“One of the big challenges we have is that we do not have a professional calendar or fixture list post 2019,” Tew said. “We are all trying very hard to find a way around a whole lot of immovable objects that are currently in the rugby calendar, one of which is the length of club seasons. There is definitely a battleground that is being drawn about the preeminence of international rugby versus the fact there is a lot of private equity, particularly in the northern hemisphere, has gone into the club game. So there is a power struggle and we have to make sure we find a way of developing a partnership with those clubs that works for both.