Larger squads and more rest allowed for 2023 WC

[Leinster Fan]

World Rugby allow larger squads and more rest at 2023 World Cup

Teams have been guaranteed at least a five-day break between pool matches, which means that tournament will run one week longer than in Japan.

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World rugby moving to 33 man squads and minimum 5 day rest periods.

Definitely two sensible decisions that are arguably overdue, in the current era less than 5 days was a joke, especially with the way it was biased against smaller teams. 33 player squads is a good thing too, even if it just likely means an extra scrumhalf and loosehead for most teams. Still 31 was silly because one or two players carrying a knock meant you couldn't train 15 on 15.

 

[Which Tyler]

Squad size should have been increased the moment bench sizes were increased, so long overdue.
No team should ever had a 5 day turnaround anyway - strangely, tier 1 nations always miraculously escaped it. That one's been overdue since 1987!

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

World Rugby allow larger squads and more rest at 2023 World Cup

Teams have been guaranteed at least a five-day break between pool matches, which means that tournament will run one week longer than in Japan.

www.the42.ie

World rugby moving to 33 man squads and minimum 5 day rest periods.

Definitely two sensible decisions that are arguably overdue, in the current era less than 5 days was a joke, especially with the way it was biased against smaller teams. 33 player squads is a good thing too, even if it just likely means an extra scrumhalf and loosehead for most teams. Still 31 was silly because one or two players carrying a knock meant you couldn't train 15 on 15.

What is this madness you speak of?

 

[Kiwiwomble]

have to say im not a fan, from the NZ perspective its just more people that get excluded from the NPC and rested from the start of super rugby

Would rather that "squad" was split into two, primary and wider training and you can only move from one to the other through injury, having such large full squads just means the tier 1 teams just field a largely third string team against he minnows, so we end up having more and more players with one or two caps



OR

winning when fatigued is part of winning the big show, if we have these large squad then we dont need the long wait between games, these events seem to drag out longer and longer now and there for are harder to schedule

This is all outside of actually injury, obviously have to look after that

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

have to say im not a fan, from the NZ perspective its just more people that get excluded from the NPC and rested from the start of super rugby

Would rather that "squad" was split into two, primary and wider training and you can only move from one to the other through injury, having such large full squads just means the tier 1 teams just field a largely third string team against he minnows, so we end up having more and more players with one or two caps



OR

winning when fatigued is part of winning the big show, if we have these large squad then we dont need the long wait between games, these events seem to drag out longer and longer now and there for are harder to schedule

This is all outside of actually injury, obviously have to look after that

It's 2 more players like it's not a 50 man squad? There are so many specialist positions and literally more players in a match day team than there used to be so it only makes sense

 

[TRF_heineken]

It's 2 more players like it's not a 50 man squad? There are so many specialist positions and literally more players in a match day team than there used to be so it only makes sense

And the possibility is that those 2 players are in any case touring with the squad, but just not as a player...