International Rugby News
The World Rugby Council approved a temporary adjustment to Regulation 9 to accommodate the release of international players for revised 2020 windows, paving the way for international games to be played this fall.
USA Youth & High School Rugby is still evaluating whether to be part of USA Rugby under USA Rugby terms—or so it appears according to sources.
World Rugby has announced a change to the 2020-2021 HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series.
After earlier shuttering the rest of the 2019-2020 season and declaring the existing standings leaders the champions (New Zealand for both men and women, as it happened), World Rugby has now been forced to adjust the coming season as well.
Various organizations within USA Rugby have some form of leverage.
NCR has a potential membership pool of 15,000, and a large percentage of that pool is happy to play rugby within their own competitive group. Thus, the potential threat from USA Rugby to ban cross-divisional play between NCR teams and non-NCR teams carries little weight with those teams.
After USA Rugby's plans for a new dues structure became public, some organizations are pushing back.
USA Rugby Provides New Dues Breakdown
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