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<blockquote data-quote="Rugby Renegade" data-source="post: 897261" data-attributes="member: 77564"><p>So after having viewed this forum as a guest from South Africa for 2 months, this event has pushed me to finally take the 2 minutes required to join, and give my 2 cents on the matter. Having followed the qualifying results, and looking at the relative strengths of the teams, this is why this whole scenario sounds fishy from a South African point of view:</p><p></p><p>So let's take the incident, and substitute it for a more relateable competition, ie. Six Natoions, and let's substitute Spain and Romania for two of the top sides in action this weekend; let;s use England and Ireland in this example.</p><p></p><p>Now looking at Belgium in particular, they have spent 4 seasons (not consecutively I might add), in the Six Nations B, with one solitary victory against a German side with their own issues. Their losses this year against the 3 other sides in the competition read: 47-0 vs Georgia, 48-7 vs Russia, 62-12 vs Romania. Now if we had to compare them to a team from the Six Nations proper (who has also only won one game in the past 4 seasons) on relative strength in the scenario, it would be Italy (no offence to any team).</p><p></p><p>Now let's say the scenario this past weekend was different, and Ireland was playing Italy to win the Six Nations this weekend, and if they lost, England would take the ***le. Now let's say you had an English referee, with two English touch judges, and given the recent results and performances of Italy, and Italy having a solitary victory over Ireland in the past 12 years (which according to World Rugby's report on the game, this was Belgium's first victory over Spain in 12 years); an Italian win over Ireland in their biggest game of the year, with questionable calls by an English ref, handing England the ***le, would have caused a much greater scene in the news than what is currently happening.</p><p></p><p>So to summarize, a team much more superior on paper, in their biggest game for 20 years, all of a sudden choking against opposition that have been dispatched of with ease by all the other teams equal to them in the competition in controversial circumstances just doesn't sound right.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rugby Renegade, post: 897261, member: 77564"] So after having viewed this forum as a guest from South Africa for 2 months, this event has pushed me to finally take the 2 minutes required to join, and give my 2 cents on the matter. Having followed the qualifying results, and looking at the relative strengths of the teams, this is why this whole scenario sounds fishy from a South African point of view: So let's take the incident, and substitute it for a more relateable competition, ie. Six Natoions, and let's substitute Spain and Romania for two of the top sides in action this weekend; let;s use England and Ireland in this example. Now looking at Belgium in particular, they have spent 4 seasons (not consecutively I might add), in the Six Nations B, with one solitary victory against a German side with their own issues. Their losses this year against the 3 other sides in the competition read: 47-0 vs Georgia, 48-7 vs Russia, 62-12 vs Romania. Now if we had to compare them to a team from the Six Nations proper (who has also only won one game in the past 4 seasons) on relative strength in the scenario, it would be Italy (no offence to any team). Now let's say the scenario this past weekend was different, and Ireland was playing Italy to win the Six Nations this weekend, and if they lost, England would take the ***le. Now let's say you had an English referee, with two English touch judges, and given the recent results and performances of Italy, and Italy having a solitary victory over Ireland in the past 12 years (which according to World Rugby's report on the game, this was Belgium's first victory over Spain in 12 years); an Italian win over Ireland in their biggest game of the year, with questionable calls by an English ref, handing England the ***le, would have caused a much greater scene in the news than what is currently happening. So to summarize, a team much more superior on paper, in their biggest game for 20 years, all of a sudden choking against opposition that have been dispatched of with ease by all the other teams equal to them in the competition in controversial circumstances just doesn't sound right. [/QUOTE]
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