NZRU slams Six Nations Unions over srapping ELVs

New Zealand Rugby Union chief executive Steve Tew has claimed the Six Nations’ block vote against the most controversial experimental law variation (ELV) was “ridiculous”.

Delegates from New Zealand and Australia have returned home from a high-level International Rugby Board conference in London frustrated at having failed to persuade the global game to adopt the so-called ’sanctions’ ELV.