A Seventh Nation in Six Nations Rugby is Happening, AND HERE’S WHY!

** I just want to offer my apologies ** I clearly misread during my research, the championship sides coming in to the world rugby competition in 2026 aren’t from Europe, they’re from SANZAAR Championship. South Africa, Argentina, New Zealand, and Australia. I promise to do better in future 😔

Rugby should be doing all in its power to grow the game... Europe, South America, Pacific Islands, Africa... Kenya are amazing at sevens, for example... growing the game is how you get more money long term!

No Way should SA. Join. Let Africa build its own African Tournament. The wooden Spoon Winners in top tier be Relegated and winner of B tier come up. Not Complicated

1) Love our Saffas friends and I'm glad they are with us in the URC, BUT it would sincerely be the worst idea ever to add them to the 6N. It would just kill what makes international rugby so great (6N/RC on one side and test rugby/World Cup on the other). It would dilute everything. 2) A relegation system won't happen simply because of $$$. The 6 federations greatly depend from the 6N money. A relegation for Wales, Italy, Scotland or Ireland would instantly kill their domestic rugby. France and England might survive a bit but it surely wouldn't be pretty to watch. 3) This tournament is almost 150 years old. That + the fact that the 6 countries are all neighbors are what make this competition so special. Especially for the lads from the home nations, they surely would never accept a format that may prevent them from playing each other to compete for the Triple Crowns (or Calcutta cup for SCO/ENG). It was World Rugby's job to sort things out to help the game to grow and this new incoming Nations League was the opportunity. But they failed miserably by only allowing the promo/relegation system to start from 2030 and not directly in 2026. Such a shame for the Tier 2 teams.

Romania had its strong years, but the cream of Tier Two is clearly Georgia. Yes, the RWC appearance was not great at all, but Georgia dominates Tier Two the way Italy used to until they made 6 Nations.

I'm an American who hasn't watched a single game or rugby or even really care about it, but i watched the whole video, good content man!

For me the six nations should be a European competition. I’d prefer to see other tier 2 European teams growing and developing through being added.

Well put together - surprised that you only have 678 subscribers. Make that 679 ... I can going to check out your other content. Subbed😃👍

Editing is on point man, subbed.

Great content and editing! Thank you for the video

The main critisism of the Six Nations from other teams is they don’t get to test themselves against the best. If there was a European Championship along the lines of football. And Six Nations teams participated in European qualifiers for World Cups (No automatic qualifying for next tournament for third or better in pool stage) the game could actually be given a chance to grow outside tier 1 nations. If they did that they could keep the Six Nations to themselves. And they could use the qualifiers to give new guys a chance or the U20s

Great video - above and beyond your subscriber count

Keep the euro teams playing euro teams. The Southern hemisphere has its own nations comps. Having SA muddying the 6 nations would be stupid. There are so many countries in Europe that could benefit with a promo relegation comp that that is where the growth should happen for Europe.

South Africa no. South Africa please God no.

Questionning Italy's involvement only under the prism of the win/lost rate is totaly misleading. Of course from that point of view they don't deserve their seat in the tournament at all. In the worsts years, let's say, 2018-2021, anyone could get the bonus point before half-time with their B team. Fortunatly, it had never been that bad before, far from it. They won 2 games in 2007 and 2 games in 2013, and around those years, they beat france twice, wales once and scotland quite regularly. Most important, they were often close to win other matches or at least, almost always gave a good challenge, and one-sides games were pretty rare. You can't tell to a nation who trhought these 2 decades gave the game players like Dominguez, Troncon, Bergamasco brothers, Lo Cicero, Parisse, Castrogiovani, Masi, Lamaro, Garbisi, Capuozzo... To go down and put 70 points to Belgium and Germany.

Well put together. New sub

Lol adding the springboks will just mean no other team will list that trophy again

Super pleased with this one. What’s your thoughts about an extra nation ?

I've always thought the six nations should work on the bottom team being demoted to the tier 2 European tournament and the Winner of that said tournament promoted to the six nations, which would heat up both contests and give tier 2 sides more experience of world class rugby. It's got to be good for the game, hasn't it?

You mentioned England beat Romania several times but failed to mention Scotland beat Romania 84 - 0 (12 tries to 0) just a few months ago. Romania's record is good because they don't play good teams! The tier one nations don't even send their best players. The problem that needs to be tackled is the massive division between tier 1 and tier 2 nations.