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Billion-dollar R360 competition is on its way, but with no tribes attached nobody will care

Peter FitzSimons Columnist and author October 4, 2025 — 5.30am Advertisement

So, here we go again.

In the wake of the news that the global rebel rugby competition R360 has reportedly received over a billion dollars of funding and will launch in October of next year, the parallels are obvious.

For it, of course, brings to mind other such moments when the card table was upturned, all the cards went flying, and everything was disrupted until all the cards started to land and – pausing only to snarl at each other – everyone leaned forward to see what the new world order looked like.

The most obvious examples in these parts, of course, is Kerry P

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