D-Day looms for RWC 2023 bidders
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RTE now confirming it:
South Africa recommended as 2023 Rugby World Cup host by technical review group
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@tewaio said in D-Day looms for RWC 2023 bidders:
9 mins before deadline, twitter story breaking:
Midi Olympique reporting World Rugby will back South Africa as 2023 World Cup hosts. Also say "Ireland came last in all criteria"
I'd like to know what the criteria were
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SA announced by WR as the recommended hosts.
Congrats SA.
Very disappointed for Ireland. Bugger and shite.
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@kruse said in D-Day looms for RWC 2023 bidders:
How the hell did South Africa put forward a "vision and concept" better than Ireland's "ah, it'll be a grand ol' craic, aye"
Turns out they didn't - and Ireland did NOT come last in all criteria, they just came last in the total score.
The report has the actual scores for each criteria, with weighting.
SA come last in "vision and hosting concept" -
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Bollocks. Bugger. Shite. Fuck. Feck. Arse. Girls.
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While the South African "vision" is pretty much described as boring...
The vision, while not going above and beyond in creative
terms, is founded on achievability, ...And the boring pricks managed to pretend innovation by shoehorning in the term "cloud-based", although they didn't think of mentioning "big-data".
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Nice that SA got the recommendation - but there is still a lot of water to flow under this bridge. I expect there will be a ton of back-room deals being done prior to the vote and i am giving SA at best a 50% chance of finally securing the deal.
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@pot-hale said in D-Day looms for RWC 2023 bidders:
Bollocks. Bugger. Shite. Fuck. Feck. Arse. Girls.
Should really have included that in the bid.
But yeah - feel for ya. Would have loved to have spent a month or so riding around Ireland watching rugby. -
This is the first time there has been a board recommendation for a one off RWC? Traditionally voting has been pretty unpredictable year on year.
Still seems like several key hurdles that would do SA in - the rand being terrible, their sports admin always being bonkers, safety and security concerns as things could deteriorate even further in the next 6 years.
I would also imagine that Ireland have the Home Unions in their pocket (mind you stranger things have happened Australia went against us in 2011) which would be a very nice head start on voting.
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@rotated said in D-Day looms for RWC 2023 bidders:
This is the first time there has been a board recommendation for a one off RWC? Traditionally voting has been pretty unpredictable year on year.
Still seems like several key hurdles that would do SA in - the rand being terrible, their sports admin always being bonkers, safety and security concerns as things could deteriorate even further in the next 6 years.
I would also imagine that Ireland have the Home Unions in their pocket (mind you stranger things have happened Australia went against us in 2011) which would be a very nice head start on voting.
Nix on the Home Unions. A number of the unions including NZRU have said they will vote with the recommendation - why bother having it otherwise.
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Media release (contains link to evaluation report):
Rugby World Cup Board recommends South Africa as RWC 2023 host
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The jokes have started already.
IRFU said they are going to boycott the semi-final and final in protest.
FFR plan to reduce number of foreign players in Top 14 from 93% to 92% may now have to be put on hold.
