Opinion Try (new) nations: My radical plan to fix southern hemisphere rugby
, but if we are honest the southern hemisphere series hasn’t exactly grabbed us for years.
The Rugby Championship has a number of issues, including the impossibility of the ‘away day’ supporters that make the Six Nations so special. It’s easier to get from London to Dublin than it is from Sydney to Mendoza. When teams play each other twice, it is difficult for those fixtures to have any relevance to the championship table. There is no tension, and the tournament winners are invariably crowned without much fanfare.The four team, double-fixture format isn’t working, but a six-team, single-fixture might. And here is where we come to the difficult area of expansion - and specifically Japan and Fiji.
While there has been a lot of talk about the Rugby Australia broadcast deal with Nine/Stan being worth $33 million a year and the NZ Rugby’s deal with Sky being valued at $89m a year - it’s a simplification to then ask why those amounts simply aren’t pooled and split between the pair., explaining them as thus: each part of a union’s TV broadcast offering is given a value, and that number is ultimately set by the broadcaster.
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