Paul Rees looks at the financial challenges of expanding the global game
Given the problems rugby is facing across the globe, with finances just one of them, a new tournament in an already congested calendar being ripped off the prescription pad appears to be more placebo than cure.
The Rugby World Club Cup, although it will contain far more franchises than clubs, will start in 2028 and be held every four years.
It will be made up of eight teams from the Investec Champions Cup and seven from Super Rugby Pacific and Japan, nominally taking in all the tier one nations except Argentina.
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