IRB lowers costs
27 Nov 2008
The IRB have decided to reduce the costs of hosting the 2015 and 2019 World Cups due to the global economic crisis.
The SA Rugby board of directors have decided to focus on the 2019 bid, which has been reduced from £120m to £96m. The 2015 tournament will now cost £80 million (it was £100m).
IRB chairman Bernard Lapasset said this was merely the minimum fee required, certain countries could provide more.
“The revised minimum requirements are just that, minimums,” Lapasset said in a statement. “There is nothing to prevent one union bidding the minimum guarantee of 80 million pounds for RWC 2015 and another bidding 100 million pounds.”
“That would lead to a very interesting decision making process next year when the host unions for Rugby World Cup 2015 and 2019 will be decided in July,” he said.
South Africa’s possible rivals to host the World Cup include Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Australia, Japan and England, while the latter is targeting 2015.
9 Comments
27 Nov 2008, 09:02 am
So NZ still has to fork out a **** lot of money?
27 Nov 2008, 09:03 am
And with all the hooha in the previous selection process I am sure Japan would get 2015.
27 Nov 2008, 09:10 am
Japan will have the money to host it but once again its on a bad time zone to the real rugby playing nations. Also cant see the same rugby vibe we saw in France and our own here in 1995. So I for one hope they don’t get it but on the other hand it would be good to make rugby more global. I would have like SA to be hosting the 2015 cup but now that its in the SH in 2011 cant see a SH country getting it so its best we bit for the 2019.
27 Nov 2008, 09:11 am
#3 Puma: bit = bid
27 Nov 2008, 09:12 am
£96m is pocket change compared to what is spent on the 2010 WC.
Also Grant it would have been much easier for you to have stated that only NZ will not try to host the 2019 event.
27 Nov 2008, 09:34 am
World economy generally runs in 7 year cycles, so theoretically the world should be back in the middle of an economic boom in the years leading up to 2019…..
Oh well, still good to keep things realistic. Otherwise we’ll end up like soccer where Blatters word is like a proclomation from God…
27 Nov 2008, 09:37 am
2015 – Japan
2019 – Italy
It has to be, for the sake of developing the game.
27 Nov 2008, 09:51 am
#7 wooden spoon: Italy would be good as its on the same time zone as us here in SA and Italy is a lovely tourist place too. Maybe Italy in 2015 and Japan in 2019. It wont be good to have two rugby world cups one after the other in the wrong time zone to Europe and SA where they get most of the TV coverage. Thats the main reason that IRB will also lose money this time by letting NZ host the cup. Not in the time zone of Europe or us that pay the most for coverage. Pubs, restaurants that have those games on at normal time will lose out too. So maybe for that alone I think it may be Italy in 2015. We wont have to get up at 5am to watch the final in our PJ’s with hot coffee!! Like we will when its in NZ in 2011. Better to have mates over at a normal time to have a braai and beers in the evening to watch or go to the pub. So I hope its Italy next or really wished it could have been SA but it wont be us.
27 Nov 2008, 09:57 am
#7 wooden spoon: I’d say it’ll be the other way around.
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