There’s an old adage, ‘When you’ve nothing to say, say nothing’, and it’s one that World Rugby would do well to take to heart. When you see a Press release entitled ‘Rugby united in approach to optimising the men’s international calendar’ it’s reasonable to think it might be followed by something of substance, but what we got was waffle and management-speak of the most ridiculous kind.
The so-called global calendar is a running sore that has plagued the game for some years now, and the reasons behind it are a mystery to me. Here in England we have the Premiership, the Six Nations, the Autumn...