{"id":48067,"date":"2025-10-10T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/schmidt-dt-wallabies-analyzes-r360-rebel-league-is-rugby-rival\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:53:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:53:40","slug":"schmidt-dt-wallabies-analyzes-r360-rebel-league-is-rugby-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/schmidt-dt-wallabies-analyzes-r360-rebel-league-is-rugby-rival\/","title":{"rendered":"Schmidt, DT Wallabies, analyzes R360 rebel league: Is rugby rival?"},"content":{"rendered":"Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt has compared the R360 rugby competition proposal to the IPL of cricket, although he harbors doubts about its success.\n\nThe ambitious independent rugby competition plans to establish teams in London, Miami, Tokyo, Dubai, Boston, Cape Town, Lisbon, and Madrid, with the start scheduled for October 2026.\n\nEach round of the tournament would be played in a different city, similar to the Rugby Sevens circuit.\n\nContracts of up to $1.4 million per season will be offered, and players would participate in a draft to determine their destination.\n\nAccording to reports, several current Wallabies players and NRL stars have already been contacted.\n\nRugby Australia is preparing to ban test players who decide to participate in the competition, which could cause a great stir ahead of the 2027 World Cup.\n\nThe independent competition claims to have secured financial backing for three years.\n\nSchmidt, who considers himself an old-school traditionalist, has mixed feelings about the new proposed competition.\n\n

I think with a concept like 360, one tends to move away from the roots of the game.<\/p>Joe Schmidt<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n

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Joe Schmidt, entrenador de Australia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nSchmidt expressed that he grew up in the roots of the game and that the proposal seems a bit strange to him.\n\n

It’s a bit like the IPL, isn’t it? It was transformative for cricket.<\/p>Joe Schmidt<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nSchmidt commented that he enjoys watching the Big Bash and thinks it’s a good concept.\n\n

At the same time, long-term cricket traditions, such as five-day cricket, or matches played over three or four days, still appeal to me.<\/p>Joe Schmidt<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nSchmidt isn’t sure what the new competition will look like and finds it difficult to predict.\n\nThe Wallabies prop, Allan Alaalatoa, said he hasn’t looked too much into the new competition.\n\n

I wouldn’t know much about that, because I haven’t been contacted.<\/p>Allan Alaalatoa<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nAlaalatoa added that many players have signed until the 2027 World Cup, so they are focused on the next moment and giving their all for their state union and, most importantly, for the Wallabies.\n\nT20 cricket and competitions like the IPL helped attract a new generation of sports fans.\n\nSchmidt believes that rugby is already doing a good job of attracting children to the game.\n\n

We had a full stadium at Allianz, and there were many children.<\/p>Joe Schmidt<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nSchmidt mentioned that he has received incredible letters from children expressing their pride in supporting the Wallabies.\n\nSchmidt concluded that there is still a connection and that it is his responsibility to continue cultivating it.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt has compared the R360 rugby competition proposal to the IPL of cricket, although he harbors doubts about its success. The ambitious independent rugby competition plans to establish teams in London, Miami, Tokyo, Dubai, Boston, Cape Town, Lisbon, and Madrid, with the start scheduled for October 2026. Each round of the tournament […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[4590,890,6489,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-48067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rugby","7":"tag-ipl","8":"tag-joe-schmidt","9":"tag-r360","10":"tag-rugby"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}