Rugby World Cup general discussion
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@mariner4life said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
Possible Unpopular Opinion
The tournament suffers as a spectacle by only having games on the weekend.
Agree. One of us or France should be playing again tonight, or possibly yesterday.
Squads of 33, use them.
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@MajorRage France v Uruguay is Thursday night Paris time, Friday morning NZ time.
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@Stargazer said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
I need evenings during the week to catch up with the games I couldn't watch live during the weekend. If you add games during the week, I simply don't have the time to watch the majority of them.
Add games? They would be shifted, not added.
That is some of the weirdest logic I've read on here for a while. You're glad there are no midweek games because you get time midweek to watch games you didnt have time to watch on weekends.
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The next two weeks do have Wednesday and Thursday night games Paris time then NZ plays Thursday night (Friday Morning NZ time) the week after that v Uruguay.
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@MajorRage said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
@mariner4life said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
Possible Unpopular Opinion
The tournament suffers as a spectacle by only having games on the weekend.
Agree. One of us or France should be playing again tonight, or possibly yesterday.
Squads of 33, use them.
It’s very stop start alrite. There is a two week break in there somewhere too right?
We need games every two days so Sexton ends up in the knackers yard.
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@NTA said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
May be premature
An Aussie mate messaged me saying Topou will play
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Tonga's Charles Piutau lays bare tier one and two differences: ‘No snacks and we wash our own kit’
Having switched allegiance from New Zealand, Piutau has noticed the gulf between rugby nations
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
Tonga's Charles Piutau lays bare tier one and two differences: ‘No snacks and we wash our own kit’
Having switched allegiance from New Zealand, Piutau has noticed the gulf between rugby nations
That's not a 'difference between Tier 1 and Tier 2' story, that's a 'World Rugby Fails Tier 2 nations' with inadequate resources at the most critical time
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whoever thought only games on weekends and bye weeks was a great idea for a tournament needs shooting.
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@mariner4life said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
whoever thought only games on weekends and bye weeks was a great idea for a tournament needs shooting.
That can only be addressed with more teams participating. The outrage from minnows having to backup within a short window ensured that we'd only have games on the weekend.
Four pools of six teams, with seeding done after the traditional EOY tours the year preceding.
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@antipodean said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
@mariner4life said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
whoever thought only games on weekends and bye weeks was a great idea for a tournament needs shooting.
That can only be addressed with more teams participating. The outrage from minnows having to backup within a short window ensured that we'd only have games on the weekend.
Four pools of six teams, with seeding done after the traditional EOY tours the year preceding.
No. That cannot "only" be addressed by tournament team numbers.
They 'fixed' the minnow outrage in 2019.
Where everyone got 1 short turnaround each.
Previously. 2003 to 2015, the short turnaround were overwhelmingly stacked against the minnows. Which was when the whining was occurring.
Although, it is true that a totally fair draw can only come with an expansion to 24 or 32.
However. The abysmal scheduling should not get a free pass just because they've rightly ditched the 03-15 scheduling bias, but chosen a more shitty 1999ish weekend weighting rather than just rehashing the hugely successful '19 template.
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@Rapido said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
@antipodean said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
@mariner4life said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
whoever thought only games on weekends and bye weeks was a great idea for a tournament needs shooting.
That can only be addressed with more teams participating. The outrage from minnows having to backup within a short window ensured that we'd only have games on the weekend.
Four pools of six teams, with seeding done after the traditional EOY tours the year preceding.
No. That cannot "only" be addressed by tournament team numbers.
They 'fixed' tjeminnow outrage in 2019.
Where everyone got 1 short turnaround each.
Well we don't know with certainty because of the abandoned matches. Would Namibia have finally secured a win against Canada for example?
I still think the simple solution is more teams, which in turn helps grow the sport too.
