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Travel fatigue has to be factored in

FORGET about the relative abilities and world standings of the 12 teams in the new Nations Championship, it is heavily stacked in favour of the Southern Hemisphere teams for one reason – travel.
Take Wales, for example, they opened with a match against Fiji which, fortunately, was in Cardiff only because Fiji do not have the facilities needed to hold such a game. The next match was in San Juan, Argentina. A flight distance, requiring at least one stop, of 4,400 miles and taking 16 hours. From there they headed to Durban, another 7,250 miles and 20-plus hours! England flew down ...

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