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Rugby World Cup 2023
Seeding disaster for the hosts
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<blockquote data-quote="General Melchett" data-source="post: 1118417" data-attributes="member: 74895"><p>It's utter madness and World Rugby are entirely responsible. Yes it's not Japan's fault that they played less games due to COVID but it's not the European teams fault that Japan couldn't play more games. I personally think World Rugby did them a massive favour by locking in the seedings while they were 8th seed knowing full well they were going to drop out of the top 8. Maybe a farewell sweetener as the last host.</p><p></p><p>The draw for the Qatar football world cup was made 7 months before the tournament kicked off and so I don't accept that it needs to be made as early as it was because of logistics and sponsorship.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="General Melchett, post: 1118417, member: 74895"] It's utter madness and World Rugby are entirely responsible. Yes it's not Japan's fault that they played less games due to COVID but it's not the European teams fault that Japan couldn't play more games. I personally think World Rugby did them a massive favour by locking in the seedings while they were 8th seed knowing full well they were going to drop out of the top 8. Maybe a farewell sweetener as the last host. The draw for the Qatar football world cup was made 7 months before the tournament kicked off and so I don't accept that it needs to be made as early as it was because of logistics and sponsorship. [/QUOTE]
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