AS surprises go, it falls into the “Pope revealed as a Catholic” category. According to the most recent round of press reports on the Nations Championship and associated matters, there is growing resistance to the idea of promotion and relegation being introduced in four years’ time. Who’d have thought it? Blow me down with a feather.
Under the agreement covering the tournamentisation – is that a word? – of the summer and autumn Test windows, the teams finishing bottom of the two hemispheric pools in 2030 must play off for the right to remain ...