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28th February 2019
09:05am GMT

The new format, which is targeted for release by 2020, will see each of the 12 teams play one another once every year, with a semi-final between the top four teams in the table and final to take place in either late November or early December.
The plan is to have each of the Six Nations travel to the Southern Hemisphere for three randomly allocated tests each in the summer.
So, essentially, Ireland would play three teams down south in July and then welcome the three Southern Hemisphere teams they didn't play in the summer to the Northern Hemisphere in November.
Some massive stadiums have been named as potential venues for the semi-finals and final, with Barcelona's Nou Camp and Chicago's Soldier Field suggested in the radical proposal.Explore more on these topics: