RWC Draw
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@taniwharugby said in RWC Draw:
@hydro11 although Boks have dropped a long way since 2015, we can only hope they will be better by 2019
Nah ... am happy for them to be shit ....
I think there is a good possibility for them to have woken up by then. There are some very good players showing out individually in Super Rugby but the Boks selectors need to take some punts and get a fresh look going this year to get these guys some experience. It may not win them a WC this time around but will get them back on track to get an experienced side in the future.
They are in a better position than Oz who will have to still rely on the likes of Genia and Beale and Coper as there is simply no one else. -
Agreed. The pathways in South Africa are still unearthing talent.
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@antipodean said in RWC Draw:
Agreed. The pathways in South Africa are still unearthing talent.
unfortunately alot of those pathways seem to lead to a quick stop in the Bok jersey and onto Europe because of how inept SARU is.
I wonder if the way SA can return as a genuine and consistent force in WOrld Rugby is if thier INternational game was in Europe?
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I wouldn't select OS players if I was SARU. They've got enough people at home that the depth shouldn't be a concern. Let the economic refugees flee to Europe to get paid. All the unions are restricting the amount of foreigners in the squads anyway. It's a problem that will slowly be minimised.
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I tried to figure out who could potentially slot into the repechage slot.
It looks as though Europe 1 will be the better of Romania, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Russia or Germany. Second place gets beaten by Samoa who will also go to pool A (Play Off Winner), the loser goes into the repechage tournament.
They are joined by.
- Winner of Tahiti vs South Korea/Hong Kong
- Loser of Canada vs Uraguay playoff.
- Kenya by virtue of finishing second in this years Africa Gold Cup.
If there is any confusion please refer to this simple chart
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Am I correct that the Rugby Europe Championship qualifier is based on the combined results of the 2017 and 2018 tournaments (I think I am)? If so, Romania is in the box seat to qualify, with Spain their main threat and most likely to go to the repercharge (and I don't think Portugal is in the hunt).
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Am I correct that the Rugby Europe Championship qualifier is based on the combined results of the 2017 and 2018 tournaments (I think I am)? If so, Romania is in the box seat to qualify, with Spain their main threat and most likely to go to the repercharge (and I don't think Portugal is in the hunt).
That graphic posted by @rotated is spot on!
European teams' path to the 2019 RWC:
- Automatically qualified: England, France, Georgia, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales
- One European qualifier: The highest-ranked team from the Rugby Europe Championship (excluding Georgia) will qualify – Europe 1
- One Europe/Oceania play-off qualifier: The third place team from the Pacific Nations Cup will play a home and away play-off with the winner of a qualification match between the second -ranked team in the Rugby Europe Championship (excluding Georgia) and another European team with the winner on aggregate qualifying for RWC 2019. The loser will qualify for the repechage tournament – Play-off 1
- One repechage qualifier: The repechage tournament will feature four teams playing in a round-robin format with the winners qualifying for RWC 2019 – Repechage tournament
According to this graphic and the info on this page, the winner of the combined 2017 (1st leg) and 2018 (2nd leg) of the Rugby Europe Championship (= level 1 below the 6 Nations) will qualify as Europe 1.
This was the ranking after the first leg:
For argument's sake, assume Romania win the 2nd leg as well and qualify as Europe 1; and Spain finishes second, then Spain will have to play a qualification match against the winner of Portugal v Czech Republic. So Portugal is definitely still in the hunt, but they need to beat the Czechs first.
Portugal qualified for this match as the winner of the 2017 European Trophy (= level 2 below the 6 Nations). The Czech Republic, winner of the 2017 Conference 1 (= level 3 below the 6 Nations), qualified for this match via a path that is so complicated that I'm not going to attempt to describe it.The winner of that last European qualification match has to play home and away play-off matches against the third placed Pacific Nations Cup team, Samoa. Whoever wins the aggregate of these two matches, qualifies as Play-off 1 and will end up in Pool A. The loser of this match will go through to the Repechage tournament.
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@stargazer said in RWC Draw:
The Czech Republic, winner of the 2017 Conference 1 (= level 3 below the 6 Nations), qualified for this match via a path that is so complicated that I'm not going to attempt to describe it.
An outrageously poor attitude!
So results in the Europe Championship vs Georgia aren't counted. That means Romania is less in the box seat than I thought.
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@stargazer said in RWC Draw:
The Czech Republic, winner of the 2017 Conference 1 (= level 3 below the 6 Nations), qualified for this match via a path that is so complicated that I'm not going to attempt to describe it.
An outrageously poor attitude!
So results in the Europe Championship vs Georgia aren't counted. That means Romania is less in the box seat than I thought.
This was the table including Georgia. Romania ended the year at the top of the table, because they had beaten Georgia 8 to 7.
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@stargazer Yeah but that was in Bucharest. Georgia will smash the Romanians at Dimitri Kirakashyashmashsmashvili Stadium in Tbilisi.
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RWC 2019 draw is at 7.30pm tomorrow (3.30pm Japan time).
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