Rugby World Cup 2027 Draw - LIVE

[kiwiinmelb]

I don’t follow all this as close as most here ,

But at the last wc didn’t we have the top 4 sides on one side of the draw , therefore 2 being eliminated in the quarters and the talk was they were going to fix that . Now we have 1 and 2 potentially meeting in a quarter final.

I think you have massive problems in your tournament when it’s better to finish second than first in your pool , there has to be reward for excellence and incentive to win. Tempting teams to throw games is about as stupid as you wish for when setting this up.

Also there has to be incentive to be higher in world rankings or what are we playing for in between tournaments.
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[Bones]

@kiwiinmelb sooo....if NZ slip to 5th before the WC then all good?

[kiwiinmelb]

@Bones said in Rugby World Cup 2027 Draw - LIVE:

@kiwiinmelb sooo....if NZ slip to 5th before the WC then all good?

Be better if South Africa did .

[booboo]

Seems like the drums are beating that organisers will be taking the sensible option of playing the Wobs v ABs at Sydney.

And opening game will be versus either Chile or HK. The latter makes sense to me.

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/why-a-wallabies-all-blacks-blockbuster-won-t-kick-off-the-2027-world-cup-20260201-p5nym2.html

Draw announced Tuesday.

[Bovidae]

Australia vs HK China is confirmed for the opening game.

The ABs start with Chile in Perth, Aust in Sydney, and then HK China in Melbourne.

https://www.rugbyworldcup.com/2027/en/matches

[booboo]

Pool games not great for travel from here.

Will see if we can swing Melb v HKC ...

[Kiwiwomble]

All blacks socials throwing a little shade

[mariner4life]

I've registered my interest, but there are precious few games worth the travel expense. Unless i get tickets to the Wallabies game i doubt i will bother

[Dan54]

Good ABs opener is only Chile, be on at 11.15pm here , but pretty sure not a lot will bother staying up for it. Wallabies at 9.15 so not too bad.

Whoops then read properly and saw the time of 6.15 was NZT and not Perth time.
And Wallabies 7.10 our time.

[Dan54]

@mariner4life said in Rugby World Cup 2027 Draw - LIVE:

I've registered my interest, but there are precious few games worth the travel expense. Unless i get tickets to the Wallabies game i doubt i will bother

Yep Mariner apart from Wallabies , I can't see too much interest in the pool games. Well except in maybe countries like HK and Chile .

[Unite]

The All Blacks’ round of 16 game will be in Brisbane assuming they top their pool.