Connect with us

Champions Cup

Another barmy idea from the men in suits

What’s in

The Ministry of Silly Walks was a Monty Python sketch which lampooned bureaucratic inefficiency. Rugby Union requires something similar to shame the unaccountable administrators turning our sport’s prized tournaments into wastelands.
“The Ministry of Crap Competitions” sounds about right, based on the plans mooted this week for a World Club Cup, which advocates the barmy notion that the European Cup and Super Rugby be curtailed at the quarter-final stage every fourth year.
The big idea is to put the top eight clubs from the North and eight franchises from the South into an inter-hemisphere 1...

Continue reading...

Access all our premium content from as little as 14p per day!

SUBSCRIBE

Already a subscriber to our website? Login

Related Topics
Click to comment
 

Tackle the News

- Sign Up for our weekly Rugby Newsletter
Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again.
Your subscription has been successful.

The Rugby Paper

Stadium Solutions

Arg v SA

Collinson Tensile

Taurus TapeLifting Giants

One Year To Go

Stadium Solutions

The best betting sites

Globusbet

£10 MINIMUM DEPOSIT CASINOSonline-casinos-nz-banner

Betzillion UKGGBet

free bets

More in Champions Cup