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<blockquote data-quote="Reiser99" data-source="post: 1146182" data-attributes="member: 72977"><p>For me the world cup is the biggest issue. T2 nations might get the odd win, but there are never going to be huge upsets in who wins a major tournament. Take football as an example. Greece won Euro 2002. Now they weren't a bad side, but definitely nobody thought they would win (150-1 at the beginning of the tournament). I just don't see anything like that happening in Rugby. Teams get scares or the occasional upset, but reality is it's the same teams competing for the ***le.</p><p></p><p>For me the best example of teams making progress is probably Ireland. Mid 90s Ireland were at the bottom of the table mostly. 2000s they crept up the table then won by the end of the decade. 2010s they won more and more until now they are no.1 in the world. However that has taken 20-30 years of development and whilst playing t1 rugby regularly. It's simple as everyone has said plenty of times. Until t2 teams like Georgia, Namibia regularly get to play the best teams they won't improve. Fans will switch off as they will flip between beating lower ranked teams consistently and losing to higher ranked teams consistently.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Reiser99, post: 1146182, member: 72977"] For me the world cup is the biggest issue. T2 nations might get the odd win, but there are never going to be huge upsets in who wins a major tournament. Take football as an example. Greece won Euro 2002. Now they weren't a bad side, but definitely nobody thought they would win (150-1 at the beginning of the tournament). I just don't see anything like that happening in Rugby. Teams get scares or the occasional upset, but reality is it's the same teams competing for the ***le. For me the best example of teams making progress is probably Ireland. Mid 90s Ireland were at the bottom of the table mostly. 2000s they crept up the table then won by the end of the decade. 2010s they won more and more until now they are no.1 in the world. However that has taken 20-30 years of development and whilst playing t1 rugby regularly. It's simple as everyone has said plenty of times. Until t2 teams like Georgia, Namibia regularly get to play the best teams they won't improve. Fans will switch off as they will flip between beating lower ranked teams consistently and losing to higher ranked teams consistently. [/QUOTE]
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