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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 453154" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>At last a sensible post! Yes there is something that can be done.</p><p></p><p>The IRB should adopt a similar model to that which FIFA uses to run its World Cup. Non clashing sponsors should be allowed unrestricted relationships with their teams, clashing sponsors are negotiated by the actual sponsors themselves, the Unions, and the IRB act as mediators.</p><p></p><p>Also, during the six weeks of the RWC, it should be the only game in town, There should be no other professional domestic or cross border rugby competitions being played anywhere else in the world. This would require some "compression" of the remainder of the season, but the lads in the ITM Cup have shown the way. If they can play 10 rounds of round robin competition in 7 weeks with midweek games and four day turnarounds I see no reason why the big boys up north could not also do the same. </p><p></p><p><strong>In the Northern Hemisphere</strong>,this could be achieved one of two ways;</p><p></p><p>The first, and easiest would be to play the pool stages of the Heineken Cup and the Amlin Challenge Cup as a mid-week competition. Six pool rounds = six weeks. The knock out stages revert to weekends.</p><p></p><p>The second is more complicated, but it would require six midweek rounds to be interspersed over the whole of the remaining season. Effectively there would be a midweek round and a four day turnaround for everyone, once per month</p><p></p><p><strong>In the Southern Hemisphere</strong>, three things would have to happen;</p><p></p><p>Firstly, Super Rugby would be required to have short turnarounds as well, but they would have to be dispersed over the whole length of the competition due to travel distances. The schedule would need to be arranged so that each team plays their local derbies consecutively in pairs, and one of them would be midweek, e.g. Crusader play Blues in Auckland on a Saturday, and the Chiefs in Hamilton on a Wednesday, or Highlanders play Hurricanes in Dunedin on a Saturday, and the Crusaders in Christchurch on a Wednesday. This would account for three of the six weeks needed</p><p></p><p>Secondly, Super Rugby would have to start one week earlier. That accounts for four weeks.</p><p></p><p>Thirdly, the ITM Cup starts the weekend after the Super Rugby Final, and the Four Nations starts on the same weekend. That is two weeks earlier than normal, so there are the last two weeks making six weeks saved.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 453154, member: 20605"] At last a sensible post! Yes there is something that can be done. The IRB should adopt a similar model to that which FIFA uses to run its World Cup. Non clashing sponsors should be allowed unrestricted relationships with their teams, clashing sponsors are negotiated by the actual sponsors themselves, the Unions, and the IRB act as mediators. Also, during the six weeks of the RWC, it should be the only game in town, There should be no other professional domestic or cross border rugby competitions being played anywhere else in the world. This would require some "compression" of the remainder of the season, but the lads in the ITM Cup have shown the way. If they can play 10 rounds of round robin competition in 7 weeks with midweek games and four day turnarounds I see no reason why the big boys up north could not also do the same. [B]In the Northern Hemisphere[/B],this could be achieved one of two ways; The first, and easiest would be to play the pool stages of the Heineken Cup and the Amlin Challenge Cup as a mid-week competition. Six pool rounds = six weeks. The knock out stages revert to weekends. The second is more complicated, but it would require six midweek rounds to be interspersed over the whole of the remaining season. Effectively there would be a midweek round and a four day turnaround for everyone, once per month [B]In the Southern Hemisphere[/B], three things would have to happen; Firstly, Super Rugby would be required to have short turnarounds as well, but they would have to be dispersed over the whole length of the competition due to travel distances. The schedule would need to be arranged so that each team plays their local derbies consecutively in pairs, and one of them would be midweek, e.g. Crusader play Blues in Auckland on a Saturday, and the Chiefs in Hamilton on a Wednesday, or Highlanders play Hurricanes in Dunedin on a Saturday, and the Crusaders in Christchurch on a Wednesday. This would account for three of the six weeks needed Secondly, Super Rugby would have to start one week earlier. That accounts for four weeks. Thirdly, the ITM Cup starts the weekend after the Super Rugby Final, and the Four Nations starts on the same weekend. That is two weeks earlier than normal, so there are the last two weeks making six weeks saved. [/QUOTE]
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