IRB breakthrough to save international test game

[Boggle]

And a World Club Competiton would be 100% pure kaka IMO. If you want it so much just let the Best Team in the South play the Best Club in the North once a year.
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Where's the spectacle in that ?

I'm gonna try and find that bloody magazine again and post the whole "blueprint" in this thread.
I can just imagine seeing a game between Biaritz and the Crusaders, or the Sharks against Munster (*or ulster whichever was in the HC fnal with biaritz last year*)

It WILL be AWESOME.

we'd finally have the equivalent of the EUFA Chamions leage for Rugby.

*dies of excitement...again*

 

[Prestwick]

Munster.

 

[shtove]

Hey, we might be getting Luke McAlister next year. And we've got Carney on the wing. Finally finally something might happen out the backs.

Anyway, the Irish have brought the bean counters in to save world rugby:

Calendar a priority for new forum.

Following fast on the rapprochement exhibited by the stakeholders in European rugby, the first ever forum involving all of the stakeholders in the world game is due to meet this year to discuss the international calendar. No date or venue has yet been set for the meeting.
Following a 15-month analysis of the international game by financial services company Deloitte, the International Rugby Board (IRB), announced yesterday that this forum will take place in order to discuss and to possibly rearrange the current calendar. That could mean that the traditional windows for international matches involving the Irish team in the autumn series and in June could be changed.
"That's definitely something that will be covered," said an IRB official. "This is the first forum so it is ground breaking and player's representatives, unions, committee representatives etc will all be involved. It is probably the biggest move ever towards an integrated season."
The statement claims that the forum will seek to establish a season "that will meet the requirements of all the game's stakeholders". The statement continued: "Over the last 15 months the IRB has engaged financial services company Deloitte to deliver analysis on the structure, health and economics of the game worldwide. The information from these reports will be used by the forum along with further details . . . to ensure robust debate on the way forward.
"Proposed options that have evolved . . . involve realignments to the matches currently played as part of the existing June and November international windows. The forum will allow the IRB to discuss with the game's stakeholders these options plus any others raised by the attendees. The forum will be facilitated by an independent third party. The venue, attendees, facilitator and format of the forum will be announced in the near future."
© 2007, The Irish Times.

 

[Ripper]

Hey, we might be getting Luke McAlister next year. And we've got Carney on the wing. Finally finally something might happen out the backs.[/b]

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Oh that is gold - Toulouse are offering way more than Munster ever could, and the NZRFU have now made Luke their top goal to resign him, and with Mauger gone the only reason McAlister was looking to go overseas in the first place is now gone.

 

[shtove]

Toulouse is a great place, but Munster could swing it. Anything to get out of the NZ shithole.

 

[Wellycane]

Two days later I find this...and I really like the idea.

 

[Ripper]

Toulouse is a great place, but Munster could swing it. Anything to get out of the NZ shithole.
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And how would Munster swing it - The only reason he goes overseas is for money - and with the NZRFU making him the top target, and with the lure of the AB starting spot it, he will not turn that or an extra 100,000 thousand pounds from Toulouse to play in Munster.

Apparently Munster need to reopen talks thats how far behind the 8 Ball they are.