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RWC 2027 Australia

Dctarget

Dctarget

Jason Little (69)
Strewthcobber said:
There's some excellent conspiracy throeries about a rigged draw going around social media if you're into that sort of stuff!

Brett Robinson looking directly into the jar and plucking England out on command. That sort of stuff
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As in, he rigged it for England? They have the easiest run.
 
Dctarget

Dctarget

Jason Little (69)
Similarly to 2023, this should be a pretty open RWC.

Beyond us winning the entire thing without conceding a point, I'd love Arg to get up over Ireland then England (not outrageous) and France to win against SA (also very possible). An Arg v France final would be novel.
 
JRugby2

JRugby2

Colin Windon (37)
Strewthcobber said:
There's some excellent conspiracy throeries about a rigged draw going around social media if you're into that sort of stuff!

Brett Robinson looking directly into the jar and plucking England out on command. That sort of stuff
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I am.

Between this and the t20 WC draw conspiracies around India and Pakistan being draw in the same pool - it's been a good few weeks in comment sections.
 
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Alex Sharpe

Alex Sharpe

Fred Wood (13)
I don't really rate how the new structure has shaped the pools. All six of the pools have two teams that will clearly progress and two teams that clearly will not. The only game of relevance to the tournament will be between the top two teams, and even that will just be to determine who plays who in the round of 16.

Could potentially see teams keeping their powder pretty dry until knockout stages.
 
Slim 293

Slim 293

George Smith (75)
It's a massive improvement from the previous RWC format which was painfully drawn out too long when most of the results were wrapped up in the initial two weeks, and the round of 16 now provides some additional knock out matches for teams to potentially reach the quarters that in the past may not have made it out of the pool stage.
 
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WoodysRFC

Jimmy Flynn (14)
Dctarget said:
hmm I think England, on current form (so anything can change in two years) are probably in the top 3 hardest teams. We'll know a lot more after this 6N though. I'd rather face them later in the comp than QFs but still prefer the half of the draw we're on.

I'd prefer to be Ireland or Argentina I think. But they face England anyway.
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They're only getting better and IMO possibly best coaching team in WR (World Rugby) (outside of SA).
 
BDA

BDA

Jim Lenehan (48)
I don't hate the wallabies draw honestly. If we cant beat the likes on England in the quarters we don't deserve to win anyway. Worst case scenario probably would have been drawing NZ or SA in the quarters.
 
Omar Comin'

Omar Comin'

Peter Fenwicke (45)
Alex Sharpe said:
I don't really rate how the new structure has shaped the pools. All six of the pools have two teams that will clearly progress and two teams that clearly will not. The only game of relevance to the tournament will be between the top two teams, and even that will just be to determine who plays who in the round of 16.

Could potentially see teams keeping their powder pretty dry until knockout stages.
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I think it's worth it for the extra knockout round instead of another round of pool games, and to remove the scheduling problem of having an odd number of teams in each group (so no more games between a team on a 4-5 day turnaround and another who's had 7+)

That said in Pools B, C, E and F there is definitely potential upsets for 2nd place. Fiji lost to Portugal in the last world cup, they could lose to Spain in this one. Georgia will be extremely motivated against Italy, that could easily be an upset. A full strength and well prepared Samoa will be very hard to beat for Japan and potentially even France, and same for Tonga at full strength against the current Welsh team.

Pool A and D seem a little more straight forward, especially our pool as I can't see Chile beating us without something crazy happening. Uruguay and Portugal on a good day would have a better shot against Scotland, but either would be one of the great upsets.
 
Slim 293

Slim 293

George Smith (75)
Omar Comin' said:
I think it's worth it for the extra knockout round instead of another round of pool games, and to remove the scheduling problem of having an odd number of teams in each group (so no more games between a team on a 4-5 day turnaround and another who's had 7+)
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I believe they removed the short turnarounds for everyone in the last RWC so the games were limited to the weekends which meant the pool stage was waaaaay too drawn out and not enough content throughout the week to keep engaged.

And then when teams were ruled out of the finals after week 2, and there was another month or so to go for the pool stage, because you had the bye round for the odd numbers, it was just faaaaaarked.

The new format, granted they fixture the pool stages so there's not a week between all matches, will be a massive improvement.
 
LeCheese

LeCheese

Tony Shaw (54)
Super Hooper said:
Is Castore the new Wallabies supplier? According RWC advert
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That is the assumption, yes - but nothing is official thus far.

Disappointing if so. A lot of bad press regarding the quality of Castore gear over the years, particularly regarding the merch / fan gear. They're a dominant player in team kits across all sports these days though, so the price must be right.
 
Rog_the_outsidecenter1964

Rog_the_outsidecenter1964

Stan Wickham (3)
LeCheese said:
That is the assumption, yes - but nothing is official thus far.

Disappointing if so. A lot of bad press regarding the quality of Castore gear over the years, particularly regarding the merch / fan gear. They're a dominant player in team kits across all sports these days though, so the price must be right.
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