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<blockquote data-quote="BigTen" data-source="post: 124140"><p>The way that the IRB sets up the groups is a bit ... well ... dodgy.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>It always seems that the same teams play each other.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>There are loads of other ways that they could do it.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>I think that if they had a ranking system that evaluated all of the teams before the world cup and just seeded the top four teams and then everybody else was distributed into the groups with a random draw. That way it would be possible to truely have a real group of death with say (New Zealand, England, Ireland, Argentina and Italy) and that would open up some of the groups for some minor nations to go through to the quarters. This would also mean that games outside of the world cup would mean something as every team would want to get into that top four seeded group. </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>Alternatively the IRB, in addition to the top four, could create two other seeded pots just to make sure that no group contained just top nations and another group had one top-four rated side and then four of the worse remaining sides.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>So many other options and the IRB just goes by the boring results from the last world cup. Yawn!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BigTen, post: 124140"] The way that the IRB sets up the groups is a bit ... well ... dodgy. It always seems that the same teams play each other. There are loads of other ways that they could do it. I think that if they had a ranking system that evaluated all of the teams before the world cup and just seeded the top four teams and then everybody else was distributed into the groups with a random draw. That way it would be possible to truely have a real group of death with say (New Zealand, England, Ireland, Argentina and Italy) and that would open up some of the groups for some minor nations to go through to the quarters. This would also mean that games outside of the world cup would mean something as every team would want to get into that top four seeded group. Alternatively the IRB, in addition to the top four, could create two other seeded pots just to make sure that no group contained just top nations and another group had one top-four rated side and then four of the worse remaining sides. So many other options and the IRB just goes by the boring results from the last world cup. Yawn! [/QUOTE]
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