Player exodus threatens international rugby and European unions | The Breakdown

Nov 17, 2016

Talks over a global calendar are all very well, but the international game is being undermined by clubs, mainly in the Top 14, taking advantage of its instability

Brighton is an unlikely setting for a rugby revolution, but Japan’s 34-32 victory against South Africa there in the World Cup last year showed how the old order was changing. There had been shocks before, not least Western Samoa beating Wales in Cardiff in 1991, but the toppling of the Springboks, twice winners of the tournament and who had never before lost to a tier two nation, brought a giant crashing to the ground.

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