Should the 6Ns be moved to Spring time?

Currently the 6Ns starts on the first weekend in February, ending usually on the penultimate weekend in March.

How about instead we play the club season through from September to April. That would be 35 weekends available with "Domestic Leagues" needing 24 weeks and Europe 9 weeks. International coaches could thus have their squads for a couple of weeks and then play the 6Ns through May.

Think of the historyyyyyy you're ruining LT!!! It's the best tournament in the world blah blah blah I fear change blah mutter...

Yes it should be moved and having the club games run in one block and then internationals in another makes a lot of sense.

yappysnap wrote:Think of the historyyyyyy you're ruining LT!!! It's the best tournament in the world blah blah blah I fear change blah mutter...

Yes it should be moved and having the club games run in one block and then internationals in another makes a lot of sense.

I agree, but with the bloated club format I can't see this changing anytime soon.

Boss man says no.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/sixnations/11329921/Six-Nations-to-be-shifted-to-later-in-the-season-No-chance-says-organiser.html

I would change the 6 nations completely

Wales and Ireland should Southern Hemisphere sides to form a new 6 nations

The remaining 4 teams from the north could bring in someone like Georgia and Romania

That way we would have two 6 nations of top tier and second tier

That would be wonderful. I'd go for that without a doubt.

Steffan wrote:I would change the 6 nations completely

Wales and Ireland should Southern Hemisphere sides to form a new 6 nations

The remaining 4 teams from the north could bring in someone like Georgia and Romania

That way we would have two 6 nations of top tier and second tier

Good wum

I remember the English media bringing this up they were on top.

Yes, yes, a million times yes.

I can't understand why any one wants to move it?

The 6N's brings in plenty of cash where it is, I don't think we're going to find a better time in the season that'll bring in more...

Move the World Cup to Spring.... a better taste of players in form than starting out fresh with no season to reflect on and only 'friendlies' to work from.

If we want the NH to make the final four at world cups then I think moving it is a fundamental. The suggestion in the OP is probably the closest to a global season we'll get. I doubt however, that the clubs in England and France will budge.

mikey_dragon wrote:If we want the NH to make the final four at world cups then I think moving it is a fundamental. The suggestion in the OP is probably the closest to a global season we'll get. I doubt however, that the clubs in England and France will budge.

I reckon the English clubs would be happy with a season that ran uninterrupted from September to April. French would not. Their ideal season sees europe finished in January, then 6Ns, then the finale to the T14.

6Ns committee and TV would be unwilling to move to May as then they are competing with the end of the football season.

Sadly a global season can never happen as there are too many non-negotiables. SH Want their season to run from Feb to October, we want September to May. Neither hemisphere wants to play in the summer months.

Fair one, LT. If the English clubs agree to it, the Welsh would be in tow! Maybe France could fit in their Top 14 finalé after the 6 nations, as they do have a longer season as it is.

I didn't consider that. Do they compete directly with the NRL in the SH, or is that played at different times/months? If they overlap then surely the SH is doing something right to be on air the same time as the NRL and not go bust.

Yep, but I think your suggestion is close. If we still have summer tests then surely with your idea that would need to be moved forward to July - I know the SH would disagree, but in an ideal world they wouldn't and we'd get non-stop rugby across the world. It seems the AI's don't fit with your idea though, and they're a huge money spinner for us lot.

Oh and I don't know why we don't play in summer months. I've watched end of season Wales games played in June, each time on a beautiful day - they were some of my best ever days in Cardiff.

Absolutely not.

There's nothing I like better than standing in the garden of the Murrayfield Hotel early February in a kilt and short sleeve rugby top, shivering so uncontrollably and in such a manner that half my pint is slopping over the sides onto the paving.

Tattie Scones RRN wrote:Absolutely not.

There's nothing I like better than standing in the garden of the Murrayfield Hotel early February in a kilt and short sleeve rugby top, shivering so uncontrollably and in such a manner that half my pint is slopping over the sides onto the paving.

Spring, Winter, Summer - all the same in Scotland.

Joking aside,

My season would look like this:

September - December :
Domestic leagues Pro12/Aviva/Top14

January - February
European Group stages

April - May
6N

June
European Knockout stages

July
Summer Tours

This is based on rough handfuls.

New question. Should this topic be on this forum every stuffing year?