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I’d say most of that is by design

Early days bud, Namibia had a full strength All Blacks at 10-11 just before HT remember

I was advocating it against my better judgement but yeah I agree

Same, I loaded up on a few Scots and Welshman that aren't the best players but I thought might get 2 runs, so I'm hanging out for an announcement on those fixtures.

That is probably a reasonable assessment considering. But I'll take that, we will win by more than that

Yeah I'm fucked in the back row stakes, I've got 1/4 playing and he's already played, although he's named to play again (Wainwright)at least. I'm not too bad elsewhere TBH.

I have a feeling they know exactly who they're going to pick for the quarter

That's true and maybe the answer is to reschedule if it can be done with a (say) minimum 4 day turnaround for both teams, if not then the game gets cancelled. Anyway, it's done now, I'm sure there is a reason why they haven't done it, but from an outsiders' perspective it looks very doable to...

As molman says it's not my job to assess the typhoon risk on a RWC in Japan, I have other things to do. Even if I did, what difference would that make? It's the lack of a contingency plan that irks me. They opted to host the tournament in relatively high risk period, so they were taking a big...

I think the pertinent point is that later would work super for SH teams (just another round of TRC), but not so great for NH teams. And the powers wouldn't cop that.

Well if they just pushed it out a month it would be in the 4th most likely and one of the least likely months for a typhoon to hit landfall, instead of the 2nd most likely and 4th most likely months (according to Strewth's graph above). Southern hemisphere teams are just preparing to embark on...

yes, play them later on Sunday or even on Monday. I know that means a shorter turnaround for the quarters for a team or two, but that's less unfair than a team missing out completely because there wasn't a plan B.

Yeah, I thought the idea of just flying the teams to another city had merit but it looks like it's going to hit the whole country. However, maybe they could have held the tournament not in the Typhoon season?

what a clusterfuck

It will be interesting to see if Owens gets cited, because that would essentially be WR (World Rugby) admitting that Garces and Skeen fucked up, and they’d then have to review their future involvements as they did with Gardner. As it stands at the moment WR (World Rugby) are the only people that can’t see that Ben Skeen...

Somehow 15 of those welsh blokes have to front up again on Sunday

No need to go to that extreme, just move across the dutch.

Reffing aside, this is epic!

Man they put the booot into skeen there!