2019 Rugby World Cup
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This is a beautiful rugby story: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/rugby-world-cup-2019-wales-13899926
How many of us have strolled into a rugby club in some distant land with nought in our pockets and no plans but to pick up a game or two only to get absorbed into the fabric of a club?
As a 15 year old Morne du Plessis dropped by to visit my coach Springbok wing Andy van der Watt. Our whole team went round to Andy’s house to have a beer with the great man who would shortly go on to manage the 95 winning team. And the two of them made us all promise to keep playing after we left school because of what rugby would do for us.
One or two of us took their wise advice to heart. I never played any higher than club first grade, but rugby has left me with close friends in SA, Botswana, across Canada, Wales, the UK and Hong Kong to say nothing of all the lunatic Kiwis, aussies, Welshmen, Frenchmen, Uruguayan, PAcific Islanders and yanks who like me were wandering through the rugby world.
One of the great joys of the RWC is randomly bumping into former clubmates and opponents.
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@Smuts said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
This is a beautiful rugby story: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/rugby-world-cup-2019-wales-13899926
How many of us have strolled into a rugby club in some distant land with nought in our pockets and no plans but to pick up a game or two only to get absorbed into the fabric of a club?
As a 15 year old Morne du Plessis dropped by to visit my coach Springbok wing Andy van der Watt. Our whole team went round to Andy’s house to have a beer with the great man who would shortly go on to manage the 95 winning team. And the two of them made us all promise to keep playing after we left school because of what rugby would do for us.
One or two of us took their wise advice to heart. I never played any higher than club first grade, but rugby has left me with close friends in SA, Botswana, across Canada, Wales, the UK and Hong Kong to say nothing of all the lunatic Kiwis, aussies, Welshmen, Frenchmen, Uruguayan, PAcific Islanders and yanks who like me were wandering through the rugby world.
One of the great joys of the RWC is randomly bumping into former clubmates and opponents.
Brilliant
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@Smuts said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Snowy @mariner4life just pace yourself mate, you’ll be alright.
yeah, because i am sooooo good at that....
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@Stargazer said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
I hadn't thought about this before. Not only spots in the Quarter-Finals are at stake.
For those that won't make it past the pool stages, automatic qualification for the 2023 RWC is on the line. Getting that third spot in the pools is important.
pardon my repeated ignorance, but do the top 3 in each pool automatically qualify for the next tournament?
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@mariner4life Yup, specificially mentioned by a lot of the minnow teams as their goal for this RWC
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@Machpants said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@mariner4life Yup, specificially mentioned by a lot of the minnow teams as their goal for this RWC
that is, quite frankly, ridiculous
Cut the number of automatic qualifiers right down, say finalists and the host. Make everyone else qualify, and bang, there is your little team v big team games between cups.
Never happen though, because the big unions are too entrenched in their current set ups. And the Clubs won't allow it.
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Just no. The 3rd place incentive massively improved the pool stages.
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@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Just no. The 3rd place incentive massively improved the pool stages.
excuse me?
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@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Just no. The 3rd place incentive massively improved the pool stages.
excuse me?
You’re excused.
Take Fiji vs Georgia kicking off shortly. Game has more meaning as both can realistically get 3rd spot and automatic qualification. It was a great move by what was the IRB.
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@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Just no. The 3rd place incentive massively improved the pool stages.
excuse me?
You’re excused.
Take Fiji vs Georgia kicking off shortly. Game has more meaning as both can realistically get 3rd spot and automatic qualification. It was a great move by what was the IRB.
firstly, it's kind of patronising to think that these nations wouldn't both go flat out to win anyway
Also, Georgia are not out of the running for a Qtr Final spot. So they have a heap to play for.
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@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Just no. The 3rd place incentive massively improved the pool stages.
excuse me?
You’re excused.
Take Fiji vs Georgia kicking off shortly. Game has more meaning as both can realistically get 3rd spot and automatic qualification. It was a great move by what was the IRB.
firstly, it's kind of patronising to think that these nations wouldn't both go flat out to win anyway
Also, Georgia are not out of the running for a Qtr Final spot. So they have a heap to play for.
We agree to disagree. The 3rd place incentive was an inspired move.
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@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Just no. The 3rd place incentive massively improved the pool stages.
excuse me?
You’re excused.
Take Fiji vs Georgia kicking off shortly. Game has more meaning as both can realistically get 3rd spot and automatic qualification. It was a great move by what was the IRB.
firstly, it's kind of patronising to think that these nations wouldn't both go flat out to win anyway
Also, Georgia are not out of the running for a Qtr Final spot. So they have a heap to play for.
We agree to disagree. The 3rd place incentive was an inspired move.
just no
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@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Just no. The 3rd place incentive massively improved the pool stages.
excuse me?
You’re excused.
Take Fiji vs Georgia kicking off shortly. Game has more meaning as both can realistically get 3rd spot and automatic qualification. It was a great move by what was the IRB.
firstly, it's kind of patronising to think that these nations wouldn't both go flat out to win anyway
Also, Georgia are not out of the running for a Qtr Final spot. So they have a heap to play for.
We agree to disagree. The 3rd place incentive was an inspired move.
just no
So you agree then that we agree to disagree?
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@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Just no. The 3rd place incentive massively improved the pool stages.
excuse me?
You’re excused.
Take Fiji vs Georgia kicking off shortly. Game has more meaning as both can realistically get 3rd spot and automatic qualification. It was a great move by what was the IRB.
firstly, it's kind of patronising to think that these nations wouldn't both go flat out to win anyway
Also, Georgia are not out of the running for a Qtr Final spot. So they have a heap to play for.
We agree to disagree. The 3rd place incentive was an inspired move.
just no
So you agree then that we agree to disagree?
I'm sure Scotland, Italy, and Argentina will be totally satisfied with that automatic qualification, and without it they wouldn't have tried quite as hard.
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@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Just no. The 3rd place incentive massively improved the pool stages.
excuse me?
You’re excused.
Take Fiji vs Georgia kicking off shortly. Game has more meaning as both can realistically get 3rd spot and automatic qualification. It was a great move by what was the IRB.
firstly, it's kind of patronising to think that these nations wouldn't both go flat out to win anyway
Also, Georgia are not out of the running for a Qtr Final spot. So they have a heap to play for.
We agree to disagree. The 3rd place incentive was an inspired move.
just no
So you agree then that we agree to disagree?
and further more, this is the Fern, there is no "agree to disagree"
there is only "pointlessly bicker until something else shiny comes along to distract us"
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