@rugbyAU do you also believe it’s “the mums” that are the problem?
I think that disliking a post that targets misogyny is a bit of a red flag…
What’s your issue with women?
I reckon the CEO of Australian rugby should go even further, and tell everyone the Wallabies are so bad that nobody should waste their time or money on them…
Two things -
1. The tournament needed to expand
2. The pool stage needed to be shortened
They could've had four pools of six with the top four from each pool going through to the round of 16, but then you've still got a bloated pool stage.
When you add more teams you're always going to...
That’s it for the Western Melbourne Group…
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/liquidators-move-on-company-run-by-afl-star-pendlebury-s-former-manager-20251210-p5nmli.html
Christy was probably upset the SMH didn’t publish a story he could plagiarise, again… and so had to resort to this flailing manufactured outrage for some click bait which doesn’t present a single genuinely weighted piece of criticism.
It reads like it was smashed out on the keyboard after more...
In regards to that post from 2021 you're replying to, the host cities and venues were announced earlier in the year...
https://www.rugbyworldcup.com/2027/en/host-cities
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...
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...