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<blockquote data-quote="Mrs. Peter Quinn" data-source="post: 1164020" data-attributes="member: 12190"><p>I agree with pretty much all of your post except I'd add there are other, bigger issues contributing to the entertainment issue.</p><p></p><p>One of them is clearly the player safety and cards issue. I honestly don't know what the answer is here but I think we all have a sense that it's ruining games. I'd be interested to see research data on collision reduction with the current tackle laws.</p><p></p><p>I think the draw should probably happen later, but I also think the problem isn't usually this obvious and hopefully won't be quite like this again. Whether it's 2 years, or 4 years before....it still shouldn't be enough time for teams at the very top to completely nosedive and be absolute garbage 4 years on.... I don't think we'll see many examples as dramatic as what happened with England, and Australia going forward</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Oh for sure, Argentina were a very good side with top players. But the way I see it, at a world cup you should expect to have to beat the best teams in successive games. It's about doing it and going again and again. For a northern hemisphere team like England I price in needing to beat the southern big three as it were. Which is what happened in 2019, albeit we also got lucky then and the France group stage game got cancelled. But there's usually some sort of assymetry in the draw I would suggest. </p><p>You guys' run in this time versus 2007 is night and day</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mrs. Peter Quinn, post: 1164020, member: 12190"] I agree with pretty much all of your post except I'd add there are other, bigger issues contributing to the entertainment issue. One of them is clearly the player safety and cards issue. I honestly don't know what the answer is here but I think we all have a sense that it's ruining games. I'd be interested to see research data on collision reduction with the current tackle laws. I think the draw should probably happen later, but I also think the problem isn't usually this obvious and hopefully won't be quite like this again. Whether it's 2 years, or 4 years before....it still shouldn't be enough time for teams at the very top to completely nosedive and be absolute garbage 4 years on.... I don't think we'll see many examples as dramatic as what happened with England, and Australia going forward Oh for sure, Argentina were a very good side with top players. But the way I see it, at a world cup you should expect to have to beat the best teams in successive games. It's about doing it and going again and again. For a northern hemisphere team like England I price in needing to beat the southern big three as it were. Which is what happened in 2019, albeit we also got lucky then and the France group stage game got cancelled. But there's usually some sort of assymetry in the draw I would suggest. You guys' run in this time versus 2007 is night and day [/QUOTE]
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