SA faces World Cup heartbreak
30 Jun 2009
Rugby World Cup Ltd will recommend to the IRB that England and Japan host the 2015 and 2019 tournaments respectively.
With the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand expected to make a loss, the IRB has to stage the 2015 tournament in a country where it can maximise profits – and England fits the bill perfectly. Japan, which many expected to be awarded the 2011 event, will play hosts in 2019, in a move to develop new rugby markets.
South Africa, however, has again failed in its bid to host the World Cup for a second time and will now have to wait until at least 2023.
The recommendation of Rugby World Cup Ltd (which owns all rights associated with the tournament and is under the control of the IRB) comes after a comprehensive tender analysis process involving detailed technical and strategic evaluation and independent financial, commercial and legal analysis of each of the tenders.
‘All the tenders were of a very high standard and each union demonstrated that they could host an excellent Rugby World Cup. It is a tribute to the health of the game and the enormous prestige of the Rugby World Cup that the field was so strong,’ said RWCL chairman Bernard Lapasset.
‘Both Italy and South Africa submitted comprehensive tenders with very strong government support and would be capable of hosting outstanding Rugby World Cup tournaments now or in the future. I would like to thank and congratulate them both for the quality of their tenders. However, there could only be two recommended unions and after detailed review, the RWCL board decided that England and Japan would provide the best balanced combination of hosts for the continued worldwide development of the game.’
The recommendation on the 2015 and 2019 World Cup host unions is the culmination of an extensive analysis process that kicked off in August 2008. The 71-page recommendation report will now be sent to the IRB council for consideration before it officially selects the host unions at a special meeting in Dublin on 28 July.
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30 Jun 2009, 21:03 pm
#19 Tacitus:
The younger generation Japanese, Koreans and Chinese (only asian countries i lived in) are hardly small.
30 Jun 2009, 22:44 pm
#30 Big Hit: #30 Big Hit: yes, but english football is mostly first gen englishman(i.e. parents not born in uk)
dont get me started on all the “flutey”s running around english rugby in the last decade or so.
30 Jun 2009, 22:48 pm
#31 Dantalian: i haven’t got a clue either, never heard of them. maybe they wouldnt need the cash if they didnt set up farcical tribunals.
btw i hope Italy gets the next World Cup 2015 and Japan 2019, SA 2023, Thats the most fair scenario(ok maybe, Argentina 2023)
But to go back to Britain once again would be as detrimental as this forthcoming NZ 2011.
30 Jun 2009, 22:52 pm
#39 Big Hit: Dela#41 Tacitus: You sir, have won 5 internets
1 Jul 2009, 00:33 am
#35 Tacitus: #41 Tacitus:
precisely those wars were fought over nothing as they still are today, fought over false allegiances to false ideologies, just as you still cling to the false ideology that you are different or superior to someone of another race group or breeding, so you continue in your falsehood just as your kith and kin were deluded in their falsehood of superiority or blood bond, clansmen of a different race group clinging together.
#54 Oxy moron: No he does not win 5 internets, he should rather try and get ‘civilized’ instead.
No European is ethnically African, his allegiance to any ‘country’ in Africa is simply in his head, more than 500 years ago there were no Europeans in Africa, so all this allegiance to something alien to his natural disposition is purely an indoctrinated falsehood in peoples heads. And that includes Springbok jerseys and blazers and all paraphernalia that bring about the wrath of the warmongers for the blood lust of war, in defending ones fallacious attachment to false pride or identity.
1 Jul 2009, 07:32 am
well that is unfortunate and because the country wanted another world cup well needed it soon after the soccer.
1 Jul 2009, 08:44 am
#41 Tacitus: Okay, so you get to draw the line then? One or two generations = not cool. Seven or eight generations = cool. What makes you, with your immigrant ancestry, South African but young Ishtak Sangakhara in England, whose grandparents came from Pakistan, can’t clam to be English? You see, when you design the criteria to be that subjective (and when you make yourself the judge of said criteria) your little ideology starts to look pretty shaky.
1 Jul 2009, 09:24 am
Good discussion. Dan Retief in an article widely published in SA a couple of years back angrily questioned the right of Jona Lomu, Michael Jones and Bryan Williams to play for the All Blacks (he mentioned those players by name).
Had he done a BIT of research he would have discovered that all of the above three were born and raised in NZ. Dan PRESUMED they were born in the islands but immigrated to NZ.
Then you have those that arrive in their new country when very young. New NZ captain Mils Miliaiana arrived in NZ when he was just one year old. He can’t remember anything about Samoa. In my opinion he is as Kiwi as Colin Meads.
1 Jul 2009, 09:34 am
….Or perhaps Dan thought that even though Lomu, Jones and Williams were born and raised in NZ somehow they are not true Kiwis and should not have played for the All Blacks? Dangerous thought.
1 Jul 2009, 10:41 am
#51 bestyearever: Might be true, but the Vietnamese and Cambodians are VERY small.
1 Jul 2009, 10:43 am
if someone has been naturalised into a country then by law they are a citizen of that country. for whatever reason they have chosen, the have sworn some kind of allegiance and therefore qualify to live, work and support their country.
the real problem Tacitus is the people who go to live in another country, accept the benefits and then try to change the country and its culture to their preferences. Flutey, Stevens, Catt etc. have all chosen to live in England and accept it’s laws and respect its culture. they have also chosen to follow there professional careers there and in their case that means playing rugby. everyone has a need to self actualise and for them this means playing at the highest level – internationally. who are you to stop them from doing that?
to be honest, it sounds like whinging to me: ‘the All Blacks seem to beat us a lot so let’s moan about the islanders in the team.’
1 Jul 2009, 10:44 am
#60 King Shark: funny then how glenwood was beaten this yeat in the schools world cup by a japanese school.
1 Jul 2009, 10:45 am
#60 King Shark: the average welsh and scottish person is pretty small too but you can generally find 15 in a 1000 that are pretty big.
1 Jul 2009, 10:48 am
giving the world cup do japan is like Kaizer Chiefs playing a curtain raiser at Loftus before a Bulls & Sharks Super 14 final
1 Jul 2009, 10:57 am
daar sal mense wees, maar niemand gaan weet wat de donner gaan aan nie
1 Jul 2009, 12:08 pm
#23 bokfan1: “Who wants to go to those miserable little islands, the pimples on the arse of the earth?”
Nice remark from a person who “only reacts to the insults to SA and SA rugby”. Pathetic little WUM.
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