Legend's big legacy call for 2027 World Cup

Wallabies fable Phil Kearns says hosting the 2027 Rugby World Cup could unafraid the game's aboriginal successful Australia for a "long, agelong time."

Australia is successful the container spot to big the showpiece tourney aft World Rugby yesterday declared it arsenic the "preferred candidate" up of the United States.

Rugby Australia has been connected its knees and in April announced a "brutal" nonaccomplishment of $27.1 cardinal for 2020 arsenic COVID-19 wreaked havoc crossed the business.

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RWC bid enforcement manager Phil Kearns speaks to the media. (Getty)

Alarmingly, RA president Hamish McLennan revealed that the governing assemblage had adjacent considered reverting to amateur presumption arsenic the fiscal hits piled up.

But alternatively it looked to RWC 2027 arsenic the "light connected the hill" and claims that the tourney volition make $2.5 cardinal successful "direct and indirect expenditure to the economy."

"This perchance secures the aboriginal for rugby for a long, agelong clip successful this country," said Kearns, RA's bid enforcement director.

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Federal Minister for Sport Richard Colbeck, Rugby Australia president Hamish McLennan and erstwhile Wallaby Phil Kearns. (Getty)

"With the pathways we person with the Lions coming successful '25, the World Cup successful '27 and England arriving adjacent year, this is simply a large maturation accidental for rugby successful Australia."

RA volition present enactment successful an exclusive concern with World Rugby to further make the tourney model, up of a last assembly ballot successful May adjacent year.

Kearns was people thrilled with the advancement but cautioned that it wasn't rather crippled implicit yet.

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Phil Kearns speaks to the media astatine the Museum of Contemporary Art. (Getty)

"The past mates of years, a batch of enactment has gone into it," Kearns told 2GB's WWOS Radio.

"Last night's effect retired of the World Rugby assembly gathering is conscionable what we needed.

"We are successful the 75th infinitesimal of the lucifer mate, we person 5 minutes to spell and we are starring truthful we person a small spot of enactment to do.

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"We are beauteous assured we volition get it implicit the line."

Australia co-hosted the inaugural World Cup successful 1987 with New Zealand and besides staged the tourney successful 2003, erstwhile the Wallabies mislaid the last successful other clip to England.

It present seems apt that the United States volition big the World Cup for the archetypal clip successful 2031 aft entering "exclusive targeted dialogue" with World Rugby.

Michael Lynagh, Phil Kearns and Nick Farr-Jones aft winning the 1991 Rugby World Cup. (Getty)

"The caller Rugby World Cup exemplary volition spot World Rugby instrumentality much nonstop work for the transportation of the pinnacle events," the governing assemblage said.

The adjacent men's World Cup volition beryllium held successful France successful 2023.

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