They might not bother with the round of 16. A major recommendation from the latest concussion studies is to have players playing far fewer games. I only caught a bit of it on the radio but there seemed to be a fairly bleak study published today around rugby and dementia.
November tists donāt count.
16 going through would be a total cod. Youād have three teams from four of the six groups going through.
Think of it, youād basically be eliminating the four worst teams at this yearās World Cup, plus four potentially even worse teams, with some potentially shite teams getting into the last 16 to get hammered.
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Paulie asked JP what to do about it.
JP sent them to Spike.
The wondrous outcome is a competition organised as 4 groups of 6 with the top 2 going into quarter finals to make for death matches in every round. The bottom 4 will play off for relegation.
It will be box-office.
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Itās a load of shite. Itās then trying to figure out how to pay for 24 teams.
Iād personally for just 5 teams automatically getting through along with the next 6 playing in a wild card round to get to the last 8.
https://twitter.com/MalachyClerkin/status/1717087776062013741
Still need to keep working on those depth charges. Might try starting at out half.
This Rubby Nations Cup is going to leave a serious carbon footprint. Irresponsible stuff from the rubby powers that be in this day and age
Harsh on Libbok but his time will come. Not sure how Willie Le Roux still makes it but rassie has gone all experience and planning for rain with the 7-1 split. We can do it.
Poor Gerry is still hurting
A long week to cap a long two months as RWC final goes under the radar
The reminders remain constant. Worst of all was watching the All Blacks breeze through against Argentina last Friday in a semi-final sorely missing the Zombie Nation. Then there was their media schedule this week and imagining what might have been. Then, the Springboks wheeled out not one, but two Irish internationals in the week of a World Cup final ā both a first and a second!
Paris and the World Cup just arenāt the same without Ireland and, of course, the hosts. The travelling Irish media corps having become skeletal, there has been even less sense of this being World Cup final week.
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Scruff Thornley needs to be moved on.
Ah that is classic. Heās beyond irony.
Maybe itās just a tfk ballhop.
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This is no ball hop. Gerry is genuinely hurting here and just canāt move on. Iād say it was a tough conversation back in the day when his parents had to sit him down and have the chat about Santa Claus.
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Zombie nation 
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Heās in Paris, getting an all expenses paid trip to two of the great places, in world cup final week, the greatest city in the world laid out around him, and heās still crying two weeks later. ābut but but theyve two Irish ladsā. Escapes him that the āIrishā lads were actually poached South Africans etc etc.
I presume heās been drinking so much he has the overwhelming feeling of impending doom.
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Iām still sick myself.
We werenāt far away this time.
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Felix jones wasnāt poached ?
Interesting they start pollard. Be a fair effort for him to go 80 minutes given how unfit heās looked.
Could backfire on Rassie here.
Thereās a real sense from the corporate lads who had booked final tickets and have to now go with clients they donāt like that Saturdayās game is Hamlet without the prince.
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