Comments on: Euro-South African tournament to see Premiership final moved to February?

By: Matt B

Matt B — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:05:28 +0000

The RFU and IRB may be living in the past, but this ‘source’ is living on another planet.

By: xxxwookie

xxxwookie — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:46:38 +0000

I doubt this is any serious consideration. Don’t see South Africa wanting to seriously get involved along with the rest of the games they have and the moving between those countries would be a nightmare. I think PRL and NLR are posturing a little bit and saying “we could have this awesome competition instead” when they’ll probably just end up with a Heineken Cup replacement in Europe.

By: Max

Max — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:34:40 +0000

just have a massive world club tournament running instead of the heineken

By: Bill Burgess

Bill Burgess — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:07:58 +0000

I just cannot see how this would work and the reasons are are their for all to see. The South African teams have Super Rugby from Feb to beginning of August, then the Currie Cup. There are incoming and outgoing tours going on June/July in SA and in November/December in UK.
What a stupid idea, shocking, and I will be amazed if ever happens. What i would like to see however is the winner of the Heinekin Cup playing the winners of the Super Rugby!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:19:18 +0000

The pitches are pretty much at their worst in Feb as they haven’t seen any sun for 3 months. This is not a time to hold the annual domestic showpiece which has produced some great entertaining games of running rugby in recent years. Personally I would want to see the 6N moved back a month to reduce the number of 10-a-side games as we got in this years 6N.

Unless the BT sport deal funds a roof for Twickenham this is a shocking idea.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:38:38 +0000

I can’t see the South African clubs buying into another tournament. The Super 15 already runs from Feb-Aug and the Currie Cup Aug-Oct. On top of that you have Summer Tours, The Rugby Championship and the Autumn internationals. And they say the restructure of the European tournament is to increase player welfare!?

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:30:13 +0000

Ridiculous idea. Out of everything to come out of all these stories, this is possibly the worst thing I’ve heard. The Premiership final is in May, I go every year and that is how it should stay. I’m not normally one for sticking to things based on just traditions, but I don’t like the sound of this. Also, The Premiership Final is normally a nice sunny day out, with some running rugby played. In February, it would be far more likely be a reply of Friday night at the Stoop. Whilst I actually don’t mind games like that, a lot of people who aren’t as into rugby find those games very dull. Surely that contradicts the idea of getting more fans involved?

Also, a side question, where has the whole SA thing come from? Why not Argentinian teams, or NZ or Aus? Is it a time zone thing?