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The General RWC 2023 draw discussion thread
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<blockquote data-quote="Herman the German" data-source="post: 1159892" data-attributes="member: 81610"><p>After all in an ideal draw the best 8 teams in the world would advance to quarters and the best 4 to semis (viewed from before quarters). We got 8 teams from Top 10 advancing, regarding the matchup there were playing No1 / No4, No 2 / No3, No6 / No 10 and No7 / No 8. So statistically every pool winner got "rewarded" with a lower ranked team. After all you'll have to beat a Top 10 side in the quarters, there's nothing else to expect. </p><p></p><p>And when one views the current Top10 of rugby as a wider Tier 1 (in this case including Fiji), it's obvious that there'll be two groups with three teams from Top10 (in this case B and C). The thing that was not perfect though, was that 1 / 2 / 5 and 3 / 4 (rankings before the group) were in the same group. Still a balanced group stage (Ireland, Scotland and Australia / SA, Argentinia and Wales / France and Fiji / NZ and England) could still provide similar quarters than we have. It's just top tier in rugby being close by (which also makes games from quarters onward so tense).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Herman the German, post: 1159892, member: 81610"] After all in an ideal draw the best 8 teams in the world would advance to quarters and the best 4 to semis (viewed from before quarters). We got 8 teams from Top 10 advancing, regarding the matchup there were playing No1 / No4, No 2 / No3, No6 / No 10 and No7 / No 8. So statistically every pool winner got "rewarded" with a lower ranked team. After all you'll have to beat a Top 10 side in the quarters, there's nothing else to expect. And when one views the current Top10 of rugby as a wider Tier 1 (in this case including Fiji), it's obvious that there'll be two groups with three teams from Top10 (in this case B and C). The thing that was not perfect though, was that 1 / 2 / 5 and 3 / 4 (rankings before the group) were in the same group. Still a balanced group stage (Ireland, Scotland and Australia / SA, Argentinia and Wales / France and Fiji / NZ and England) could still provide similar quarters than we have. It's just top tier in rugby being close by (which also makes games from quarters onward so tense). [/QUOTE]
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