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<blockquote data-quote="nickdnz" data-source="post: 710109" data-attributes="member: 38640">It&#039;s funny but people use New Zealand&#039;s success record in the RWC as a reason why it&#039;s harder than other championships. It&#039;s funny because Australia have won 28% of rugby world cups they have entered, South Africa have won 40%. Compare this to Rugby Championships where Australia and South Africa have won 15% of all Rugby Championships each. So it has literally been harder for them to win in a competition that is on every year, than one that is on every four. In total there have been 19 Rugby Championships and 7 World Cups. Both Australia and South Africa have only won one additional Rugby Championship than World Cup, solely because there is no easy run. Technically speaking, France lost 3/7 of their Rugby World Cup matches - yet they were if a RWC standing is to be believed - the second best team in the world..Even for New Zealand which generally dominate the Rugby Championship (and the IRB place in #1), our winning percentage per game is considerably lower in the Rugby Championship than the Rugby World Cup. The knock-out nature of the World Cup makes it arguably more difficult for the best team to win, but on a pure match by match basis the Rugby Championship is considerably harder.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nickdnz, post: 710109, member: 38640"] It's funny but people use New Zealand's success record in the RWC as a reason why it's harder than other championships. It's funny because Australia have won 28% of rugby world cups they have entered, South Africa have won 40%. Compare this to Rugby Championships where Australia and South Africa have won 15% of all Rugby Championships each. So it has literally been harder for them to win in a competition that is on every year, than one that is on every four. In total there have been 19 Rugby Championships and 7 World Cups. Both Australia and South Africa have only won one additional Rugby Championship than World Cup, solely because there is no easy run. Technically speaking, France lost 3/7 of their Rugby World Cup matches - yet they were if a RWC standing is to be believed - the second best team in the world.. Even for New Zealand which generally dominate the Rugby Championship (and the IRB place in #1), our winning percentage per game is considerably lower in the Rugby Championship than the Rugby World Cup. The knock-out nature of the World Cup makes it arguably more difficult for the [I]best [/I]team to win, but on a pure match by match basis the Rugby Championship is considerably harder. [/QUOTE]

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