World cups over, time to suggest every crazy idea you can suck out of a can of Speights/VB/Hansa and make sure you mention it first to your media mates before suggesting it to, say, SANZAR.
The latest incarnation of which is O’Neill’s idea that we should extend the Super 14 to a half Japanese, half-Australian side. Will they based in Melbourne, then? Where no one knows what rugby is? Probably.
What happened to the Argies is what I want to know. How well did Japan do in the RWC? No idea, but not in the top 8. Probably not in the top 10. But do they have money? Ho yes. Do the Argies? No. Do the Pacific islanders?
TV revenue’s will dictate the outcome of that one.
The one I like the most is the 6 nations winners having a crack at the trinations champions. They can meet in the equator. Somewhere in the Congo or Sri Lanka. Or Pakistani controlled Kashmir (did you know that Kashmir comes from the words Ka, meaning Water and Shmir which means “desiccated by”. The land desiccated by water). The Desiccation cup, perhaps.
But I guess they have to do something about the Super 14 format. Its gonna start loosing money. But you wouldn’t have know that from watching the Bulls match last week. Now that’s a team with some fans.
