honestly united Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 19 minutes ago, Salvo Montalbano said: We do seem to love a tartan trim for world cup kits. I guess the lack of sponsor (quite the anachronism in the modern era; why is that?) maybe makes a standard kit look a bit plain. Im sure its across the board that your not allowed sponsors at the world cup, i beleive so the sponsorship rights to world cup are a higher value. I quite like the tartan trim to it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob in Denny Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 2 hours ago, honestly united said: Was looking at that earlier, my group were all going to get the new top for our trip but have been put off by that Get mine the same place I got my last World Cup jersey... mind you, larger size could be a problem 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 2 hours ago, Salvo Montalbano said: We do seem to love a tartan trim for world cup kits. I guess the lack of sponsor (quite the anachronism in the modern era; why is that?) maybe makes a standard kit look a bit plain. RWC rule 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 5 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said: RWC rule Yeah but why? Its been mentioned above that the RWC Sponsorships are therefore higher, but every other tournament in every sport (not just rugby) have sponsors and allow sponsors logos if they are normally on the shirts. Are UEFA missing a trick here? Could they squeeze another ten million from Gazprom or whomever if Arsenal don't have Fly Emirates on their shirts? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 4 minutes ago, Salvo Montalbano said: every other tournament in every sport Like the football world cup and the Olympics? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 3 hours ago, Mark Connolly said: Like the football world cup and the Olympics? If it's anything like the Olympics you're not allowed anything apart from an official sponsor within 100 miles of the place rather than any altruistic reasons 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 (edited) Watched the highlights of South Africa's 43-12 win over Australia this morning. Australia took an early lead but the Saffers just overpowered them after that and were comfortable winners. The Saffers weren't even at full strength with several players left out ahead of their trip to New Zealand. Edited July 11, 2023 by peasy23 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 5 hours ago, peasy23 said: Watched the highlights of South Africa's 43-12 win over Australia this morning. Australia took an early lead but the Saffers just overpowered them after that and were comfortable winners. The Saffers weren't even at full strength with several players left out ahead of their trip to New Zealand. I completely appreciate that to be the best you have to beat the best and there’s something to be said for being battle tested in the pool stage, but the IRB really need to look at drawing the World Cup pools much closer to the actual tournament. You’ve now got a situation that the world rankings have changed so much since the seedings were set that you’ve got teams 1, 4 and 5 in the world in one of the group, 2 and 3 in another, and the other two groups don’t contain a top 5 team at all. Of course this is sour grapes from a Scotland fan because if every game goes with the rankings book, we will miss out on the QFs despite being 5th in the world whilst Wales in 9th will make it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 It's brutal, and I've never seen any rational or sensible explanation as to why the draw is one so far out from the tourney. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honestly united Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 12 hours ago, peasy23 said: It's brutal, and I've never seen any rational or sensible explanation as to why the draw is one so far out from the tourney. Its mostly to do with ticket sales. They were selling team group passes (ie all Scotlands group games) or city passes (ie all games in lille) about 2 years ago which then gives them a wedge of cash way in advance of a ball being kicked. We got 2 games tickets months before individual tickets went on sale just to ensure we got them. A few hundred million sitting in World Rugby's bank for year or so extra is probably quite appealing to them. They would fill the stadiums all the same leaving it later to do the draws. I know from when the wc was in England, my club were used as a training base (i think both Samoa and Romania used it) but we knew about a year in advance as we had time to have a new pitch laid with floodlights, changing room upgrades etc from getting chosen and notified we were hosting teams to the world cup starting. Ideally though you could wait until the southern hemisphere finishes in July / August take the rankings then, draw in September for the tournament the year after. By then you would probably have all the qualifing and repachge complete so would have all the teams, and all fans would have a fair crack at tickets. There will be fans of the late qualifiers who couldnt get tickets / hotels etc as they'd be sold out before they get a chance with the current set up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 France have just obliterated Ireland in the U20 final. A right wee shame that 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 On 10/07/2023 at 16:08, Mark Connolly said: Like the football world cup and the Olympics? I'm convinced I replied to this but not here. Weird. Anyway, I did say On 10/07/2023 at 16:03, Salvo Montalbano said: allow sponsors logos if they are normally on the shirts The Football World Cup (and Euros) have international football teams who don't normally have sponsors logos. The Olympics makes sense in the old amateur sense but also because the teams come under an Olympic Committee banner, so you'll have teams who would have different sponsors from normal (British Cycling sponsored by Shell, UK Athletics sponsored by Muller but Team GB sponsored by Aldi) and even different kit suppliers (Australia rugby supplied by Asics, Australian Olympic Team including rugby sevens supplied by Adidas). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted July 15, 2023 Share Posted July 15, 2023 If you're not watching the AB-SA game, get it on. 4 minutes in, the ABs have scored a belter, and people are getting smashed left, right and centre 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted July 15, 2023 Share Posted July 15, 2023 Good start from the U-20s against Zimbabwe in the World Trophy https://scottishrugby.org/fanzone/match-report-scotland-u20-64-33-zimbabwe-u20/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyNameIsClarence Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 Could just be the headline writers but I do wish people involved with Scotland (like Ashman in the BBC interview the other day) leaving us so open to jokes by saying things like "Scotland aren't going to finish second" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garybs Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 I see the Irish heads at the top have allowed Sexton to play in the world cup...... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 Quote Johnny Sexton admitted Misconduct. The Disciplinary Committee found his behaviour confrontational and aggressive towards and disrespectful of the match officials, it included his pointing his finger at them and shouting at them something to this effect: “it’s a disgrace you guys can’t get the big decisions right” probably accompanied by expletives “most likely the f-word”. His conduct was obviously unsportsmanlike and brought the sport of rugby union into disrepute. Having regard to the full circumstances of the Misconduct and the mitigation which is set out in detail in the written reasons, the Disciplinary Committee concluded that the appropriate and proportionate sanction was an immediate suspension of three matches. He is suspended with immediate effect and cannot play in the following Ireland matches: 1. 5 August Italy 2. 19 August England 3. 26 August Samoa He is free to play on 27 August 2023 When you read that, 3 weeks is a nonsense. I'm no fan of Dylan Hartley, but he got 11 weeks when he called Barnes "a fucking cheat", and he was actually involved in the game, not someone who happened to be involved with the club who strolled down to the refs room to have a go. Sexton has always been a c**t, and the way he speaks to officials during matches when he is playing is a disgrace. Hopefully the referees have taken note of this, and will be pinging him constantly at the RWC 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 Hopefully Jaco Peyper gets given the Scotland vs Ireland game 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyNameIsClarence Posted July 18, 2023 Share Posted July 18, 2023 It's embarrassing sometimes to have to try and defend a sport where a player is given a ridiculously lenient punishment because it's his last world cup and it'd be a shame if he couldn't play. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 Lions have confirmed the schedule for the tour of Oz in 2025. Tests are at Suncorp in Brisbane, the MCG and the Olympic Stadium in Sydney. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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