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<blockquote data-quote="die_mole" data-source="post: 843689" data-attributes="member: 73648"><p>So this obviously would never happen but I was thinking of ways to get more nations involved in top level rugby.</p><p></p><p>So expanding the world cup right now would be stupid *cough* FIFA *cough* since really only 9 teams have a chance to make the quarterfinals anyway. </p><p></p><p>*My idea is to have a knockout stage for all crap teams. It would be 16 teams involving all of those that didn't qualify for the quarter finals plus other teams that I will describe later. I know two tier 1 teams will be involved whatever it's gonna be Italy + an unlucky nation from the group of death (god this tournament is so predictable). Those countries could opt out of this against so either 6 or 4 spots would be available for other countries. Those spots would be filled up by tier two and three countries who didn't qualify for the major tournament. Two groups, 5 teams would be awesome but whatever, with whatever amount of teams required for the bracket to have 16 teams advancing.</p><p></p><p>Would give us **** nations something to play for at the world cup (although I will continue to root against the United States as long as Clever and Barrett get caps) and allow countries to get games against countries others than those they play ever single year. Besides, if Italy decides to participate their players may know what it's like to win something.</p><p></p><p>*Really tried hard to avoid starting three sentences in a row with "so"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="die_mole, post: 843689, member: 73648"] So this obviously would never happen but I was thinking of ways to get more nations involved in top level rugby. So expanding the world cup right now would be stupid *cough* FIFA *cough* since really only 9 teams have a chance to make the quarterfinals anyway. *My idea is to have a knockout stage for all crap teams. It would be 16 teams involving all of those that didn't qualify for the quarter finals plus other teams that I will describe later. I know two tier 1 teams will be involved whatever it's gonna be Italy + an unlucky nation from the group of death (god this tournament is so predictable). Those countries could opt out of this against so either 6 or 4 spots would be available for other countries. Those spots would be filled up by tier two and three countries who didn't qualify for the major tournament. Two groups, 5 teams would be awesome but whatever, with whatever amount of teams required for the bracket to have 16 teams advancing. Would give us **** nations something to play for at the world cup (although I will continue to root against the United States as long as Clever and Barrett get caps) and allow countries to get games against countries others than those they play ever single year. Besides, if Italy decides to participate their players may know what it's like to win something. *Really tried hard to avoid starting three sentences in a row with "so" [/QUOTE]
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