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Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot

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  • taniwharugbyT taniwharugby

    @The-Eagle holy shit, all the old cnuts coming out of the woodwork this week! 🙂

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    Blackheart
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    There's only one way to decide...a long table full of ice cold Steinlagers...Hansen and Gats drink as many as they can and the first to go to the loo loses.

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    • nzzpN nzzp

      @Blackheart said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

      Than a humiliating game that neither side wants to play. I'm sure all the Welsh and ABs want to do is go home and get over their Semi final loss.

      Just calculate who has the most points overall and give them the bronze.

      Boat races!

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      @nzzp said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

      @Blackheart said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

      Than a humiliating game that neither side wants to play. I'm sure all the Welsh and ABs want to do is go home and get over their Semi final loss.

      Just calculate who has the most points overall and give them the bronze.

      Boat races!

      Played in a 7's tournament in Cancun awhile back. We were so hungover at the actual event we got to a 3v 4 playoff or maybe 5v6 against a team called 'Off in church' we thought they were a religious team....nope just some witty blokes.

      Apparently 'no one beats off in church'

      We ended up having a boat race instead of the match and can say that we all beat off in church that day.

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        how about a count back on boundaries tries... that seems a fair way to do it.

        Sure both teams will be despondent in general, however Im sure the players will want to send their mates/coaches who are retiring off with a win.

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          I don't know why we need to worry about who comes third. There's the winners and the people who lost the final. Everything else is loser territory.

          Seeding should be done a year before according to rankings.

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          • antipodeanA antipodean

            I don't know why we need to worry about who comes third. There's the winners and the people who lost the final. Everything else is loser territory.

            Seeding should be done a year before according to rankings.

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            @antipodean said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

            I don't know why we need to worry about who comes third. There's the winners and the people who lost the final. Everything else is loser territory.

            Seeding should be done a year before according to rankings.

            If seedings were done a year before it would make a lot more sense

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              Paper,scissors, Rock, first to 10

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              • antipodeanA antipodean

                I don't know why we need to worry about who comes third. There's the winners and the people who lost the final. Everything else is loser territory.

                Seeding should be done a year before according to rankings.

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                Why even bother finding 3rd place. What relevance is there?

                As an aside boxing doesn't have 3v4 at the Lumpics. Just two bronze medals.

                Why make the players bash themselves up even more for meaningless match.

                Seeding is done on rankings anyway.

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                • bayimportsB bayimports

                  @antipodean said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

                  I don't know why we need to worry about who comes third. There's the winners and the people who lost the final. Everything else is loser territory.

                  Seeding should be done a year before according to rankings.

                  If seedings were done a year before it would make a lot more sense

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                  @bayimports said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

                  @antipodean said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

                  I don't know why we need to worry about who comes third. There's the winners and the people who lost the final. Everything else is loser territory.

                  Seeding should be done a year before according to rankings.

                  If seedings were done a year before it would make a lot more sense

                  Yeah, it was probably a little far out, but better than results 4 year's previous.

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                  • boobooB booboo

                    Why even bother finding 3rd place. What relevance is there?

                    As an aside boxing doesn't have 3v4 at the Lumpics. Just two bronze medals.

                    Why make the players bash themselves up even more for meaningless match.

                    Seeding is done on rankings anyway.

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                    Steven Harris
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                    @booboo the worst thing about it , we have to get up for this match, imagine being in the first All Black team to have lost to Wales since 1953..meaningless or not the press will be all over this if it turns south.

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                      If we win we take back second in the rankings, that's something imo

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                        No cheating:

                        can you name all the " bronze medallists" in the history of RWC?

                        Nah, me neither

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                        • SiamS Siam

                          No cheating:

                          can you name all the " bronze medallists" in the history of RWC?

                          Nah, me neither

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                          @Siam said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

                          No cheating:

                          can you name all the " bronze medallists" in the history of RWC?

                          Nah, me neither

                          Wales
                          Us
                          England
                          South Africa
                          Us
                          Argentina
                          Australia
                          South Africa

                          At a guess anyway, the first 3 are wild guesses

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                          • SiamS Siam

                            No cheating:

                            can you name all the " bronze medallists" in the history of RWC?

                            Nah, me neither

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                            @Siam said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

                            can you name all the " bronze medallists" in the history of RWC?

                            All but 2011. Can remember where I physically watched that game but potentially overindulged.

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                            • SiamS Siam

                              No cheating:

                              can you name all the " bronze medallists" in the history of RWC?

                              Nah, me neither

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                              @Siam actually yeah ... but I is a nerd

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                              • mariner4lifeM mariner4life

                                @Siam said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

                                No cheating:

                                can you name all the " bronze medallists" in the history of RWC?

                                Nah, me neither

                                Wales
                                Us
                                England
                                South Africa
                                Us
                                Argentina
                                Australia
                                South Africa

                                At a guess anyway, the first 3 are wild guesses

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                                @mariner4life said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

                                @Siam said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

                                No cheating:

                                can you name all the " bronze medallists" in the history of RWC?

                                Nah, me neither

                                Wales
                                Us
                                England
                                South Africa
                                Us
                                Argentina
                                Australia
                                South Africa

                                At a guess anyway, the first 3 are wild guesses

                                Good effort. One wrong. One of your wild guesses. They were 4th.

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                                  @Blackheart is there fucken anything you don't want to change?

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                                    captains whip it out. whomever is smallest wins

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                                    • raznomoreR raznomore

                                      captains whip it out. whomever is smallest wins

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                                      @raznomore said in Surely there has to be a better way to decide for third spot:

                                      captains whip it out. whomever is smallest wins

                                      Japan!!

                                      Wait, their captain is not Japanese

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                                        sparky
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                                        A Golden Shears contest.

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                                          Nevorian
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                                          yep some good old fashioned drinking games and singing

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