Canalina
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Are the stars aligning for a 6N expansion?
09 Jan 2020 12:45
I repeat my usual position on this account.
The Six Nations are a closed club but they don’t prevent other nations to play rugby.
The Home Nations created rugby,
they made the legend of rugby (also through the closed Four/Five/Six Nations),
they made rugby famous, they directly or indirectly spreaded rugby to all the world.
The other european nations have all the freedom to play rugby and to create rugby competitions.
In fact there was an european cup for not-home-nations clubs (the Continental Shield, a total flop, now defunct),
there were some trans-national competitions for clubs (like the Baltic Cup or the Nordic Cup, both now defunct)
and an european championship for nations, which nobody follows apart the nations involved and we rugby nerds.
Plus there’s an european confederation since 1935 circa.
Now there’s finally this Kontinental Club Liga created by the russian federation;
let’s hope it may put roots and flourish.
(Russia is trying to create a new rugby pole in the east,
bidding for the World Cup, hosting -and winning- some Euro 7s stages,
purposing this new league for clubs and
organizing by their own the European Beach and Snow Championships.
Kudos to them, that’s the way).
Could the Home Nations/Six Nations do more for the involment of the rest of the continent?
Probably.
Is it their fault if rugby is not so popular in the rest of Europe?
No.
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