PLANS are afoot to reorganise World Rugby’s showpiece annual U20 competitions – the Junior World Cup and the U20 trophy – to hopefully give the participating teams and Unions more bang for their buck and a smoother player development. Nothing has been set in stone but discussions are ongoing.
One very likely and possibly overdue development is increasing the number of teams at the JWC from an unwieldy 12 to a much more logical 16. The existing format of three pools of four with pool winners and the best second place team making the semi-finals has always been a bi...