World Series on cards
22 Sep 2008
The International Rugby Board are discussing the possibility of staging a World Series played over two years between the world’s ten leading nations.
New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, Argentina, England, Wales, France, Ireland, Scotland and Italy are reported to be the 10 teams identified to compete for the R146 million prize the IRB are reportedly willing to pay the champions. The IRB has identified 2010 as the potential starting date for the series.
The UK’s Daily Mail reports that the series will start as a round-robin competition, the sides playing each other once, with all Six Nations games and some Tri Nations results counting towards the World Series. Argentina would play matches against South Africa, New Zealand and Australia when they’re not involved in Tri Nations Tests, while Tests between the northern and southern hemisphere nations would take place in the June and November Test windows.
To circumvent the challenge of some teams only playing four home Tests, proposals for the bonus point system to include an extra one for an away win, are under consideration.
At the end of the two-year period the top-placed nations would play each other in a one-off game to claim the title of World Series champions. The 90 000 seater Wembley Stadium in London is being touted as the most likely venue for the final.
An IRB spokesman told the Daily Mail: “A lot of goalposts will need a lot of shifting if the World Series is to get off the ground before the next World Cup in 2011.
“It’s a complex jigsaw with a lot of obstacles to be overcome but the idea is taking shape.”
All Blacks captain Richie McCaw lent his support to the concept.
“If it’s done right it could add something to world rugby, it could be a real spectacle,” McCaw told the NZPA.
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22 Sep 2008, 13:41 pm
#38 Spencer 19:
Nonsense, the boks are world champions, you carry that title when you win the world cup, we were the best team in the world at that tournament which everyone had been working towards and played in a neutral venue.
The boks are world champions for 4 years.
They have a new coach and lost a whole bunch of players from RWC, yet we are still the only side to have beaten NZ in NZ in 5 years and no-one has decimated australia in that sort of fashion that i can remember.
If the Boks are not no 1, they’re pretty close to it, when get it all together.
22 Sep 2008, 13:42 pm
#50 Spencer 19:
Cricket World Cup – Australia World Champions
Soccer World Cup – Italy World Champions
Euro Cup – Spain European Champions
Rugby World Cup – South Africa World Champions
Pretty simple really. That’s how sport works: learn it
22 Sep 2008, 13:56 pm
#50 Spencer 19: describing NZ at RWCs?
22 Sep 2008, 14:05 pm
#49 Big Hit:
Got have a laugh at these kiwis, If they won the world cups then they would definately be knowen as the world champs but no other team has the right to call themselves that.
22 Sep 2008, 14:08 pm
#47 Spencer 19: no, the boks are internationally recognised as the team in green and gold. they have always been green and gold.
they have a far better record against australia at rugby union in addition to a longer history in the game and therefore have first rights to the colours.
you may be canary yellow and green if you so wish.
22 Sep 2008, 14:10 pm
in fact, lets ask an impartial observer to decide shall we?
big hit, which team springs to mind when you hear green and gold?
22 Sep 2008, 14:14 pm
Basically Spencer doesn’t seem to know much about sport. Not worth replying to him, only embarrassing really.
22 Sep 2008, 14:21 pm
#56 rangerman:
I will help you out Nature Man …
Boks have always been green & Gold & Wobblies have always been baby sh*t yellow – but, being the Convicts they are, they are trying to steal the Boks fine reputation.
22 Sep 2008, 14:24 pm
Someone is flying a kite. Will never happen
It is either the Rugby World Cup or the Rugby World Series.
The Sevens World Series exists.
This will devalue the bids of the 2015 and 2019 Rugby World Cup faster than you can say Sir Clive Woodward or Bernard Lapassett are you freekin crazee?
Why bid for a RWC at R1bn when you can get this at the fire sale price of R100m?
22 Sep 2008, 14:30 pm
#58 Rugby_Princess:
again i say, you are no princess, you are a queen!
it is true, they are johnny come latelies in the pantheon of rugby union and have no claim on our colours.
22 Sep 2008, 14:33 pm
#60 rangerman:
Yes, they should learn their place
22 Sep 2008, 14:35 pm
#61 Rugby_Princess: if we have told them 8 times, we have told them 53 times, the boks are green and gold!
22 Sep 2008, 14:38 pm
MM
22 Sep 2008, 14:44 pm
#63 Sheriff: cheers mate.
#61 Rugby_Princess: cheers princess.
22 Sep 2008, 14:47 pm
#64 rangerman:
Cheers mate, early departure?
Wife back already?
22 Sep 2008, 14:47 pm
#59 Freddy Krueger: I hope so. It will only devalue the World Cup. Tours are a better bet – look at how the British Lions are so highly regarded.
22 Sep 2008, 15:02 pm
They should do as in World Football (soccer) and have friendlies…like “tests” between the All Blacks and for instance Samoa should be a friendly and not get test status
The same if a weakened Wales team (for example) play the Boks…if there isn’t a certain number of first-choice players (say 10) in the side, it should be a friendly not a test
This will allow the Boks to rest first-choice players too and blood new talent
22 Sep 2008, 15:04 pm
Im not sure why RP or WPTID dont want to give me Dawn mobile/cell number?
Maybe they will reconsider.
22 Sep 2008, 15:17 pm
#62 rangerman:
& I have told you a million times not to exaggerate
#63 Sheriff:
TS
22 Sep 2008, 15:18 pm
#68 Sheriff:
to ? Someone in particular or just anyone who will listen ?
Who you
22 Sep 2008, 15:21 pm
#69 Rugby_Princess:
Yes my apologies, I was busy typing the following
“MMhahahahaha” Unlike your mistake, mine was not deliberate.
22 Sep 2008, 15:27 pm
#70 Rugby_Princess:
Yeah keo can be a cold place sometimes.
People dont care anymore…
22 Sep 2008, 15:58 pm
#71 Sheriff:
Que ?
#72 Sheriff:
What is all this “woe is me” about ?
22 Sep 2008, 16:10 pm
#73 Rugby_Princess:
What I’m saying is that Dawn cannot care too much about us if she leaves just like that?
I even received a mail about this from one of the regulars here.
I want to chat to Dawn. Do you think she will receive it favourably?
22 Sep 2008, 17:56 pm
#55 rangerman:
Haha fcu.. ha! If you and Princess were the son and daughter of your respective countries sporting success you would be orphans relative to Australia’s record, and the last time I looked, Australia’s national sporting colours are green and gold.
#60 rangerman: That’s so *** Rangerman, I nearly choked on my peanuts, your’e the queen!
By the way, what’s so ***** about the countries that you and Princess inhabit that forces such large numbers of your fellow countrymen to come flooding into OZ?
An Australian, a Kiwi and South African are in a bar one night having a beer. All of a sudden the South African drinks his beer, throws his glass in the air, pulls out a gun and shoots the glass to pieces. ‘In Seth Efrika our glasses are so cheap that we don’t need to drink from the same one twice,’ he says. The Kiwi, obviously impressed by this, drinks his beer, throws his glass into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the glass to pieces. ‘Wull mate, in Noo Zulland we have so much sand to make the glasses that we don’t need to drink out of the same glass either,’ he says. The Australian, cool as a Koala, picks up his beer and drinks it, throws his glass in the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the South African and the Kiwi. He turns to the astonished barman and says,’In Strailya mate, we have so many bloody South Africans and Kiwis that we don’t need to drink with the same ones twice.’
22 Sep 2008, 20:19 pm
There is no way he players will survive such. Their bodies will be in bits. There is already complaint about too many matches.
What should happen is the winners of the heineken cup should play the S14 winners. That would be somthing as a World club championship.
23 Sep 2008, 00:06 am
#18 Big Hit:
But at least those 2,000 people would be clean and fresh smelling unlike 70,000 unwashed Poms watching NZ and SA playing on Wembley
23 Sep 2008, 00:07 am
#20 It is just a game:
That pretty much sums up the problems with the World Cup set up.
23 Sep 2008, 00:22 am
#51 cab:
Come on Cab,how many players have you lost from the RWC team.I think not that much compared to NZ.You have a new coach and so does Ozzie.The teams in the Tri nations had alot to contend with.NZ had to come back from a dissapointing RWC campaign.Players leaving,the country was divided as to who should coach NZ even when the 3N was going on.We had clowns in Christchurch clapping for the Wallabies.So all teams had there problems.In the end like NZ wasnt the best team at the RWC,SA was not the best team at the Tri nations.
#54 Sonito:
No SA are the RWC holders that once again found out that playing against NZ and OZ they have huge problems winning against these 2 teams.Even France has had the better of you in the last 5 games.I am not disputing that you guys won the RWC by the way,it was a fair competition.
I think the World Series would be more of an example as to who is the real champ and not relying on who got the better draw.You play the top ten teams in the world,to win the world series you will have to play a nation that is in the top 5,unlike the RWC
23 Sep 2008, 01:33 am
ABs to peak between World Series’ & World Cups… choke on demand
23 Sep 2008, 01:47 am
#18 Big Hit: Tosser ,why don’t you put your correct name, Steven Jones as your nick
23 Sep 2008, 01:50 am
#80 china: And you qualify as a complete idiot
23 Sep 2008, 03:18 am
Why don’t they do away with 3N and 6N and just have a S10 Twst series every year?
23 Sep 2008, 03:40 am
#75 Inevitable:
Time for your Xannax … there’s a good boy.
#83 SodaJoe:
Just have an annual comp – would certainly put an end to the “we are the best in the world, no we are” b*tching 
oohh now you are talkign
23 Sep 2008, 08:28 am
They’ve been playing too much EA Sports rugby 2006, there’s a 10 Nations championship there
23 Sep 2008, 09:04 am
I personally think scrap the six nations and tri nations and set up a global season where the top ten teams are put nto pools for the year and top two play off in semis and then finals.
There should be a place or qualifier for teams placed between 20 and 10 pre tournament.
The next year you switch so that you dont have the same teams in your pool and then one begins as per usual.
One thing is guaranteed the saffas will still complain obout travel.
23 Sep 2008, 10:34 am
#79 Hurricane:
Being world champions means that you have the balls and character to win the big games! Thats why the all blacks cant call themselves world champions because they dont have any balls or character. You have *** boys like Ali Williams who complains “I dont like preassure”.
Thats why you not world champions!!!
23 Sep 2008, 12:20 pm
#87 Sonito:
Where did i say we were world champions in my post.Where in my post i denied SA were.Get your hand off it.If you think we have *** boys then your bunch of players cant even beat a bunch of homos.Dosnt look good for the World Champions does it.Until you can beat NZ more times than NZ can beat SA then by all means call our players ***.
23 Sep 2008, 12:42 pm
#79 Hurricane:
Hurricane it is very simple, SA won the world cup and hence are world champions for 4 years. Nz won the tri-nation and are thus tri-nations champions for 1 year. That I am afraid is how it works.
SA are world champions until 2011 and ppl can wail, gnash and tear that down, but it has no effect until you actually win the thing.
23 Sep 2008, 17:46 pm
#84 Rugby_Princess: Thanks for the recommendation. Have you experienced any side affects other than verbal diarrhea?
23 Sep 2008, 23:08 pm
#89 cab:
SA are world champions,where have i said they wernt?
You are just like Sonito,read my post again.
I was pointing out that the World Series would be a better solution every 2 years playing against the 10 top teams in the world.I am not knocking or putting down your guys team at all but i think this is a better arrangment than the RWC.
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