RWC 2023
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@machpants said in RWC 2023 draw:
@booboo said in RWC 2023 draw:
@machpants said in RWC 2023 draw:
Interestingly, current top 4 ranked teams, which I think is correct, although maybe not in that order, are all on the same side of the draw. 2 of those teams won't make it to the semis...
1 South Africa 90.61
2 France 88.88 (+0.33)
3 New Zealand 88.75
4 Ireland 88.22 (+0.13)Regardless of pool matches? Do the quarters stay within 2 pools?
Yeah winner A plays 2nd B, and vice versa. NZ France in A, SA Ireland in B. It's different from what went before, I think.
Thanks.
Prefer they mixed the QFs between pools but it is what it is.
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@booboo It is extremely unusual to do that, if matches are played in a close geographical area.
England could not have a better draw - quite possibly with Fiji and Australia in quarters and semis if they scrape past Japan. Poor old France might not even make semis. If NZ progresses, they only have to play Ireland/France and South Africa to make final.
Utterly irresponsible draw made by World Rugby
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@arhs said in RWC 2023 draw:
@booboo It is extremely unusual to do that, if matches are played in a close geographical area.
England could not have a better draw - quite possibly with Fiji and Australia in quarters and semis if they scrape past Japan. Poor old France might not even make semis. If NZ progresses, they only have to play Ireland/France and South Africa to make final.
Utterly irresponsible draw made by World Rugby
It's because they do it three fucking years before the cup, unbelievable
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@stargazer said in RWC 2023 draw:
After Spain, now also Georgia has qualified for the RWC 2023. They're in pool C with Wales, Australia, Fiji and the winner of the final qualification tournament.
Wales, Australia, Fiji, Georgia. Same 4 teams as 2019 meet in pool play in 2023…
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@billy-tell said in RWC 2023 draw:
@stargazer said in RWC 2023 draw:
After Spain, now also Georgia has qualified for the RWC 2023. They're in pool C with Wales, Australia, Fiji and the winner of the final qualification tournament.
Wales, Australia, Fiji, Georgia. Same 4 teams as 2019 meet in pool play in 2023…
Nantes Again 😳🥲
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Just feels like Groundhog Day doesn't it? I remain amazed that WR are still too incompetent to seed a year out of the tournament.
TBH apart from the ability to ride the coattails of diplomatic hobnobbing, I really don't care about the RWC anymore. By 2019 I was hoping the All Blacks would do a threepeat so every other country would divert their energy to Making Tests Great Again.
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@mikethesnow said in RWC 2023 draw:
@billy-tell said in RWC 2023 draw:
@stargazer said in RWC 2023 draw:
After Spain, now also Georgia has qualified for the RWC 2023. They're in pool C with Wales, Australia, Fiji and the winner of the final qualification tournament.
Wales, Australia, Fiji, Georgia. Same 4 teams as 2019 meet in pool play in 2023…
Nantes Again 😳🥲
Ahh fuck Nantes... have story thereabouts which I'll share if I remember when sober...
Summary is I didn't get laid ...
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@booboo I have a nantes story. Was on way from London to Nantes for AB test but driver forgot the paperwork and we had to return home. AB fullbacks dad was in our party organised by London NZ rfc.. . Horrible! Buck did not enjoy Nantes either if I recall right.
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Who gives a shit who's favourite? I used to like Crowley. What a dick.
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@bones I've never forgotten '91
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@mariner4life I forgot it around the end of 91
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@bones said in RWC 2023 draw:
Who gives a shit who's favourite? I used to like Crowley. What a dick.
Ex ABs who move to the Northern Hemisphere become real dicks about the current ABs. Case in point Fitzy and Zinny.
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@bones said in RWC 2023 draw:
Who gives a shit who's favourite? I used to like Crowley. What a dick.
Thanks for your astonishing insight Kieran. France you say?
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@antipodean to be fair I said to the boys in my kiwi chat a couple of weeks ago that France are the best team to watch right now and they took the piss out of me.
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@bones said in RWC 2023 draw:
Who gives a shit who's favourite? I used to like Crowley. What a dick.
Suspect the person whose outdated here is Crowley. Does anybody not put France as favourites?
Although having said that, most on here are 40+ now ... It's fair to say that I probably fell into that trap a bit when I was in my early 20's.
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@majorrage said in RWC 2023 draw:
@bones said in RWC 2023 draw:
Who gives a shit who's favourite? I used to like Crowley. What a dick.
Suspect the person whose outdated here is Crowley. Does anybody not put France as favourites?
Although having said that, most on here are 40+ now ... It's fair to say that I probably fell into that trap a bit when I was in my early 20's.
Fuck no, I'd been living in the UK dealing with the ABs fucking up every RWC since 87, there is no way I was putting them as anything but an outside chance
