RWC Draw

[Rapido]

POOL OF DEEEEAAAATTHH!! for England, France, Argentina.

[Sneakdefreak]

England in another "pool of death"....

Japan will happy with their pool, gives them the best chance.

[Gunner]

So pool c will be dubbed pool of death no doubt.

One tough pool game for us, the rest will be a walk.

Italy, geez we always seem to get those muppets.

You could say the following are almost a lock for quarter finals:

Ireland
ABs
SA

The other spaces out of
Japan/Scotland
England/France/Argentina (x2)
Australia/Wales/Oceania (Probably Samoa) (x2)

Edit; Pool D might not be so clear cut as I thought at first glance.

[mimic]

whats the playoff draw like

[Chris B.]

Good draw for us - probably the best of the top 4 seeds. One tough game against the Jaapies and another solid opponent in Italy. Would have been nice to get, say, Canada rather than Africa 1 (Kenya? Namibia?).

Pleased we avoided the Group of Death hype (and danger).

[Kruse]

So, plugging in the play-off spots just according to current rankings (most are fairly clear-cut... Samoa/Tonga could easily be swapped)...
Pool A:
Ireland, Scotland, Japan, Romania, Samoa

Pool B:
New Zealand, South Africa, Italy, Namibia, Spain

Pool
England, France, Argentina, USA, Tonga

Pool D
Australia, Wales, Georgia, Fiji, Uruguay

[Gunner]

@Kruse no Canada?
An oversight, surely?

[akan004]

@mimic said in RWC draw + project players:

whats the playoff draw like

Based on the last wc, it was winner A v 2nd B, and Winner B v 2nd A, same with C and D.

Haven't had time to look at the semis. So it looks like we will be playing Scotland in the quarters.

[Tim]

@Kruse said in RWC draw + project players:

So, plugging in the play-off spots just according to current rankings (most are fairly clear-cut... Samoa/Tonga could easily be swapped)...
Pool A:
Ireland, Scotland, Japan, Romania, Samoa

Pool B:
New Zealand, South Africa, Italy, Namibia, Spain

Pool
England, France, Argentina, USA, Tonga

Pool D
Australia, Wales, Georgia, Fiji, Uruguay

England vs. New Zealand final then?

[Kruse]

@Gunner said in RWC draw + project players:

@Kruse no Canada?
An oversight, surely?

Nope - USA and Uruguay both ranked above Canada for the Americas spots... and Spain/Samoa for the Play-off/Repechage spots

[Bones]

@Gunner said in RWC draw + project players:

Italy, geez we always seem to get those muppets.

They mentioned we've faced them 6 times in RWC's. Not sure where they got that figure though since there's only been 5 RWC's.

[Kruse]

@Bones said in RWC draw + project players:

only been 5 RWC's.

???

[Gunner]

@Bones said in RWC draw + project players:

@Gunner said in RWC draw + project players:

Italy, geez we always seem to get those muppets.

They mentioned we've faced them 6 times in RWC's. Not sure where they got that figure though since there's only been 5 RWC's.

Whatever you're smoking, can I have some...?

What happened to the missing 3?

[Kruse]

@Kruse said in RWC draw + project players:

@Bones said in RWC draw + project players:

only been 5 RWC's.

???

Ah - stupid fucking Kruse. I get it now.
My excuse for being so fucking slow: hungover.

[Gunner]

@Kruse said in RWC draw + project players:

@Kruse said in RWC draw + project players:

@Bones said in RWC draw + project players:

only been 5 RWC's.

???

Ah - stupid fucking Kruse. I get it now.
My excuse for being so fucking slow: hungover.

Least you have an excuse.

I don't, and still don't get it.....

[Bones]

@Gunner For some reason 99, 03 and 07 were skipped and no RWC's exist for those years. We probably would've won those too, so IRB have a lot to answer for.

[MiketheSnow]

So Australia, Fiji and Uruguay two WCs in a row for us

Should have enough to finish second at worst, possibility of knocking Australia off and finishing top not out of the realms.

Even with England's resurgance it could be two early exits in a row

And Japan has a great opportunity to reach the QF for the first time

[mimic]

@akan004 said in RWC draw + project players:

@mimic said in RWC draw + project players:

whats the playoff draw like

Based on the last wc, it was winner A v 2nd B, and Winner B v 2nd A, same with C and D.

Haven't had time to look at the semis. So it looks like we will be playing Scotland in the quarters.

Yes you are right.
Looking at the past 3 RWCs, the semis are
winner of Bs game v winner of c's game
winner of As game v winner of D's game

So if the ABs and England win their pools (and their respective QFs), they will play in the Semis

[Crucial]

@akan004 said in RWC draw + project players:

@mimic said in RWC draw + project players:

whats the playoff draw like

Based on the last wc, it was winner A v 2nd B, and Winner B v 2nd A, same with C and D.

Haven't had time to look at the semis. So it looks like we will be playing Scotland in the quarters.

Quarters in 2015

1 Winner B v Second A
2 Winner C v Second D

3 Winner D v Second C
4 Winner A v Second B

Semis

Winner 1 v Winner 2
Winner 3 v Winner 4

So initial estimates would be

1 NZ v Scotland
2 England v Wales

3 Aus v France/Arg
4 Ireland v SA

Semis

NZ v Eng
Aus/Fr/ARG v Ire/SA

So a AB v Eng game could well be in the semi rather than the final

[MiketheSnow]

I'm going

NZ v Japan
France v Wales

Australia v Argentina
Ireland v South Africa

NZ v Wales
Australia v Ireland