Rugby World Cup 2019 - Ireland shit the pot all over again

Sport
2527

Yet only 8 teams have won it and Brazil and Germany have won most WCs since they started playing with a proper football.

2528

New Zealand - registered rugby players approx 156,000 people

Ireland - registered rugby players approx 194,387 people

…and our population is slightly less than NZ

2529

Rugby is a truly global sport which was produced World Cup winners from Oceania, Africa and Europe.

Cricket is a truly global sport which has produced World Cup winners from the Caribbean/South America, Oceania, Europe and Asia.

Only countries from Western Europe or the Western Europe settled southern end of South America wins the soccer World Cup.

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2530

Are you trying to argue that soccer isn’t a global game? I wonder is there any country in the rugby world cup which doesn’t have more soccer players than rugby players. I strongly doubt it

2531

One African outlier doesn’t make a sport global

Is rugby the most played sport in any country in the world?

2532

pity @GeoffreyBoycott isnt around to see you posting, ODI world cups:smiley:

2533

It’s a global game but like rugby only a few countries have a realistic chance of winning a WC.

2534

Yes but only a few countries have a chance of winning a soccer world cup because it’s the most popular sport in a lot of very large and rich countries. Only a few countries have a chance of winning a rugby world cup because nobody plays it

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2535

I’m genuinely shocked at that. What’s your source?

2536

whats this?

2537

Apparently 194,387 people in Ireland play rugby and we can’t win a WC quarter final, even though only 8 or 9 countries have ever reached a quarter final.

I would say like soccer it has more to do with being shit at the sport.

2538

Wum

2539

Have I missed something here that’s been casually slipped into an otherwise mileau of rubby guff. Is there “any news” Julio?

2540

Not winning a quarter final is a mental block. We have reached 1 world cup quarter final in soccer, and we didn’t win a game in that tournament. We get to the quarter finals in most rugby world cups

2541

Poor oul Jerry was always sour about athletics having a poor profile. In fairness any fucker can run around a track, throw a spear or jump into a sandbox.

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2542

So do the other seven teams.

2543

Or cut off their dick, take hormones and race against women.

2544

+1, Athletics has its time and place; it’s called the Olympics. Nobody gives a shit about it outside of that.

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2545

ah that old clichéd question …“what’s your source?”

I leave you to do a bit of research for yourself on this occasion

(things are not always what they’d seem to be using “common sense”) :wink:

2546

Driving down to the South East this morning and missed most of the rugby. Only saw the last 10 minutes of the France game. That was good. Were the other games any use?