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<blockquote data-quote="Brigantine" data-source="post: 903530" data-attributes="member: 73940"><p>For Romania, I think it's unlikely but also entirely realistic. The fact that fully half of the teams in the competition made mistakes, and that it went on for two complete seasons before the topic was even raised by Rugby Europe or World Rugby, and the fact that the preliminary judgement leads to some absurd outcomes, make a good (IMO) case that placing the blame 100% on the teams for every single error is not consistent with proportionality of punishment (as you put it)...</p><p></p><p>For Spain, any outcome that doesn't eliminate Spain basically does nothing at all, and that won't be politically acceptable, so I agree that them being saved is not realistic.</p><p></p><p>But I'm trying to be consistent. The Cook Islands have zero chance of qualifying to the final 23, but they aren't technically eliminated yet. Until the lawyers have all their i's dotted and t's crossed, Spain is in the same category as the Cook Islands in that respect.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I must have missed something there. What's the story? Do you have a link?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brigantine, post: 903530, member: 73940"] For Romania, I think it's unlikely but also entirely realistic. The fact that fully half of the teams in the competition made mistakes, and that it went on for two complete seasons before the topic was even raised by Rugby Europe or World Rugby, and the fact that the preliminary judgement leads to some absurd outcomes, make a good (IMO) case that placing the blame 100% on the teams for every single error is not consistent with proportionality of punishment (as you put it)... For Spain, any outcome that doesn't eliminate Spain basically does nothing at all, and that won't be politically acceptable, so I agree that them being saved is not realistic. But I'm trying to be consistent. The Cook Islands have zero chance of qualifying to the final 23, but they aren't technically eliminated yet. Until the lawyers have all their i's dotted and t's crossed, Spain is in the same category as the Cook Islands in that respect. I must have missed something there. What's the story? Do you have a link? [/QUOTE]
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