Brenden Nel

We've got a foot in both hemispheres.

That was our choice.

We did that.

But you've got a foot in both hemispheres.

So you play September to July in the UFC and the European Cup.

Then you play August, your July internationals.

Then August to October is rugby championship.

And then it's the November tour.

So South African players are playing 12 months a year.

So the top players don't get that six-week break that everybody's supposed to get in off-season, just put your foot up, have a braai, don't do anything else.

They don't get that.

And so they're having to manage it.

So players are getting three weeks here in the Six Nations,

break and three weeks over Christmas and so that's not and after four or five years you're seeing the toll on the bodies and that's where the player welfare and it started on a on a on a situation from are we going to are we going to look at player welfare and Mark Alexander was quite blunt he said world rugby's been talking about a global season for 14 years now yeah and it got nowhere with it and that's very true and

And part of the reason is Six Nations doesn't want to move in the Rugby Championship.

New Zealand doesn't want to move the Rugby Championship forward.

So we're stuck in a bit of an impasse here.

And now they're still trying to log in other competitions like the World Club Cup.

I don't know where they'll get it in the calendar, but they want to get it in the calendar.

And we've got this Nations Cup.