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<blockquote data-quote="Mr. Laxative" data-source="post: 153362"><p>I certainly believe that a tournament would be useful, however options need to be looked at.</p><p></p><p>One idea could be to hold a "Champion's Trophy" in a spring tour window including all 6 Nations and Tri Nations sides, plus Argentina. Each team would play the other once over a 10 week period - with the option for a final. Every four years the tournament could alternate between hemispheres. It could be possible to include all the PI teams and then split the table into two groups in order to shorten the running period.</p><p></p><p>For example pools would be as follows:</p><p></p><p>Pool 1: Pool 2:</p><p>Australia New Zealand</p><p>Fiji England</p><p>France Samoa</p><p>Ireland Scotland</p><p>Argentina Italy</p><p>Tonga South Africa</p><p>Wales </p><p></p><p>One pool would have to include one more team than the other unless a team such as Romania were introduced. </p><p></p><p>Alternatively a tournament which could create a lot of interest would be matches between invitational teams. For example there could be a Six Nations (or European team), a Tri-Nations team (perhaps including Africans from Namibia, Zimbabwe, etc.), a PI team (with the inclusion of players from Niue, Vanuatu, Cook Islands if players are found to be of high enough standard) and an Americas team. The tournament would alternate between hemispheres every four years with each team playing the other three times.</p><p></p><p>What do you think?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mr. Laxative, post: 153362"] I certainly believe that a tournament would be useful, however options need to be looked at. One idea could be to hold a "Champion's Trophy" in a spring tour window including all 6 Nations and Tri Nations sides, plus Argentina. Each team would play the other once over a 10 week period - with the option for a final. Every four years the tournament could alternate between hemispheres. It could be possible to include all the PI teams and then split the table into two groups in order to shorten the running period. For example pools would be as follows: Pool 1: Pool 2: Australia New Zealand Fiji England France Samoa Ireland Scotland Argentina Italy Tonga South Africa Wales One pool would have to include one more team than the other unless a team such as Romania were introduced. Alternatively a tournament which could create a lot of interest would be matches between invitational teams. For example there could be a Six Nations (or European team), a Tri-Nations team (perhaps including Africans from Namibia, Zimbabwe, etc.), a PI team (with the inclusion of players from Niue, Vanuatu, Cook Islands if players are found to be of high enough standard) and an Americas team. The tournament would alternate between hemispheres every four years with each team playing the other three times. What do you think? [/QUOTE]
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