Boks among top RWC seeds
25 Nov 2012
New Zealand, South Africa, Australia and France will be the top four seeds for the 2015 World Cup draw on 3 December.
The ratings gap between those sides and the rest are too high for results of the two matches on 1 December (England vs New Zealand and Wales vs Australia) to affect their position as a top seed.
The rankings are being used to rank the 12 directly qualified teams for the World Cup into three bands for the draw with the sides ranked one to four in band one – and crucially avoiding each other until the knockout stage – those five to eight in band two and the remaining four in band three.
England and Ireland are in the second band of seeds for the draw (fifth to eighth in the rankings).
If Wales avoid defeat against Australia, Wales and Samoa will take the other two spots in this second band, with Argentina in the third band. However, if Australia defeat Wales, then Samoa and Argentina will fill these two spots in the second band, with Wales joining Italy, Tonga and Scotland in the third band of seeds.
IRB rankings
1 New Zealand 92.91
2 South Africa 86.94
3 Australia 86.31
4 France 85.07
5 England 81.07
6 Ireland 80.22
7 Wales 78.95
8 Samoa 78.709
9 Argentina 78.708
10 Italy 76.24
11 Tonga 76.10
12 Scotland 75.83
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25 Nov 2012, 23:38 pm
@nortierd-149:
Sorry, should be Mayan not what spellcheck thought it should be
25 Nov 2012, 23:39 pm
@wnbb-138: Your last comment is out of order. Shame on you.
As for the remainder of this thread, same old same old.
25 Nov 2012, 23:42 pm
@wnbb-147:
look, dont make threats like this ok… its not nice and could lead to someone getting hurt. ask yourself if its worth it.
25 Nov 2012, 23:45 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-148: *** off placenta face.
25 Nov 2012, 23:45 pm
@JL1-142:
True.
But i do hope Hore does get punished and a good one as well.
He may not have wanted the outcome of his silly act like the player leaving in the first few minutes but he did it. Time to face up.
We all know there have been same strange banning in the game over the last few years, and you guys are right, consistency is needed. Thompson was lucky, even though it was a pu$$y ruck it was on a head of a player, needs at least a month, Grayling lucky to get two weeks. IRB needs a to sort out the citings. They need one lot of people to do it fulltime, not picking different people here and there to cite and punish.
25 Nov 2012, 23:46 pm
@wnbb-154:
no, f.uck you
ok
25 Nov 2012, 23:47 pm
anyway
i’m out
25 Nov 2012, 23:48 pm
@wnbb-154: You are a real farkin doos and deserve a good peosklapping you farkin pond life scum.stop your shy t if you know what’s good for you.
25 Nov 2012, 23:50 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-157: then *** off you blue bull pus sy !!
25 Nov 2012, 23:51 pm
@Hurricane-155:
All anyone ever asks for is consistancy, no perceived bias because this one was nice to the bloody man in charge of the senence and that one had a clean record, or this one said sorry and the guy he kicked said it did not hurt…………….none of that k uk. Headbutt two weeks (it must connect!!!), punch 3 weeks, tip tackle 4 weeks etc………….no if buts or maybes……….straight non negotiable sentences. Only then will we get rid of all the sh it of bias (perceived or otherwise)
25 Nov 2012, 23:51 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-148:
Cheers Bakkies
25 Nov 2012, 23:53 pm
@wnbb-147:
oh wow a cyber hero……..
25 Nov 2012, 23:54 pm
@Hurricane-155:
The TMO should be given the authority to intervene if he picks up on field offenses that the ref and assistants miss.
He can ask the ref to call time out and review and then make a recommendation.
25 Nov 2012, 23:55 pm
@nortierd-149:
wow ok.
Dammit!!!
Thats all us kiwis need on here is another South African that actually knows his stuff
25 Nov 2012, 23:57 pm
@poppa69-110:
Again with the generalisations, f uk you are a tw at of the highest order!
26 Nov 2012, 00:01 am
Blue bull supporters are nothing but scumbags.they would make for perfect scarecrows because they are so kuk ugly.if you wanna force your children to do something you just show them a picture of a blue bull supporter to scare the living daylights out of them .
26 Nov 2012, 00:01 am
@whatever-160:
Yep, lets get some consistency here.
26 Nov 2012, 00:14 am
@wnbb-166:
Hey, I must disagree.
I live in Pretoria ( support the Stormers though ) but I’ve seen some very pretty Bull supporters.
The amazing thing is when they did so well and reached the finals you would walk into a supermarket and could buy blue bread, blue milk, blue milk tart, blue boere wors I s hit you not.
I’ve never seen anything like it before.
The best thing about a Bulls loss is the peace and quiet, better than car horns going off.
Their supporters are fervent and really get behing the team, I’ll give them that.
26 Nov 2012, 00:46 am
@wnbb-166:
You need to take a chill pill, banter is good but if you actually want to go out and hurt someone because of what they said on an annoymous blog, you need to go and see someone and talk through your childhood! Do some “unpacking” cause it’s not normal.
26 Nov 2012, 00:58 am
Hurricane and Te Rangatira are good folk. Cane is a softie deep down, a decent chap.
NZ people are a friendly bunch generally.
I like the flavour they bring here.
I would far rather have them here – and chat rugby with them – than this monotonous and BORING irrationally obsessed Bakkies Loverboy who, frankly, is getting a tad much with his constant whining. It gives the rest of us a bad name.
Poppa has deep seated mental issues and is a curse to this site. Just like Bakkies Lover I suspect he tarnishes the rest of the good kiwi folk in the eyes of many on this rugby site.
26 Nov 2012, 01:03 am
@Liewe Luiperd-170:
Don’t read the ones you don’t like then…….it’s actually very easy, there are some blokes who ar e just plain boring and arn’t even worth a read. Skoppie for eg……..I only read his short posts, anything past 4 lines is repetitive boring BS
26 Nov 2012, 01:07 am
Agreed re poppa……..he is just a demented doos, nothing more nothing less.
Hurri, I think is a good bloke, he just gets caught up in the “poppa syndrome” every now and again………
Te Rangi has the patience as long as his arm, reminds me of my Dad, although it looks like he has reached the end of his arm….
26 Nov 2012, 02:58 am
@whatever-160: Well said. (And Hore should be banned for a quite long time, no argument).
26 Nov 2012, 05:38 am
Oh dear.
The Poodlefucker has gone feral again.
Filthy little tikkop *****.
26 Nov 2012, 06:03 am
These rankings wont make too much difference at the top end. It is the third tier that is most important. A team like Wales or Argentina as the third ranked side in a group is where the groups get interesting.
26 Nov 2012, 07:03 am
@wnbb-159:
i really dont want to stoop to your level
but go ***** yourself
26 Nov 2012, 07:05 am
@Liewe Luiperd-170:
then scroll on by, doos
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