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Rugby World Cup 2015
Some teams receiving far greater rest between games
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<blockquote data-quote="Tricia McMillan" data-source="post: 452889" data-attributes="member: 51138"><p>Don't mean to bump an old thread, but I had another thought about the short turnaround for smaller teams. While everyone's pointing to the fact that big teams who attract large crowds and television audiences get to play on the weekend, I thought about how some of these smaller teams aren't fully professional and aren't extremely well funded. Staying in the host country costs a lot of money, and the shorter turnarounds enable them to spend less time in the host country, thus spending less money, since they're generally not expected to reach the quarterfinals.</p><p></p><p>Not saying that justifies, say, making Namibia play 4 test matches in 16 days, but I just wanted to write this thought down somewhere before I forgot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tricia McMillan, post: 452889, member: 51138"] Don't mean to bump an old thread, but I had another thought about the short turnaround for smaller teams. While everyone's pointing to the fact that big teams who attract large crowds and television audiences get to play on the weekend, I thought about how some of these smaller teams aren't fully professional and aren't extremely well funded. Staying in the host country costs a lot of money, and the shorter turnarounds enable them to spend less time in the host country, thus spending less money, since they're generally not expected to reach the quarterfinals. Not saying that justifies, say, making Namibia play 4 test matches in 16 days, but I just wanted to write this thought down somewhere before I forgot. [/QUOTE]
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