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<blockquote data-quote="Umaga&#039;s Witness" data-source="post: 1053126" data-attributes="member: 65365"><p>The World Cup is nice and all, but it really has destroyed international rugby. It's got to the point where people care more about their teams development towards the next World Cup than they do about individual test matches. If I look back over the last 4 year cycle, the World Cup (and the games within it) to me were no more significant than some other events - ireland beating the all blacks twice (and unfortunately the first one was affected by the all blacks deciding to play a few crappy players to give them exposure and in the hope that they could develop, to be good players at the next World Cup. This ****** me off because I held our zero loss record against ireland higher than winning the World Cup), all blacks playing some exciting rugby, England's 18 game winning streak, fiji beating france, etc.</p><p></p><p>just look at the fans after any big non World Cup match. They don't care a lot about whether they win, they care more about how their team is developing. They're only able to enjoy rugby once every four years. And then most often they don't then either, because only one team wins the World Cup and every other team is disappointed. How sucky is that?</p><p></p><p>I think the World Cup is a great spectacle and so dint think we should get rid of it. But I think world rugby needs to work out how to make the games in between world cups more meaningful. Eg more toirs, but proper ones because the ones at the moment still aren't taken all that seriously. So add midweek games or games against provincial sides. Could they do something like the world cricket test championship (except the final should be best if three)?</p><p></p><p>sorry, a bit off topic, like any rant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umaga's Witness, post: 1053126, member: 65365"] The World Cup is nice and all, but it really has destroyed international rugby. It’s got to the point where people care more about their teams development towards the next World Cup than they do about individual test matches. If I look back over the last 4 year cycle, the World Cup (and the games within it) to me were no more significant than some other events - ireland beating the all blacks twice (and unfortunately the first one was affected by the all blacks deciding to play a few crappy players to give them exposure and in the hope that they could develop, to be good players at the next World Cup. This ****** me off because I held our zero loss record against ireland higher than winning the World Cup), all blacks playing some exciting rugby, England’s 18 game winning streak, fiji beating france, etc. just look at the fans after any big non World Cup match. They don’t care a lot about whether they win, they care more about how their team is developing. They’re only able to enjoy rugby once every four years. And then most often they don’t then either, because only one team wins the World Cup and every other team is disappointed. How sucky is that? I think the World Cup is a great spectacle and so dint think we should get rid of it. But I think world rugby needs to work out how to make the games in between world cups more meaningful. Eg more toirs, but proper ones because the ones at the moment still aren’t taken all that seriously. So add midweek games or games against provincial sides. Could they do something like the world cricket test championship (except the final should be best if three)? sorry, a bit off topic, like any rant. [/QUOTE]
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