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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce_ma gooshvili" data-source="post: 851560" data-attributes="member: 74121"><p>I'm not knocking Heaslip as he will have been glad to avoid Group C. But I think it's a bit of a smelly draw for Ireland and Scotland to get to a semi as:</p><p></p><p>i) a group is only as tough as the Band 3 side. Group A has the second toughest Band 3 side and they have home advantage. </p><p></p><p>ii) Group B is so painfully routine that SA and NZ can rest and have no stress for three of their pool games. They will be outrageously fresh in the QFs. Unless Italy undergo an amazing transformation in the next 18 months ago. </p><p></p><p>I'd much rather have been in Oz or NZ's positions if I was Ireland. Only England came off worse as a Band 1 the way I see it, given that the ambition of a Band 1 must be semis minimum.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce_ma gooshvili, post: 851560, member: 74121"] I'm not knocking Heaslip as he will have been glad to avoid Group C. But I think it's a bit of a smelly draw for Ireland and Scotland to get to a semi as: i) a group is only as tough as the Band 3 side. Group A has the second toughest Band 3 side and they have home advantage. ii) Group B is so painfully routine that SA and NZ can rest and have no stress for three of their pool games. They will be outrageously fresh in the QFs. Unless Italy undergo an amazing transformation in the next 18 months ago. I'd much rather have been in Oz or NZ's positions if I was Ireland. Only England came off worse as a Band 1 the way I see it, given that the ambition of a Band 1 must be semis minimum. [/QUOTE]
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