WELCOME to Northern Hemisphere rugby’s endless road. An 11 month season which purports to be all things to all men, but actually gives the Southern Hemisphere most of what it wants, while the North – the cash machine that keeps funding the global pro game – has to contemplate a season that stretches to infinity…and beyond.
World Rugby’s latest blueprint for a global schedule, which is to run from 2020 to 2032, has been hailed by their chairman, Bill Beaumont, as one that, “provides certainty and stability” and represents “an historic mileston...