Should the RWC be renamed the Southern Hemisphere Champions trophy ?

Question

As only Southern hemisphere teams will play out the semi finals, New Zealand, Australia, Argentina, South Africa ! The Northern hemisphere teams are quite pathetic and ridiculous really, your thoughts ?

Answer 1

Agentininas play their rugby in the Northern Hemisphere. France England and Ireland are more influential and responsible for the performances  and professionalism of the Argentinains than the area they are from.

Answer 2

Its called a world cup and it won't change.

this world cup has only faltered due to some of the prominent northern hemisphere teams making one too many mistakes and costing them their games (France and wales) and some bad form from the other 2 highly rated teams (eng, ire) but thats just 1 world cup every RWC is different this is probably just a bad year for northern hemisphere teams.

Answer 3

On paper you are right, but do not underestimate the French........they p1ssed off the AB's before and are quite capable of doing this weekend!

And let us not forget who the current RWC champions are........as if they would allow us to;-)

Answer 4

No because lets face it, the defending Rugby World Cup Champions are England.  So there goes that idea huh.

Answer 5

Remember at the height of Welsh power when they won the Grand Slam in 2005, Fiji lost against Wales and IN CARDIFF by a single point....surely they should have at least sensed a loss was not to distant in the future. Every man and his dog wrote Fiji off from the start. Gave no respect to Tonga, Argentina and Samoa for this world cup.

The winds of change are here, NH so called superpower teams look pathetic in this tournament. No pride, no passion, just a lot of money looking ever so more like spoilt rich european football teams.

Its simple, SH have no respect for NH who have forgotten what the rugby code is all about. And they are getting their grassroot lessons this RWC 07

Answer 6

Erm, no. I know they're not exactly on-form just now. But has it escaped your memory that the defending champions for this world cup are a northern hemisphere team? With the exception of 1995, every World Cup final has seen a northern hemisphere team play a southern hemisphere team. Indeed, it wasn't that long ago that Scotland and New Zealand fought it out for 3rd place.

Answer 7

Well since the IRB is based in Dublin.... I don't think they would want to eliminate the northern hemisphere. Dr. Syd Millar would not have a bar of it, but he has signalled his intentions of stepping down after the 2007 RWC.

I think it should remain as the World Cup. But only because I like that World in Union song so much. It wouldn't make much sense if it was a song about one hemisphere, plus I don't think they could write another song of that quality.

We shouldn't be getting too arrogant mate. I am going to wait until after this weekend before I make any statements like that. One of the northern hemisphere teams will win this weekend.... I can feel it.

Answer 8

That's probably why there is reluctance to expand the Tri-nations to Four-nations (to include Argentina) - we'll have a RWC every year!

Answer 9

I think England may disagree with you mate. They will definitely have a crack at the green and gold this weekend. As will the French against NZ. Argentina are certainly looking the part, I doubt Scotland will cause too many probs for them.

Starting to look like the top four will be SH teams.

Answer 10

Southern hemisphere rugby is more entertaining, faster, more skillful and of greater intensity. No comparison! The Tri Nations is great rugby and very evenly matched. Southern hemisphere teams have proven their quality at this tournament.

Fiji

Samoa

Tonga

All Blacks

Australia

South Africa

Argentina ...... all play the same southern hemisphere style

Northern hemisphere have lost it as far as entertainment is concerned. If I wanted to watch accurate ball skills I would front up to Old Trafford or Highbury, not Johny Wilkinsons circus.

However just to prove that Southern Hemisphere rugby is superior to northern, any one of the above could lift the world cup on their day. However in the immortal words of Henry Ford, you can have it in any colour as long AS ITS BLACK

:)

Answer 11

how stupid is it that the 4th raanked southern team beats the 1 nd 2 ranked northern teams they should have a northern vs southern hemisphere game i think its safe 2 say now tho that all northern hemisphere teams shuld b counted as minnowss! :)