Dan Carter and Jerry Collins posting on here :think Lets say im a lil bit sceptical. I did here some NZ commentators say Collins loved to mix it up in the gym with gloves on. Anyway I have a new love interest, move over Mundine Dan Carter has come to town :happy:happy:happy
Not interest in World Cup as the Rugby League semi's are hotting up at the moment....... BTW.... Why don't the RWC just seed the top 8 sides and play. Much easier then seeing All Blacks beat Portugal by 150pts atsch
Then the top tier nations will continue the further the gap between the 2nd and 3rd tier ones. Rugby is attempting to rival Soccer as a world game, no way they get close but I think they are realistic, If 2015 world cup is in Japan it will help the profile of the game immensely in Asia.
Get serious...........Rugby doesn't get close to soccer in Asia and never will.....BTW At least in Soccer the team ranked over 100 in the world (which Australia has been in the last couple of decades) can compete with the top sides to a degree...............In Rugby anything ranked above 10 in the world gets whacked by 50-100pts by the top 4 sides..... Now that can't be good for the game.
Exactly........except when Pakistan throw a match against sides like Ireland etc now that's not good for the game imagine.
What did I say?? "No way they get close" Its not comparable to soccer because 1 side can dominate another and barely win in soccer, and that is rarely the case in Rugby. Excluding nations wont build the game either, all its takes is a bad peformance from a top team and the ball to bounce the right way for a 2 tier side and it could revive the sport in any of the minnow nations. China and India are growing rapidly, their economic conditions are improving, so therefore less people will be malnourished and therefore more physically big people in the generations to come. Thats a 2 billion person market that Soccer has barely been able to tap, Rugby should have a go at least.