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Don't worry, you'll get us as well, and you'll lose a match you should have won against Argentina but then steal the win against us to go through as the 2nd seed, and avoid NZ through to the final.

Not as simple as that as well. Every European team gets a chance to qualify. A series of playoffs between winners of lower divisions means that the 2nd non-Georgia team plays in a one-off game against either the winner of the Next Division down or a very lucky further down team.

Is it not the team with the best record across this season and next WOB? They've moved to having a champion named every year rather than across every two years a lá the 6 Nations, but I was almost certain that they kept the home and away qualification system.

I missed you Shiggins

Sloppy sloppy stuff

Ryan was good when he was actually playing, but you can't call walking through the player taking the quick tap anything but idiocy and he 100% deserved the card.

Ads during play for Football? Think no one in their right mind will be watching that. It's distasteful enough when there's natural breaks for it like in AFL, let alone in the Rugbys.

Thought our scrum was impressive, but when Weeks is your smallest front rower and only 2 men behind you can't read too much into it.

Relevant https://vid.me/W1LA

I'll try and pull up the individual match day stats if necessary, but I'm 80ish% sure that from 3 tournaments and ~13 games he played 1 game at reserve loosehead and the rest of his games, including all his starts, were as a tighthead. All the talk was that he was the best tighthead you'd seen...

Go old school. First forwards and second backs against second forwards and first backs.

Technically we can make top 4 too, World Rugby did the maths. http://www.worldrugby.org/news/222319 But that'll require a Win at the Stade & a Calcutta Cup in the same season after so long without either, and minimum one of the 3 would have to be 15+ wins. We got lucky last time and got Samoa...

I "think" one more win plus Italy should enough for us to stay in the top 8, having not had time to play with the calculators.

Brumbies had 3 away games last year though didn't they? Evens it up a little.

Something else to be considered is the 3G, 4G and hybrid artificial pitches that are becoming more and more common in the NH. I've only noticed it myself in the last two seasons, mostly due to Glasgow announcing their own plans, but they've been resulting in general in pitches that produce...

Why move the 6 Nations? Thing basically sells out and has very high viewership year after year, along with being one of the top 3 (at worst) rugby tournaments in the world. By my mind, the Euros reckon If it ain't broke don't fix it, and Euro rugby isn't "broken".

Melbourne Rebels squad for the Brisbane Global Rugby Tens: Cruze Ah-Nau, Steve Cummins, Jack Debreczeni, Murray Douglas, Tom English, Colby Fainga'a, Jackson Garden-Bachop, James Hanson, Reece Hodge, Mitch Inman, Marika Koroibete*, Pat Leafa, Tyrel Lomax, Jack Maddocks, Amanaki Mafi, Ben Meehan...

5 years works fine for me as it guarantees you miss a World Cup Cycle and for the majority of Western and Tier 1 Nations, 5 years is what Joe Bloggs off the street typically meets or exceeds the required time to start the citizenship process. Chuck on the British Isles and Hong Kong conundrums...

Welsh. Caps, and particularly long ago caps don't mean much though.