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[taniwharugby]

@sparky same talk of SA joining or just a bunch of nobodies saying they should let them in?

Will they kick Italy?

Georgia should be next cab off the rank.

Or they going to expand it right up to 7 or 8?

[Machpants]

Happy with Japan in RC, just not SW in SR. But you'd have to have less games, not one each home/away, if Japan joined with more rest weeks with the travel in the RC. Have to be alternating home/away like 6N - not a problem, and one extra Bledisloe

[booboo]

@sparky said in Rankings:

@Machpants

It's called investment. Japan has 127 million people, is the world's third largest economy and has sheds lots of new Rugby fans. The country is going to bring a lot of revenue to Rugby.

Some talk of European Rugby offering Japan a spot in the Six Nations if SANZAAR turns up its nose.

Georgia? Romania?

[jegga]

@sparky said in Rankings:

@Machpants

It's called investment. Japan has 127 million people, is the world's third largest economy and has sheds lots of new Rugby fans. The country is going to bring a lot of revenue to Rugby.

Some talk of European Rugby offering Japan a spot in the Six Nations if SANZAAR turns up its nose.

Who’s talking about offering them a spot in the 6 n?

[taniwharugby]

@Machpants having a Japanese side in super rugby is fine, so long as it is backed by Rugby Japan and it gets thier top players rather than the SW who were basically the red-headed step-child.

I think invite Japan and Fiji and then go home/away on alternate years, same format as 6N.

[Machpants]

@taniwharugby Yeah happy with that too, but JRU are at fault, the way they didn;t do anything for SW, not SANZAAR

[sparky]

@jegga This Ugo Moyne piece has created discussions. Nothing formal yet but don't write it off entirely.

Oct 15, 2019  /  Sport

It is time to build on Japan’s success and start the Seven Nations | Ugo Monye

World Rugby is desperate to expand the sport and inviting the World Cup hosts into a long-established European competition would help do just that

[jegga]

@sparky said in Rankings:

@jegga This Ugo Moyne piece has created discussions. Nothing formal yet but don't write it off entirely.

Oct 15, 2019  /  Sport

It is time to build on Japan’s success and start the Seven Nations | Ugo Monye

World Rugby is desperate to expand the sport and inviting the World Cup hosts into a long-established European competition would help do just that

So an opinion piece in the Guardian? No one in 6n management?

[Machpants]

@jegga by an ex England player too

[sparky]

@jegga Like I said nothing formal yet. But what Ugo is writing for the Guardian, his RFU friends are thinking about.

[jegga]

@sparky said in Rankings:

@jegga Like I said nothing formal yet. But what Ugo is writing for the Guardian, his RFU friends are thinking about.

I doubt that . They’d take South Africa before Japan

[sparky]

@jegga said in Rankings:

@sparky said in Rankings:

@jegga Like I said nothing formal yet. But what Ugo is writing for the Guardian, his RFU friends are thinking about.

I doubt that . They’d take South Africa before Japan

UK government are very keen on closer links to Japan at the moment. Part of their Global Britain, post-EU strategy.

Not saying it is definitely going to happen. But if SANZAAR make life hard for Japan, they will take their yen and millions of new Rugby fans elsewhere.

[jegga]

@sparky said in Rankings:

@jegga said in Rankings:

@sparky said in Rankings:

@jegga Like I said nothing formal yet. But what Ugo is writing for the Guardian, his RFU friends are thinking about.

I doubt that . They’d take South Africa before Japan

UK government are very keen on closer links to Japan at the moment. Part of their Global Britain, post-EU strategy.

Not saying it is going to happen. But if SANZAAR make life hard for Japan, they will take their yen and millions of new Rugby fans elsewhere.

Never going to happen.

[hydro11]

Japan still have to do it consistently and away from home to be regarded as a major force in rugby.

[Chester Draws]

Japan are in the wrong time zone for the 6 Nations.

Games playing in the middle of the night don't attract viewers.

[Bones]

@sparky well consider it done then eh! UK government are nothing if not efficient.

[Machpants]

First time for a while that the ranking look pretty accurate, probably a slight adjustment after Wales lose to Boks and it'll be correct!

[Duluth]

1. England - 92.29
2. South Africa - 90.71
3. New Zealand - 89.92
4. Wales - 87.21
5. Ireland - 84.45
6. Australia - 81.90
7. France - 80.88
8. Japan - 79.28
9. Scotland - 79.23
10. Argentina - 78.31

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/article.cfm?c_id=80&objectid=12280269

[sparky]

@Duluth Australia should be above Ireland. Nothing between NZ and SA. Hard to argue about the rest.

[booboo]

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