RWC 2023
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If you can get tickets to the games you want to see through the ballot I would do the tour independently as you will have more flexibility to visit where you want between games. That is what my friends and I did in 2007, and it should be cheaper.
The TGV/train network is great to travel between cities, and you can organise your own accommodation.
Tours like Williment Travel will take a lot of the hassle away so it depends on what you want from the experience. I'll never forget seeing many from their tour group walking around Paris after the QF in their adidas tour kit looking like they wanted to be somewhere else. We all ended up at a bar watching the NPC final live.
It's much better to be incognito.
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It was good to see us keeping our powder dry for this one last night. The pricks aren't going to know what hit them.
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@Crazy-Horse said in France 2023:
It was good to see us keeping our powder dry for this one last night. The pricks aren't going to know what hit them.
I see France winning this and us getting knocked out by Ireland.
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@Bones said in France 2023:
@Crazy-Horse said in France 2023:
It was good to see us keeping our powder dry for this one last night. The pricks aren't going to know what hit them.
I see France winning this and us getting knocked out by Ireland.
Downvote!!!
Reckon I'll be there in person for this one
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@voodoo said in France 2023:
@Bones said in France 2023:
@Crazy-Horse said in France 2023:
It was good to see us keeping our powder dry for this one last night. The pricks aren't going to know what hit them.
I see France winning this and us getting knocked out by Ireland.
Downvote!!!
Reckon I'll be there in person for this one
Yep me too. Only 20 minutes from a Eurostar station!
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@nzzp said in France 2023:
@Godder said in France 2023:
Must be time for the TSF tour '23.
that could be good fun. Wonder how many pubs we'd be banned from
@Godder @nzzp Reckon I could be up for that if you could stomach hanging about with a Saffer.
I know @Snowy is boycotting travelling to RWC games anymore, but I'm sure I can tempt him out of retirement if he feels his liver is strong enough for one last hurrah with me
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@Billy-Webb said in France 2023:
if he feels his liver is strong enough for one last hurrah with me
That's the problem, weeks in France with good (and cheap) wine my liver may well decide it is a final hurrah.
That and the fact that the ABs will lose if I go.It is tempting though. Hmmm.
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@Billy-Webb said in France 2023:
@nzzp said in France 2023:
@Godder said in France 2023:
Must be time for the TSF tour '23.
that could be good fun. Wonder how many pubs we'd be banned from
@Godder @nzzp Reckon I could be up for that if you could stomach hanging about with a Saffer.
I know @Snowy is boycotting travelling to RWC games anymore, but I'm sure I can tempt him out of retirement if he feels his liver is strong enough for one last hurrah with meI'm quite tempted ... will be taking time out to calm down after this Cup though, and korero with the father in law. He's an old school rugby dude, would be funny as shit to be on tour with. Also tempted to drag one or both boys along ... well, for festival rugby group stages. After that it's all pressure, pain and heartbreak -- kind of like working
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@Billy-Webb said in France 2023:
@Godder @nzzp Reckon I could be up for that if you could stomach hanging about with a Saffer.
Add another - I'll be over there the week before playing anyway.
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@booboo said in France 2023:
When do tickets go on sale?
Mrs Boo reckons we're going.
Will make sure we're there for the pool matches ... and see how flexible we can be during the knockouts ...
Collective thoughts on tours, touring parties, independent travel etc appreciated.
(Yes I'm deflecting, I don't want to dwell on the aftermath.)
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So they're doing the draw even earlier this time. What the actual fuck? Three years early??
World Rugby have just put added pressure on teams to improve their results in 2020
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Hurts to agree but, yeah, soccer do it 6 months before
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so they do the draw 3 years out, even though many of the teams who will be playing have not yet been determined?
Instead of making double rankings points during the RWC, make it double in the 18 months leading in and do the draw 6 months out.
Muppets
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@KiwiMurph said in RWC 2023 draw, this November!:
Has there been any thought given that perhaps World Rugby are purposefully doing this early to create chaos so that pool play is exciting with multiple big teams in the same pool?
It'll be for logistics right? So teams can plan ahead.
I'd prefer the seeding being done int he year before the world cup so you get the best competition, but I guess the World Cup is not about that?!?
