Nations Championship

[Strewthcobber]

The way this thing pays for itself is $$$ from interest in UK and France.

 

[Major Tom]

Let us all bow our heads to our Northen Hemisphere overlords.

 

[Major Tom]

The way this thing pays for itself is $$$ from interest in UK and France.

I mean what does the winner get? England getting home field advantage if they make it there.
I don't have a problem if nations pay to host it.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

RFU own Twickenham so would presumably collect a fee from the organisers for hosting regardless of whether Ringinland qualify.

OTOH Wembley holds more (90K v 82 per Google) so maybe organisers will look there instead (or at least use that as a bargaining tool with RFU).

 

[WorkingClassRugger]

I did the loose math previously, but that was based on rumoured figures and there’s a lot of unknowns like travel costs etc. but I believe RA were likely to get an extra $5-$10million the years it runs.

for teams like Fiji, potentially this could be a even greater jump if they’re hosting home games in other countries with larger stadiums.

There's the sponsorship rights of £80m ($162m). We're up for 10% of that over the first editions. Apparently there's also revenue sharing or there was revenue sharing on the table. So you're probably pretty close.