8 nations,

[taylor]

what,s your view,s on changing the six nations to eight,?    Romania, and Georgia, in my opinion they would ruin it,  they just aint good enough.

[sinto]

  Romania, and Georgia, in my opinion they would ruin it,  they just aint good enough.

That's a good thing surely?
It'll mean Wales won't come last

[Robbie8666]

Nooo!!
 
I agree it should stay as 6 nations, was good enough when it was 5 nations!

[sadlonelygit]

neither were italy when they joined, but look how they have improved.
just think of the TV revenue income.

[BBROWN1664]

I think it will be good for the completion. Italy were shite but put on a good game now. Yes, for a couple of years they will be the whipping boys but they will get better as a result meaning more high level rugby in the northern hemisphere.

[Deefer666]

Cant see why its a good idea... We have the world cup for teams outside of the 6 nations. If you keep adding nations to the 6 nations then we will just have yearly world cup. Kinda defeats the object really

[Phil]

There is already the European Nations Cup.

https://goo.gl/72H8Th   

The European Nations Cup, or ENC – sometimes referred to as the Six Nations B – is the European Championship for tier 2 and tier 3 rugby union nations.

To develop the Northern Hemisphere rugby scene, I read somewhere that the top ENC team should have a promotion/relegation playoff with the worst 6 Nations team. If a country from the ENC, eg Romania is good enough, they will then play in the 6 Nations.

[Skippernick]

Look at Argentina 3/4 years in the Southern hemisphere version and they would beat anyone form the northern hemisphere.


My gripe would be that it would last ages and club rugby would suffer as players would be away on international duty, not that i'm a bitter Bath fan who provide a lot of the England team at the moment.

[taylor]

a friend of mine played for bath many years ago dave Hilton,        he used to work in his fathers butchers in knowle.        nice bloke.      he went to Scotland to help you lot sinto and look what happened to him.       talk about shit on from a great height.

[BBROWN1664]

Lets have the Northern hemisphere cup and a breakaway 4-nations (home nations) tournament

[sinto]

a friend of mine played for bath many years ago dave Hilton,        he used to work in his fathers butchers in knowle.        nice bloke.      he went to Scotland to help you lot sinto and look what happened to him.       talk about shit on from a great height.

I'm not in total knowledge of all things rugby, so I wouldn't know what you were talking about what happened to him? (Dave Hilton)
I like watching it as it's a lot better than those pansy football players.
I think the more coverage on TV will boost the audience too and maybe get more revenue back into the club's which wouldn't be a bad thing.

[taylor]

well said colin.     dave was a lovely guy religious family and all that.    his family lived all over the world.      he could have played for England,  but had no chance because the where playing great rugby at the time, ..       wales where playing shit so he didn't come here,.        , so he went to Scotland who where doing okay .    then someone found something to say his claim to Scotland wasn't valid.      I spoke to him before he went he honestly belived   he had Scottish family.        but because he played for you that was the end of any international  carear .    poor dave lost in the wilderness.

[sinto]

well said colin.     dave was a lovely guy religious family and all that.    his family lived all over the world.      he could have played for England,  but had no chance because the where playing great rugby at the time, ..       wales where playing shit so he didn't come here,.        , so he went to Scotland who where doing okay .    then someone found something to say his claim to Scotland wasn't valid.      I spoke to him before he went he honestly belived   he had Scottish family.        but because he played for you that was the end of any international  carear .    poor dave lost in the wilderness.

That's an absolute shambles, there's people that play for various countries in various sports down to their great grandparents being from that certain country, as far as i thought once you've played for a country you can't play for any other country, but I'm sure somewhere I heard that someone had done just that, I also think it's a possibility that they might of played amateur for the one country before going to the other so that might of been the clause.
It's a real shame that happened to him, I bet though he's not the only one, foccin rules sometimes are a disgrace

[BBROWN1664]

A certain well known England rugby coach who played for England also played for the All Blacks as an U21 (IIRC)

[Phil]

New Zealand, South Africa and Australia have the super 15 competition where the 5 top regions from each country play in a championship. So their top players play against higher quality competition more, which raises their standards. Maybe.

Super 15 runs from the end of Feb to July/early August.
The next level of competition in NZ runs from the end of July/early August to late October, so no clashes with players for the super 15 competition.

NZ rugby structure here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_of_rugby_union_in_New_Zealand

Is certainly a different way of doing things. 

[Andy Clap]

Lets have the Northern hemisphere cup and a breakaway 4-nations (home nations) tournament

  Yup, that's what I think to.

[midden]

It should have remained the 5 nations

[taylor]

looks like wales are going to host a few more tier two games over the next couple of years,,   to aid development you lot coming down colin , that's got to be better than making the (8 NATIONS)

[sinto]

looks like wales are going to host a few more tier two games over the next couple of years,,   to aid development you lot coming down colin , that's got to be better than making the (8 NATIONS)

I resemble that remark  taylor
But to be totally honest, I really don't understand understand what you mean by tier two? I generally only get to see it once it's on the TV, I think the world cup was good for the quality of rugby, some neat stuff being played