The arguments from players and administrators are well rehearsed. The former talk of a season not being too long necessarily, but having too much crammed into it.
Grant any professional player one wish and it would be to have a longer off-season. That's essentially what they mean when they talk about creating a global season - they want the calendar shuffled, not ripped up - so that it becomes possible to have a 12-16 week break to rehabilitate, recover and condition.
On the other side of the fence, administrators say they'd love to fix this, but it's all just too hard. They, supposedly, had a genuine crack at solving the problem in 2007 when, it seemed, that everyone in the world who had even the most remote connection to the game was locked in a room and told to find a solution.
Predictably, days of talking in circles led to a global season being put in the too-hard box on the basis there were too many commercial deals locked into the existing calendar. And largely because the Northern Hemisphere weren't going to ever consider shifting the Six Nations.
So now players talk about how they would love to see change - as Kieran Read did.
"I think that would be great for rugby and for players," he said when asked about a global season.
"It would be a shorter season or one that is more aligned with the North. It is going to create better spectacle and players will be fresh and they will play better.
"It is hard to see it happening in the near future but it is something to keep looking for and to keep fighting for."
And that's the intriguing thing - the season isn't unified, but the players are. This is one aspect of the game that players from Dublin to Dunedin all agree upon - they want change. For how much longer they can be brushed off with lame excuses about it all being ever so hard to fix, is questionable.
The players are rugby's greatest asset. No players, no game and the power sits with them and not the executives. Sponsors can threaten to pull their investment or reduce their commitment if they don't like any structural changes to the season, but players can pull their labour and such a proposition hasn't been ruled out.
New chairman of England's player association, Christian Day, said to the Rugby Paper: "We've looked at American sport where player power is huge and we're not looking to get to that level. That said, if it reaches a point where it feels like rugby players are not being looked after, we may rise up and you could lose your major asset."
The debate has become the most tired and tiring part of the rugby season - a source of fatigue in its own right.
