What if South Africa joined the Six Nations tournament?

Virginie Phulpin 7:25 a.m., February 18, 2022

What if South Africa joined the 6 Nations Tournament?

Discussions are underway for the Springboks, world rugby champions, to join the competition from 2025. This is nonsense at all levels. 

Let us think about an evolution of the 6 Nations Tournament, why not.

When it went from 5 to 6 nations with the integration of Italy in the year 2000, there was no drama.

But there it has nothing to do.

This Tournament is the flagship competition of the Northern Hemisphere.

I said North.

South Africa has nothing to do there!

By trampling on traditions, we will end up finding ourselves with empty shells without a past and without a future.

What makes the salt of this Tournament are these ancestral rivalries between neighboring nations, with a common history.

And for the southern hemisphere, do you think that's a good idea?

The Springboks currently face New Zealand, Australia and Argentina in the Four Nations.

That too is an institution.

If you take South Africa out, it doesn't look like much.

In fact we will succeed in unbalancing the two hemispheres at once with this idea.

And then in rugby, there are the nations that we face every year, our little ritual, and those that we only come across during world cups or test matches, those from the South.

This is what makes these posters between North and South even more exceptional.

There, it looks like the idea of ​​FIFA with its World Cup every two years.

Trivialize the exceptional to make it bland.

it looks like the idea of ​​FIFA with its world cup every two years.

Trivialize the exceptional to make it bland.

it looks like the idea of ​​FIFA with its world cup every two years.

Trivialize the exceptional to make it bland. 

Yes, but the integration of South Africa would yield more. 

It is always the lure of gain that leads to this kind of thinking contrary to the spirit of a competition.

The CVC investment fund entered the capital of the 6 Nations Tournament a few months ago.

And his obsession is to generate more profits.

Already next year, South African teams will participate in the European Rugby Cups.

So the next step, in their logic, is that the Springboks join the 6 Nations Tournament.

It's a seller, world champions.

Except that's a short-term thought.

Trampling values ​​in a sport that claims so much, I'm not sure that's the best calculation.

I understand that we have to spice up the 6 Nations Tournament, even if I find it already quite attractive.

Was anyone bored in front of France Ireland last week?

But let's admit.

In this case, why not adopt a system of promotions and relegations, as in the club championships?

It would push the teams to give more, there would be more dramaturgy, and we would perhaps see the emergence of new nations that would rub shoulders with the big ones.

European nations, please.

Let's leave South Africa in the southern hemisphere.

I remind you that many children learn geography through sport.

This could get a little complicated...

and we would perhaps see the emergence of new nations that would rub shoulders with the big ones.

European nations, please.

Let's leave South Africa in the southern hemisphere.

I remind you that many children learn geography through sport.

This could get a little complicated...

and we would perhaps see the emergence of new nations that would rub shoulders with the big ones.

European nations, please.

Let's leave South Africa in the southern hemisphere.

I remind you that many children learn geography through sport.

This could get a little complicated...