Secret Sale
It turns out that World Rugby sneakily tried to sell the international game earlier this year.
Quite how they thought they would get away with it is a mystery and thankfully they were caught red-handed and with their fingers in the till, just about every executive involved began back-tracking as fast as they could to distance themselves from their true intentions.
But no one should doubt that there was a clear and agreed plan to create a 12-team World League that would include the current Six Nations and Rugby Championship teams, with USA and Japan to join the latter.
These 12 teams were going to be guaranteed a place in the World League for 12 years as there was not going to be any promotion or relegation.
The format proposed was that all 12 teams would play each other in a calendar year.
The Northern teams would travel South to play three tests in July – the June window is moving to July in 2020 – and the South would travel North to play the other three teams in November.
