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Promotion and relegation at Test level, a bigger role for the Lions and supporting the Pacific nations… SIR CLIVE WOODWARD’s 10-point plan to save rugby – and why Gus Pichot has the vision to implement it as he goes up against Bill Beaumont

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Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and Japan have nowhere to go. Is there any attempt at positive discrimination? The Lions should also occasionally tour Uruguay, Canada and the United States — on one tour — and the Pacific Islands and Japan on another. They can be relegated but not promoted. It’s the same in the Southern Hemisphere.