{"id":295049,"date":"2023-10-24T13:08:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T13:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=295049"},"modified":"2023-10-24T13:08:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T13:08:56","slug":"rugby-world-cup-worry-as-new-event-dubbed-the-death-of-rugby-gets-green-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/rugby-league\/rugby-world-cup-worry-as-new-event-dubbed-the-death-of-rugby-gets-green-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby World Cup worry as new event dubbed ‘the death of rugby’ gets green light"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lawes reviews England's Rugby World Cup semi-final loss to South Africa<\/h3>\n

World Rugby’s new Nations Championship has been given the green light by narrow margins at a council vote in Paris. The new competition, which has previously been dubbed “the death of rugby,” needed a 75 per cent majority to pass and did so with the\u00a0ballot voting 41 to 10 in favour of its formation.<\/p>\n

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According to the Daily Mail, the Test rugby tournament will start in 2026 and is expected to take place every two years with a northern versus southern hemisphere grand final.\u00a0Teams from the southern hemisphere, including Fiji will host three northern hemisphere sides, such as Japan, in the July Test window, before travelling north in the November window.<\/p>\n

The top teams from each pool will then square off for the title. However,\u00a0there are serious concerns that there will be no system of promotion and relegation until at least 2030.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The president of Rugby South America, Sebastian Pineyrua, believes the concept will lead to “the death of rugby” on the international stage – including the Rugby World Cup – with lower-ranking nations left out to dry. “It\u2019s the death of rugby,” he told the Mail. “It will kill rugby. It will be impossible to compete with those teams in four or five years. They\u2019re going to go up and the others will go down.”<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, former\u00a0Argentina captain Agustin Pichot has made it clear that he is staunchly against the lack of manoeuvrability between pools.\u00a0Tier two countries ranked 13 to 24 in the world will compete in a Challenger Series but will be stuck there for at least four years while higher-ranking nations lavish in the top pools.<\/p>\n

“The game I love has to be much bigger,” Pichot said. “One idea was the global season, but they twisted it and they made it a closed shop. Again.”<\/p>\n

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