Six Nations bosses are contemplating a radical scheduling change which might have a “Tremendous Saturday” happen each weekend of the lads’s Championship.
Because it stands, two video games every spherical happen on a Saturday with one match on a Sunday or, sometimes, a Friday night time.
The one time all three matches happen on a Saturday is for the ultimate spherical of the event.
Nonetheless, it is understood talks are underneath option to scrap Sunday matches and have each recreation staggered by a Saturday.
Directors really feel a transfer to have extra matches on Saturdays could be welcomed by each broadcasters and followers.
Within the 2024 Championship, the seven most-watched video games all occurred on a Saturday, adopted by the Friday night time opener between France and Eire in eighth.
The three matches with the bottom tv audiences – Wales in opposition to France in Cardiff, Eire at dwelling to Italy and France internet hosting Italy – all occurred on a Sunday.
Friday night time video games have been launched in 2009 with Wales internet hosting France in Cardiff, whereas the 2024 Championship kicked off on a Friday with France taking part in Eire in Marseille.
France are scheduled to host Wales within the opening match of the 2025 event on Friday, 31 January (20:15 BST).
Solely Wales and France have hosted on a Friday due to varied logistical points, whereas Sunday afternoon matches are largely unpopular with travelling supporters.
These conversations have thus far solely utilized to the lads’s Championship, with the ladies’s event working in a standalone window in March and April and with a unique broadcast deal.
