Team most likely to cause an upset?

[LittleGuy]

= Canada need more game time and respect. True.
I'd like to see Canadian switch the telly over to rugby a little more as opposed to ice hockey. But I don't see that.
If Canada wants to be a force in rugby, you'd have to sprinkle some of the money, respect, programming into rugby.
For now, you're obsessed with ice hockey. In Ireland, a lot of attention is given to traditional sports - hurling, and gelic football - even though they are amateur sports, there is a big passion for these games, but there is also a passion for rugby and soccer, and there are more young rugby players in Ireland than ever.

Canadian Football(and gridiron in general) are also major competitiors with rugby for money and resources in Canada, particularly at a high school and college level. Canada has one of the highest per capita participation rates in soccer as well, but many youth drop out of the game from the ages of 14-18, as well television audiences for soccer outside of the World Cup are generally pretty low and the CSA(Canadian Soccer Association) is one of the poorest run national sports organizations in the world.

I do think we are sending a stronger team then 2007 for sure, Canada is perhaps the biggest unknown in the whole tournament for a lot of the rugby public. Many of our players don't have overseas contracts due to the foreign player spots being limited, and not many outside of Canada follow the CRC or BC Premier league, so they have not seen our players in action.

 

[calculon]

Canadian Football(and gridiron in general) are also major competitiors with rugby for money and resources in Canada, particularly at a high school and college level. Canada has one of the highest per capita participation rates in soccer as well, but many youth drop out of the game from the ages of 14-18, as well television audiences for soccer outside of the World Cup are generally pretty low and the CSA(Canadian Soccer Association) is one of the poorest run national sports organizations in the world.

I do think we are sending a stronger team then 2007 for sure, Canada is perhaps the biggest unknown in the whole tournament for a lot of the rugby public. Many of our players don't have overseas contracts due to the foreign player spots being limited, and not many outside of Canada follow the CRC or BC Premier league, so they have not seen our players in action.

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[lucky number 7]

Ireland might win a game...

 

[@buck_mitchell]

I quite fancy Scotland EW at about 130-1. England seem to be on the slide and Scotland have beaten Argentina the last 3 times they've played them so they could easily top their group and play France in the QF's & who knows how France are going to play ?

 

[calculon]

Ireland might win a game...

might

I quite fancy Scotland EW at about 130-1. England seem to be on the slide and Scotland have beaten Argentina the last 3 times they've played them so they could easily top their group and play France in the QF's & who knows how France are going to play ?

Good call. I might take that bet too.

 

[Seaton]

I quite fancy Scotland EW at about 130-1. England seem to be on the slide and Scotland have beaten Argentina the last 3 times they've played them so they could easily top their group and play France in the QF's & who knows how France are going to play ?

The last two times I'm afraid, the tour last year got the two wins, previously the Argies beat us at Murrayfield.