The All Blacks person been astatine the forefront of rugby's attempts to marque an imprint successful a notoriously pugnacious sports market.
Ireland memorably bushed the All Blacks for the archetypal clip erstwhile the teams met successful beforehand of a capableness 60,000-strong assemblage astatine Chicago's Soldier Field successful 2016, with a 2025 rematch proving a akin commercialized success.
New Zealand person besides staged matches against the United States - a 104-14 triumph successful beforehand of astir 40,000 fans successful Washington, external - and Fiji - a 47-5 triumph earlier 33,217 successful San Diego - successful the state implicit the past decade
However Gilpin believes that the past of the Six Nations and its quality to link with expatriate fans successful the United States could beryllium a utile instrumentality to ace America further.
"This isn't a unrecorded treatment of an Italy vs Ireland game, but wherefore we usage that arsenic an example?" helium added.
"You've got 2 fantastic fanbases successful the US of Irish and Italian fans
"If you could instrumentality a Six Nations crippled to the close place, to a Boston oregon to a New York, wherever there's a batch of those fanbases, you tin decidedly thrust the economics.
"Now, you're going to person Irish fans and Italian fans successful those respective location countries saying, 'Hang connected a minute, you know, we privation to spot our state play?'
"The counter-argument to that [is] it's inactive Irish and Italian fans getting the accidental to ticker their team, truthful they're conscionable not the ones who unrecorded successful Ireland and Italy connected this occasion. But that's a balancing portion we've got to enactment through."
Wales played their location matches astatine London's Wembley Stadium during the 1998 and 1999 Six Nations portion the Principality Stadium was being built, but specified a long-haul venue power would beryllium unprecedented successful the tournament's 143-year history.
While World Rugby could enactment a stateside Six Nations game, the determination would prevarication with the competing teams, each of whom would beryllium alert of the consternation that would travel with transplanting a fixture thousands of miles away.
The docket for the 2027 editions of some the men's and women's tournaments person already been set.
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