BOD asked to sign NDA over rebel R360 proposals that want to revolutionise rugby
It plans to launch next year and O'Driscoll said: "Mike Tindall asked me to sign an NDA about a year ago to find out more about it before it came out, and I just actually never did. "And so I don't know the pitch from their side and so I'm just kind of reading what everyone else has read rather than knowing from within.
"But it's not gone away, which many of these things have. We'll have to wait and see. I've seen Tindall a bit and he feels as though there's massive scope in it." Brian O'Driscoll and Lynne Cantwell have teamed up to celebrate Defender as Principal Partner for the Women's Rugby World Cup 2025
O'Driscoll is sceptical about whether there is a market for R360 and yet points out that the project hasn't faded away. "You hear the different noise and it's just this hasn't gone away, and there's apparently deep pockets," said the former Ireland great."It's just trying to take a leap around how does this work - how do you create an environment that's not just about paying the top people the top money? How do you get support? How do you get interest levels?"There will be huge scepticism until it's tried, but there's all sorts of NDAs apparently at play, and ex-England players have verbally agreed and so on. But it's all 'he said, she said' at the moment. It's just maybe it's to do with my capacity to see that change, but it just feels like there's lots of elements that are pulling against it.
"I don't know whether clubs will want their international players doing that - it takes away from the club scene here, but it also relieves some of the pressure for the national set-up. It's really hard to know."
Brian O'Driscoll and Lynne Cantwell have teamed up to celebrate Defender as Principal Partner for the Women's Rugby World Cup 2025
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