Big guns snub call for rugby in summer

By PETER JACKSON

Non! Paul Goze

THE English and French clubs are refusing to sacrifice their traditional winter game on the altar of a global season as driven by the southern hemisphere.
While Top 14 president Paul Goze declares such a radical change ‘non-nego- tiable', a hefty majority of Gallagher Premiership clubs are understood to oppose a move to summer.
World Rugby's powerbrokers favoured a model based around two international windows - one in March-April for the Six Nations and Rugby Championship, the other in October-November for inter-hemisphere tours. That would mean the ...

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