Rather than a 7th Nation, I would rather a Lower League system was introduced, so the smaller clubs like Spain, Portugal, Germany etc played in there and maybe the winner of the Wooden spoon in the Six Nations got demoted to that league the next season, with the winner of the other moving to the Proper 6 Nations??
Just a possibility
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that could work, but to be honest no team in a lower division would be worthy of replacing wales, england, france, ireland, scotland, or italy.
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What is the freakin' obsession with the relegation structure? It makes no sense, especially in a competition like the 6 Nations.
Let's be honest a tier two 6 Nations tourney would take 20+ years to catch up to the level that the actual 6 nations are at now...those countries just don't have the national interest. Will tournaments like a Tier Two 6 Nations help? Yes, but it still takes a long time to gain exposure and then begin to develop talent.
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I thought they were joining the Tri-Nations?there was talk of argentina joining the six nations. they could be based in spain/portugal (fledgeling but growing markets) as the nearly all their top players are europe based.
as they have consistently proved themselves in recent years it is a crime they have not been included in a major tournament. sanzar seem to have no interest in them competeing in the tri (or four) nations, so europe is really the only option.
it would be very sad if they were aloud to weaken as an international side. if anything the irb should be making a special effort to help out teams like the argentines and samoa who have been a threat to the larger nations in recent years.
ideally id like to see the argentines and the pacific islanders added to the tri nations. okay so they might well get a few floggings but i think it would add interest to the comp which is getting a little stale in my view. who knows the way the argies are playing this year they might even have given the aussies a fright!
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there was talk of argentina joining the six nations. they could be based in spain/portugal (fledgeling but growing markets) as the nearly all their top players are europe based.
as they have consistently proved themselves in recent years it is a crime they have not been included in a major tournament. sanzar seem to have no interest in them competeing in the tri (or four) nations, so europe is really the only option.
it would be very sad if they were aloud to weaken as an international side. if anything the irb should be making a special effort to help out teams like the argentines and samoa who have been a threat to the larger nations in recent years.
ideally id like to see the argentines and the pacific islanders added to the tri nations. okay so they might well get a few floggings but i think it would add interest to the comp which is getting a little stale in my view. who knows the way the argies are playing this year they might even have given the aussies a fright!
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I just don't think that will be productive...imagine if Wales or someone besides Italy finishes bottom in the 6N? I don't see how it would be productive for Welsh Rugby?
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I just don't think that will be productive...imagine if Wales or someone besides Italy finishes bottom in the 6N? I don't see how it would be productive for Welsh Rugby?
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