What impact will both loses have to the 1 & 2 rankings for All Blacks & Wallabies ?

Question

Will we lose our current world rankings as No.1 & 2 teams ?

Answer 1

All it will do is knock us back abit , make us re focus

And then look out World we are coming back

ANZAC spirit will never die

Answer 2

The irony is, because of NZ's high points tally, they will probably retain the no.1 spot, even after the RWC final.

Aus will probably surrender no.2 to SA, but should not drop below 3 this week, even if Argentina (current no.4) beats Scotland.  After next weekend's semi's either Aus, France or Argentina may be in the 3rd spot.

Answer 3

No impact at all. At the end of the day, it's just one match. The overall win records of both teams will hardly be affected.

Check out win to loss statistics for the All Blacks and Aussies. You'll find that the AB's have beaten every other team substantially more than they lost to them. There is not a single team in the world who have beaten us more than we've beaten them. The Aussie record is next best. Whoever wins this world cup, can be guaranteed getting hammered by both NZ and Oz in the next 4 years.

Answer 4

Probably. It doesn't really matter. Last time England turned to cr@p 5 minutes after they won. The winner only really says "yeah!" and goes home for another 4 years.

Answer 5

New Zealand will remain #1 after this world cup. They were miles clear coming into the tournament and should be well clear afterwards. That is one thing they wont lose

Answer 6

I don't know whether the 1, 2 status will change but I know that RWC games count double.

Ireland dropped a few places last week & England rose based on recent results.

But I doubt one loss for each will be enough to remove them from top. Having said that if SA win RWC, then they probably will rise to No 1. If Fra win I doubt that will take them to top.

Answer 7

It might...Kiwis are sore losers tho...Kiwis will tell themselves anything to feel better..like we are the best...but suck at actually pressure world cup rugby...just makes me laugh...blame the ref...just accept...could talk the talk but in no way walk the walk..