And Australian rugby league\u2019s NRL said any player who joined the breakaway league would be banned for 10 years.<\/p>\n
The British and Irish Lions this week said any player who signed up would not be picked for the 2027 women\u2019s tour to New Zealand.<\/p>\n
The R360 competition has backing from private investors and 2003 Rugby World Cup winner Tindall is the public face of the project, which is shrouded in secrecy.<\/p>\n
Reports say it would involve six to eight men\u2019s teams and four women\u2019s teams in a franchise league.<\/p>\n
But there are concerns among rugby chiefs about where the competition would fit into an already packed calendar.<\/p>\n
The new date for the planned launch would avoid the men\u2019s Rugby World Cup in 2027 and the landmark first women\u2019s Lions tour.<\/p>\n
But the inaugural Club World Cup is also planned for 2028.<\/p>\n
Tindall said the aim of R360 was to create a \u201cglobal showcase league\u201d to boost rugby\u2019s appeal.<\/p>\n
He said many of the world\u2019s best players, both men and women, continued to express strong interest in joining the breakaway competition.<\/p>\n
The R360 statement on Friday also included a section addressing what it called \u201cmisinformation\u201d about the proposed competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere has been much misinformation briefed out about the league,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
\u201cRather than rigorously address this on a case-by-case, R360 has kept its counsel to minimise the resultant impact on players and rugby stakeholders, while readying an exciting launch that would unveil the full proposition, involving more than 200 leading players in the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter players were threatened with the punishment of no longer representing their country or being banned from returning to the NRL, only a handful of players from around the world withdrew from the project.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the same period, R360 added a further dozen Test match players to its ranks.\u201d<\/p>\n
R360 had been hoping to gain approval from the sport\u2019s global governing body, World Rugby, at its council meeting next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And Australian rugby league\u2019s NRL said any player who joined the breakaway league would be banned for 10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[32601,9490,32613,64,63,8421,22806,22279,79965,1852,1899,10360,2877,177999,15624,75344,106273,6658,131377,760,44985,169979,85,1974,177998,5324,319,32388],"class_list":["post-314884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-32601","tag-after","tag-announced","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-back","tag-been","tag-competition","tag-delays","tag-games","tag-have","tag-launch","tag-league","tag-organisers","tag-player","tag-proposed","tag-pushed","tag-r360","tag-rebel","tag-rugby","tag-rugbys","tag-scheduled","tag-sports","tag-stars","tag-targeting","tag-threats","tag-to","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}