D-Day looms for RWC 2023 bidders

[canefan]

@act-crusader said in D-Day looms for RWC 2023 bidders:

@dogmeat said in D-Day looms for RWC 2023 bidders:

As long as it isn't France I'm not fussed. Can make a valid argument for either of the other two but 16 years after 2007 is just too soon

What happened in 2007?

[Catogrande]

@pot-hale said in D-Day looms for RWC 2023 bidders:

@bovidae said in D-Day looms for RWC 2023 bidders:

@pot-hale

OK, so is the IRFU confident of the Eng, Scot and Welsh votes?

No. Wales could vote differently. Not sure about England.
Scotland, USA, Canada, NZ they’re confident about.

They need 21.

Good luck mate, I hope your boys get the gig. Also hope you do better than we did in our RWC

[Derm McCrum]

@catogrande said in D-Day looms for RWC 2023 bidders:

@pot-hale said in D-Day looms for RWC 2023 bidders:

@bovidae said in D-Day looms for RWC 2023 bidders:

@pot-hale

OK, so is the IRFU confident of the Eng, Scot and Welsh votes?

No. Wales could vote differently. Not sure about England.
Scotland, USA, Canada, NZ they’re confident about.

They need 21.

Good luck mate, I hope your boys get the gig. Also hope you do better than we did in our RWC

Cheers. We’ll know about recommendation in 20 minutes at 11am GMT.

[TeWaio]

9 mins before deadline, twitter story breaking:

Midi Olympique reporting World Rugby will back South Africa as 2023 World Cup hosts. Also say "Ireland came last in all criteria"

[TeWaio]

RTE now confirming it:

South Africa recommended as 2023 Rugby World Cup host by technical review group

[TeWaio]

I guess with all the soccer world cup stadia in place they always had the inside running, especially after the political powers that be recommended it

[canefan]

@tewaio said in D-Day looms for RWC 2023 bidders:

9 mins before deadline, twitter story breaking:

Midi Olympique reporting World Rugby will back South Africa as 2023 World Cup hosts. Also say "Ireland came last in all criteria"

I'd like to know what the criteria were

[Kruse]

@canefan

In descending order of importance, they were:
finance and tournament guarantees;
venues and host cities;
tournament infrastructure;
vision and concept,
tournament organisation and schedule.

I'm not a fan of the "order of importance".

[Derm McCrum]

SA announced by WR as the recommended hosts.

Congrats SA.

Very disappointed for Ireland. Bugger and shite.

[Kruse]

How the hell did South Africa put forward a "vision and concept" better than Ireland's "ah, it'll be a grand ol' craic, aye"

[canefan]

I figured that Ireland would have put on a similar cup to us. Guess we shouldn't hope to host another cup anytime soon

[Kruse]

@kruse said in D-Day looms for RWC 2023 bidders:

How the hell did South Africa put forward a "vision and concept" better than Ireland's "ah, it'll be a grand ol' craic, aye"

Turns out they didn't - and Ireland did NOT come last in all criteria, they just came last in the total score.
The report has the actual scores for each criteria, with weighting.
SA come last in "vision and hosting concept"

[Kruse]

[Kruse]

Good to know that money is 7 times more important than a well organised tournament.

[Tim]

@kruse They didn't use something that clichéd?

[Kruse]

@tim said in D-Day looms for RWC 2023 bidders:

@kruse They didn't use something that clichéd?

Just skimming through the report, it seems they paraphrased... "the ‘Irish welcome’"

[Derm McCrum]

Bollocks. Bugger. Shite. Fuck. Feck. Arse. Girls.

[Kruse]

While the South African "vision" is pretty much described as boring...

The vision, while not going above and beyond in creative
terms, is founded on achievability, ...

And the boring pricks managed to pretend innovation by shoehorning in the term "cloud-based", although they didn't think of mentioning "big-data".

[Billy Webb]

Nice that SA got the recommendation - but there is still a lot of water to flow under this bridge. I expect there will be a ton of back-room deals being done prior to the vote and i am giving SA at best a 50% chance of finally securing the deal.

[Kruse]

@pot-hale said in D-Day looms for RWC 2023 bidders:

Bollocks. Bugger. Shite. Fuck. Feck. Arse. Girls.

Should really have included that in the bid.
But yeah - feel for ya. Would have loved to have spent a month or so riding around Ireland watching rugby.