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Premiership Rugby Looking To Establish Ryder Cup-Style Tournament

Premiership Rugby is "developing radical plans" to invite South African teams into an expanded Anglo-Welsh Cup competition and to establish a "Ryder Cup-style event in which the best clubs in Europe go up against the four leading Super Rugby teams," according to Alex Lowe of the LONDON TIMES. Premiership Rugby CEO Mark McCafferty has "long been a proponent of an annual world club challenge," pitching the European champions against the winners of Super Rugby. That idea "is understood to have been shelved," but Premiership Rugby has talked about developing an event once every four years in which "the best four European sides" would play against southern-hemisphere teams over one weekend at a neutral venue, such as Singapore or Dubai, "with the overall results determining the winning hemisphere." Singapore is "anxious to develop its rugby presence, having failed to land a Super Rugby franchise, and could help to fund the idea" (LONDON TIMES, 4/26). In London, Mick Cleary reported discussions "are only at a formative stage but there is a desire to fill the fallow weekends" left vacant by the restructuring of the global season which will see club rugby played until the end of June and int'l tours taking place in July. Premiership Rugby "was intent on making sure that its club competition no longer took place during the November and Six Nations windows" so that the best club players would be available (TELEGRAPH, 4/25).

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