Springboks move to Six Nations 否定するd by NZ Rugby
WELLINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A マスコミ 報告（する）／憶測 that South Africa are 熟視する／熟考するing a move away from southern 半球 rugby's SANZAAR 同盟 to join an 拡大するd Six Nations in 2024 have been 否定するd by New Zealand Rugby, with television 協定s in place until 2025.
Britain's Daily Mail newspaper 報告（する）／憶測d on Saturday that South Africa would join the 存在するing Six Nations countries and abandon 最高の Rugby and the Rugby 選手権 after the next World Cup in フラン in 2023.
The unsourced 報告（する）／憶測 had few 詳細（に述べる）s and did not take account of the fact South Africa had 調印するd a new broadcast 契約 to stay in SANZAAR until 2025, something New Zealand Rugby (NZR) 大統領 示す Robinson 確認するd on Sunday.
"Like us, they've 調印するd 協定s with their 放送者s through 2025 to be 伴う／関わるd with SANZAAR," Robinson told New Zealand's 無線で通信する Sport on Sunday.
"Our broadcast 取引，協定 ... is from 2021 to 2025. South Africa are in the same space. We're committed to the international calendar we have that we're working through in our 国内の and our cross-water 競争s.
"There will be 適切な時期s for them to review 確かな things within that but 全体にわたる they've got that かかわり合い."
Robinson 追加するd that 憶測 about the 再編成 of the southern 半球 game had been rife for a number of years, with South Africa in particular 報告（する）／憶測d as 存在 on the 瀬戸際 of joining European 競争s several times.
Fiji were also 報告（する）／憶測d earlier this month by British マスコミ to be 押し進めるing to joining the Six Nations.
"I think this is the third team now in the past month that there's been 報告（する）／憶測s out of the northern 半球 that are going to join the Six Nations," Robinson said.
"By my count they are up to nine nations at some time in the next few years which we all know is 簡単に not feasible."
Robinson 追加するd that South African Rugby had been 伴う／関わるd in 会談 over the last week about the f uture of 最高の Rugby and the Rugby 選手権, with a possible 拡大 to 含む Japan and 太平洋の Islands teams on the 協議事項.
"We're very committed to looking at 適切な時期s in those areas," said Robinson.
"We were talking about ways in which we can look for 現れるing nations to have more 適切な時期 to play in 競争s, be that in the Rugby 選手権 or in a 昇進／宣伝/relegation sort of system.
"We've been very 一貫した on the fact that it's the 権利 thing for rugby ーに関して／ーの点でs of growing it globally."
(報告（する）／憶測ing by Greg Stutchbury; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
