It has been a long time coming, and it will be a long time until its benefits are felt, but rugby's administrators seem to have finally found a way to untie the Gordian Knot that has seen the game forever hopelessly biased toward its traditional powers.
On Tuesday, World Rugby proudly announced a series of radical changes that will increase the number of matches between traditional powerhouses and teams from countries where the game is still growing. The governing body hailed the move as the "most significant development in the sport since the game went professional."
That happened in 1995 but in the 28 years since, the biggest nations have become even more dominant, while paying endless lip service to "growing the game."