The Ministry of Silly Walks was a Monty Python sketch which lampooned bureaucratic inefficiency. Rugby Union requires something similar to shame the unaccountable administrators turning our sport’s prized tournaments into wastelands.
“The Ministry of Crap Competitions” sounds about right, based on the plans mooted this week for a World Club Cup, which advocates the barmy notion that the European Cup and Super Rugby be curtailed at the quarter-final stage every fourth year.
The big idea is to put the top eight clubs from the North and eight franchises from the South into an inter-hemisphere 1...