Nations Championship?

E African Troll

WHY

This was a clear money grab to create a closed shop for Tier 1 nations

I'm delighted it's collapsed

Reform is needed not naked greed and short sightness

Billy Tell

@Jaguares4real said in World League Rugby / Nations Championship:

@Kirwan

WHY

This was a clear money grab to create a closed shop for Tier 1 nations

I'm delighted it's collapsed

Reform is needed not naked greed and short sightness

Good luck with your reform crusade. Let us know how negotiations turn out with French & UK clubs.

rotated

@Jaguares4real said in World League Rugby / Nations Championship:

This was a clear money grab to create a closed shop for Tier 1 nations

I'm delighted it's collapsed

If it is a money grab surely the money is being grabbed from those outside the closed shop. How many Tongan paʻanga and Uruguayan peso do you think they were planning to make away with? Must be a decent amount for all this effort?

Derm McCrum

@Jaguares4real said in World League Rugby / Nations Championship:

@Kirwan

WHY

This was a clear money grab to create a closed shop for Tier 1 nations

I'm delighted it's collapsed

Reform is needed not naked greed and short sightness

The only thing that’s not clear is who opposed it and why?

Apparently, it suited the Sanzaar unions and FFR supported it. In a recent interview with English RFU CEO, they were broadly in support of it too. So that leaves the four smaller PRO14 unions or some of them opposed.

mofitzy_

Tier 2 nations would be getting more money and the chance (eventually) to become tier 1.

Don't see how this benefits anyone except the European clubs and I suppose any country that is scared of being included in a competition on merit.

E African Troll

@Billy-Tell said in World League Rugby / Nations Championship:

usade. Let us know how negotiatio

You don't negotiate

You just ENFORCE Regulation 9 re. player release

So forcing the Frogs especially to stop poaching PI players & making them French or bribing them to not play in RWC's

Time for taking is over Time to start rattling some cages

Can't compete financially

Compete for access and you'll win

Reg 9 simples

mofitzy_

@Jaguares4real
Except you can't force individual players against their own financial benefit, which is why this could have been a step in the right direction.

taniwharugby

current system isnt great, but that proposal wasnt either.

Need to start with a global season before they try to fix other parts.

gt12

@taniwharugby

Also, not touching the 6 nations seems to be crucial.

Derm McCrum

@mofitzy_ said in World League Rugby / Nations Championship:

Tier 2 nations would be getting more money and the chance (eventually) to become tier 1.

Don't see how this benefits anyone except the European clubs and I suppose any country that is scared of being included in competition on merit.

There are 66 European professional clubs. How does it benefit the likes of Connacht, Zebre, Ealing Trailfinders, Dragons, Biarritz, amongst a lot of others?

mofitzy_

@Derm-McCrum
Less international games and cheaper foreign players for a start.

Derm McCrum

@mofitzy_ said in World League Rugby / Nations Championship:

@Derm-McCrum
Less international games and cheaper foreign players for a start.

Makes no difference to them.

mofitzy_

@Derm-McCrum
If they have international players on their books then it does.

Derm McCrum

@mofitzy_ said in World League Rugby / Nations Championship:

@Derm-McCrum
If they have international players on their books then it does.

The European clubs supplying test players that would be involved in playing additional games beyond the normal 3-test Nov games would be pretty small out of 66 clubs.

mofitzy_

@Derm-McCrum
Cheaper foreign players too.

Derm McCrum

@mofitzy_ said in World League Rugby / Nations Championship:

@Derm-McCrum
Cheaper foreign players too.

There’s no ‘too’. Since we’ve just established that it would not benefit the vast majority of European clubs, particularly those in the PRO14, Championship and PROD2.

Cheaper foreign players - how and why?

antipodean

@Jaguares4real said in World League Rugby / Nations Championship:

You just ENFORCE Regulation 9 re. player release

How when players accept contracts that benefit them for not playing OS?

Even then, it doesn't address the aspect that clubs can play those squad members into the ground. Agreements to have Test players miss games and restrict minutes, attend squad days etc. wouldn't exist.

booboo

@Derm-McCrum said in World League Rugby / Nations Championship:

@Machpants said in World League Rugby / Nations Championship:

Yup and NZ getting no money for our games in the NH.

No money?
NZRU gets money from tests in US and in any of the out of window tests.

Exactly

mofitzy_

@Derm-McCrum
Shouldn't need to explain this but here we go: this would have been a massive cash injection into national unions which means more money could be spent holding on to players which obviously makes them harder to buy.

Derm McCrum

@mofitzy_ said in World League Rugby / Nations Championship:

@Derm-McCrum
Shouldn't need to explain this but here we go: this would have been a massive cash injection into national unions which means more money could be spent holding on to players which obviously makes them harder to buy.

That’s true in any scenario where there’s a substantial uplift in income. Meaning player costs would inflate even further across the board as agents seek a slice of the pie for their clients.

With the WR proposal off the table, the proposed alternative investment in 6N by CVC or another sports rights agency will also do this and player costs will rise and foreign players will cost more too. And again I’d argue that this is mainly an issue for some of the clubs, not all 66 of them.

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