Italy’s Conor O’Shea backs Nations Championship despite relegation threat
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• Team finishing bottom of Six Nations would face play-off• ‘If the rich kids just win everything we don’t have a game’The Italy head coach, Conor O’Shea, has come out in support of World Rugby’s controversial proposal for a new global league despite the obvious threat it poses to his side’s place in the Six Nations.World Rugby insisted on Wednesday that promotion and relegation from the Six Nations every two years was a fundamental part of its proposed Nations Championship, which would start in 2022. Under the proposal, the team who finish bottom of the Six Nations would face a play-off again…





