Formulating a Plan to Resolve the Heineken Cup Dispute

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Published: September 25, 2013

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Being set this task is a bit like being sent to ask Rangers and Celtic fans if they wouldn’t mind awfully just getting along.

It’s never going to happen.

And in the last few days it seems equally unlikely that the Heineken Cup, at least in its present state, will last beyond the current campaign.

The English clubs are out. They are as out as an angry Peter Jones from the Dragon's Den who’s just been pitched a fireguard made of chocolate fingers. They couldn’t be more out if they tried. Out.

The French would like to be out with them, but they have a problem, they’re bound by French law to compete only in tournaments sanctioned by their governing body. At the moment, that means they have no chance of competing in what they and their fellow rebels have called The Rugby Champions Cup.

So as it stands, it’s the Heineken Cup or nothing for them in the 2014-15 season.

Should they opt for nothing, it leaves the Irish, Welsh, Scots and Italians supping at the Heineken bar, which, if you haven’t twigged it yet, gives us the same competitors as those in the RaboDirect PRO12.

The suits at Heineken must be thrilled.


How to resolve this awful mess? We’re going to try in three steps.

 

1. For God's sake, go to the meeting

Canadian lawyer Graeme Mew has been appointed to mediate in this mess.

This is the same Graeme Mew who ruled there was nothing to change about a questionable IRB decision earlier this summer. The decision in question was that they choose not to cite Wallabies skipper James Horwill after his boot made contact with the head of Alun-Wyn Jones in the second Lions test of the summer. Hmm.

There is a meeting set for October 23rd which, currently, the English and French clubs have no interest in attending, adamant that their new tournament will begin in 201...
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