ideas for significant structural change for rugby are put on the table without prejudice?, Rugby Australia operating with an $80 million credit facility on an 10-per-cent-plus interest rate, the Wallabies dropping to No.

His proposition, in short, was this: get rugby out of the NRL’s massive shadow, align the calendar with the northern hemisphere , and find a window where rugby isn’t being beaten up each week by league and the AFL. But, let’s go back to the motivation for this kind of thinking: the dire straits that rugby finds itself in, and theAnd not once since professionalism has ‘the international game will save us’ argument looked less convincing, with Wales in obvious financial distress and World Rugby almost institutionally incapable of making the sort of game changes that would suit Australian tastes.

I am now merely neutral to the summer shift, or at least curious enough to know what some commercial modelling would show.

 

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