The All Blacks could face the Six Nations championship winner under a new structure for international rugby, according to reports from the Daily Mail.
It's set to be discussed at a meeting in Los Angeles next week where plans are advanced for a proposed new World Rugby League which would see the winners of the Rugby Championship southern hemisphere competition play the Six Nations European champions annually to decide a world champion.
The All Blacks have won five of the last six Rugby Championship crowns, and New Zealand Rugby has made no secret it favours the World League concept, believing it would provide much-needed financial relief.
"World Rugby see a concept that would essentially reduce the Six Nations to the European League for a global tournament that concludes with the crowning of a world champion every year as a way of redistributing the wealth between the Northern and Southern Hemisphere countries, with the financial difficulties being endured by New Zealand, Australia and South Africa well documented," the Daily Mail reported today.
NZ Rugby will meet with their tier nation one counterparts and Six Nations officials in Los Angeles.