SYDNEY: The southern hemisphere rugby powers on Thursday expressed their disappointment at the loss of the"golden opportunity" offered by the Nations Championship, the potentially transformative test competition which World Rugby abandoned on Wednesday.
"The Nations Championship was a golden opportunity to grow the game internationally but is seemingly lost," SANZAAR chairman Brent Impey said in a statement. "Creating a new international competition was always going to be a challenging conversation for world rugby nations," said New Zealand Rugby chief executive Steve Tew.
In the southern hemisphere, the most likely beneficiaries would have been the Pacific island nations of Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.
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