A REVIEW was a central plank of the successful re-election campaign of Bill Beaumont that saw the ex-England captain win a new four-year term as World Rugby chairman in May after he defeated Argentina’s Agustin Pichot.
But it remains to be seen whether the review will alter a system where major ‘tier one’ rugby nations such as Europe’s Six Nations and the four Rugby Championship countries have three votes each, while others make do with two or one.
In addition to Robertson, the other two independent members of the working group are Peter Cosgrove, a former Governor General of Australia and Angela Ruggiero, an American former ice hockey player and Olympic gold medallist, who previously served on the International Olympic Committee.
But the working group also includes several senior rugby administrators including Beaumont himself and his deputy Bernard Laporte, the former France coach.
“In our manifesto, Bernard Laporte and I
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