I’d be pretty amenable to it as a fan, but international rivalries drive the economics of the sport in Europe as far as I understand it — and not sure there’s enough interest in/audience for the players themselves that it would really work commercially
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Will believe it when I see it! One of these rumours was overdue — feel like they pop up every couple of years…
e.g “rugby’s answer to cricket's Indian Premier League” from 2021: https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/international/126314973/steve-tew-and-steve-hansen-in-world-12s-rugby-evolution
I’d be pretty amenable to it as a fan, but international rivalries drive the economics of the sport in Europe as far as I understand it — and not sure there’s enough interest in/audience for the players themselves that it would really work commercially