Open Opinion

In between the Q&A's I will be writing when I can just open opinion's on various subjects of rugby in America ( both codes).

My current set of issues I have is with both USA Rugby and the USARL, if you have been pay attention on the various bids for the RWC fallowing japan you will know Argentina is making massive move to host the 2027 WC, and speaking very publicly about there process and ambitions to have the games played in south America, which is great I have nothing to knock them down and I do hope the WC does eventually come to the Americas but what I am most upset about is the lack of word from USAR. I do believe the time to host the WC is now and if not in 2027 then the next closes time to even try and put up a bid is 2035. The reason I say 2035 is because I highly doubt World Rugby will want back to back World cups played in the Americas and the other unions willing to vote for such a move. so most likely is one of the other T1 nations will get the rights to 2031 which MAY give some breathing room to come back to America's. But we are talking 2035! that's over a decade from now that the USA MAY get a chance to host. which is why I believe now is the time to make the move, now is the time everyone involved with USAR needs to put together a ambitious plan and place a bid with World Rugby to get the rights to 2027.thats 10 years from now for USA Rugby to get all there ducks in a row and to also push for a massive education to the rest of the country about rugby. Get the collegiate game under control and cleaned up, get into place our own rugby league and to help establish the ether Pro12/Super Rugby franchise we have been hearing about forever now which will help prepare the men's national team to compete and to finally make it out of the group stage.

I hope to see/hear USA Rugby become much more vocal soon about there plans for a Rugby World Cup hosted soon, heck with the very intriguing plans that recently came out about a tri bid between US Soccer, Canada Soccer and FMF Mexico may USAR should look to see if teaming up with Canada will help the chances of both countries winning a chance to host the WC.

Now with USARL, just to put it very frank, there needs to be more activity from the league, there is only one email listed on the website to communicate with someone, but to who know one knows. There website is very rarely kept up to date and the teams them self's don't seem to do much communication with fans. I would love to see the CEO of USARL and the Commissioner of the USARL league have there contacts made available for anyone who wish to reach them. Since the announcement of the Rugby league World cup coming to North America there has been little to almost nothing coming out from the USARL on anything, from how they plan to work with the people putting together the World Cup or how they plan to spread the code of league to the youth. what would be a great first step would be to make games available to people to watch in and outside the country, maybe youth stream it? and if so promote it on your website and on message boards. what's sad or frustrating is there are fans, there are people who want to watch the USARL who want to see how the game is developing and the USARL is failing miserably to satisfy even the most dedicated fans. now I must say I am not trying to say USARL you fail time for someone else to move in but what I am saying is USARL you are failing and you need to fix this now.