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[RWC2019][Pool C] Round 4 - England vs. France (12/10/2019) *MATCH CANCELLED DUE TO BAD WEATHER*
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<blockquote data-quote="Vieux Talonneur" data-source="post: 966214" data-attributes="member: 73144"><p>Just for the integrity of the competition you'd have thought they'd have found a way to play it somewhere, somehow. Even a small stadium with little or no crowd would be better than this.The odds are that we'd have beaten Fra and so the knock out line up and fixtures aren't affected, but that was in no way guaranteed, particularly as there was uncertainty around the strength of team each was planning to put out. Unsatisfactory.</p><p></p><p>Does it tarnish the winners? Ita v NZ has gone too, so 2 of the favourites and Fra have an extra week off. If any of those win then there's a little bit of an asterisk against them. Squad depth and resilience is all part of it and they won't have been tested in quite the same way as the others. Their QF opponents probably have particular grounds for irritation, no one with an extra game in their legs will fancy taking on a well rested NZ or Eng.</p><p></p><p>Does it tarnish the tournament? Well yes. This wasn't a freakish one of those things, but a known risk. They rolled the dice that it wouldn't happen and lost. With NZ v Ita also gone so that's 2 out of 48 matches lost with the possibility of more on Sunday. At a push you can argue that a draw might be an OK assumption for Eng v Fra, but on no planet can you argue that for Ita v NZ although that ultimately doesn't affect anything.</p><p></p><p>And what would happen if something like this strikes during the knock out phase? You can't have 0-0 there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vieux Talonneur, post: 966214, member: 73144"] Just for the integrity of the competition you’d have thought they’d have found a way to play it somewhere, somehow. Even a small stadium with little or no crowd would be better than this.The odds are that we’d have beaten Fra and so the knock out line up and fixtures aren’t affected, but that was in no way guaranteed, particularly as there was uncertainty around the strength of team each was planning to put out. Unsatisfactory. Does it tarnish the winners? Ita v NZ has gone too, so 2 of the favourites and Fra have an extra week off. If any of those win then there’s a little bit of an asterisk against them. Squad depth and resilience is all part of it and they won’t have been tested in quite the same way as the others. Their QF opponents probably have particular grounds for irritation, no one with an extra game in their legs will fancy taking on a well rested NZ or Eng. Does it tarnish the tournament? Well yes. This wasn’t a freakish one of those things, but a known risk. They rolled the dice that it wouldn’t happen and lost. With NZ v Ita also gone so that’s 2 out of 48 matches lost with the possibility of more on Sunday. At a push you can argue that a draw might be an OK assumption for Eng v Fra, but on no planet can you argue that for Ita v NZ although that ultimately doesn’t affect anything. And what would happen if something like this strikes during the knock out phase? You can’t have 0-0 there. [/QUOTE]
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