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<blockquote data-quote="Leinster Fan" data-source="post: 978461" data-attributes="member: 76349"><p>I'll be completely honest, I didn't enjoy it as much as the last few. That's not to say it wasn't a great tournament, but from a personal standpoint, Ireland were terrible, I didn't get to watch nearly as much as I'd hoped, and overall I never got the buzz I got from it that I got from previous tournaments. It was an enjoyable way to spend the weekend mornings for a few months, but very little more than that for me, if I'm honest I enjoy the average Six Nations much more than I enjoyed that. The fact that it didn't get as much traction in Ireland (both media and in terms of the general public) as a lot of the other ones didn't help either. I even got over this quarter final loss much quicker than the last few.</p><p></p><p>But that's all purely personal, overall it was a good world cup. Japan were probably the biggest positive, but Uruguay were great as well. NZ not winning makes the sport as a whole look way better. SA is a great story, and Kolisi lifting the world cup was a lovely moment. I thought the quality of rugby wasn't amazing without being particularly poor. </p><p></p><p>My main disappointment (other than Ireland) was that the knockouts on the whole were fairly one-sided, other than the Wales games (which were far from classics) it was clear who had it won with a fair bit to go in all the games. </p><p></p><p>Overall a great tournament in terms of growing the sport, the minnows were less bad than they've historically been. Probably not the best world cup ever but a good one nonetheless.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leinster Fan, post: 978461, member: 76349"] I'll be completely honest, I didn't enjoy it as much as the last few. That's not to say it wasn't a great tournament, but from a personal standpoint, Ireland were terrible, I didn't get to watch nearly as much as I'd hoped, and overall I never got the buzz I got from it that I got from previous tournaments. It was an enjoyable way to spend the weekend mornings for a few months, but very little more than that for me, if I'm honest I enjoy the average Six Nations much more than I enjoyed that. The fact that it didn't get as much traction in Ireland (both media and in terms of the general public) as a lot of the other ones didn't help either. I even got over this quarter final loss much quicker than the last few. But that's all purely personal, overall it was a good world cup. Japan were probably the biggest positive, but Uruguay were great as well. NZ not winning makes the sport as a whole look way better. SA is a great story, and Kolisi lifting the world cup was a lovely moment. I thought the quality of rugby wasn't amazing without being particularly poor. My main disappointment (other than Ireland) was that the knockouts on the whole were fairly one-sided, other than the Wales games (which were far from classics) it was clear who had it won with a fair bit to go in all the games. Overall a great tournament in terms of growing the sport, the minnows were less bad than they've historically been. Probably not the best world cup ever but a good one nonetheless. [/QUOTE]
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