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It has been a long time coming, and it will be a long time until its benefits are felt, but rugby’s administrators seem to have finally found a way to untie the Gordian Knot that has seen the game forever hopelessly biased towards its traditional powers.

WR chairman Sir Bill Beaumont told journalists how he remembered administrators wrestling with the dreaded “calendar” after the 2007 World Cup in France, and failing hopelessly to make any progress. The same applies to all the big nations, who routinely play each other home and away in June and November with only the token occasional diversion against a Tier Two nation.

Throw into the mix the contrasting desires of leading leagues in England and France, the British & Irish Lions and the ever-growing concerns over player welfare and its influence on the prevalence of matches, and it is no surprise that attempts to bring everyone together have consistently failed. Crucially there will also be a second division of 12 teams, giving those Tier Two nations regular matches between themselves.

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