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Wales' shock selection, brutal Six Nations and best region - My predictions (opens the original)
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World Rugby is trying to fix the one thing in rugby that isn't broken (opens the original)
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Last week, ahead of the fourth Test between South Africa and New Zealand in Baltimore, World Rugby made it known in less than subtle terms that, at some point in the future, they’d like to go one step further when it came to bringing the game stateside.Not just the final Test of a series that boasted marketing thought up mere minutes ago, but the tournament christened, by itself admittedly, ‘rugby’s greatest championship’. This isn’t Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry (est. 2026) we’re talking about.This
The truth about Abi Tierney's three-year WRU reign of problems and controversy (opens the original)
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Four routes emerge to stop WRU's three-team plan amid calls to oust board (opens the original)
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Calls for the Welsh Rugby Union board to stand down have intensified in recent weeks, as opposition mounts to its plans to reduce the number of Wales’ professional rugby clubs from four to three.The proposed cuts have provoked a fierce backlash, with Go.Compare founder Hayley Parsons and Wales great Jonathan “Jiffy” Davies among those calling for a change of leadership.But what would it actually take to remove the WRU board? And, crucially, is there any way to stop the union from pressing ahead
What happens next in Welsh rugby's civil war as significant factor in background emerges (opens the original)
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