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Published 10:16 12 May 2016 BST
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"If it was that easy, then everyone would have thought of it. "You have got tournaments that are played in the traditional time of year, the Six Nations in February and March. For me, personally, it would be around the June, July time. "That would be the area that you could probably look at without tearing everything up. The calendar is a challenge but it is one that I think everybody realises [it needs to be sorted] now because 2019 is looming rapidly."Beaumont is not expecting the moon and stars immediately but says such proposals will be discussed at a World Rugby council meeting in November. The next step may see Six Nations organisers pressed to move the tournament to March and April. The posturing has begun. We can't wait for flowing, expansive Six Nations rugby played out on bone dry pitches in Dublin, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Paris, London and Rome in 2021.

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