By PETER JACKSON
THE Six Nations are being offered a stay of execution for up to eight years in their fight to avoid a system of relegation and promotion. In a new attempt to save their proposed World League and its £5 billion investment from a Swissbased backer, the game’s governing body, World Rugby, is understood to have softened its call for the Six Nations to accept relegation as a condition of entry.
The plan for a 12-nation World League, composed of the European elite plus New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Argentina, Japan and Fiji, had been based on the Six Nations a...