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The biggest problem here is that we are now seeing the outcome of the NRL fully controlling the IRL agenda. And it ain't pretty, no matter how much people try to look on the positive side of things. I

crashmon
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If they are worried about cost then why not just have 3 groups of 3 and put Aus directly in the SF,  This way those Aussie players would still be free for NRL pre-season friendlies while the group gam

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I was in the sell out Crowd in Bristol for the game between the might of the Cook Islands vs the USA.  PLace was heaving..... So something must have happened to get the people of Bristol (those die in

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16 minutes ago, Spidey said:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Rugby_League_World_Cup
 

This had 18 games including daft playoffs for rankings

Absolute nonsense if we go back to that but I fear you will be correct. Those formats were ridiculed and the IRL itself said it wanted to move away from them.

If we are to have 10, which I absolutely don't want, then it has to be a simple 2 groups of 5 with the top two from each group going to a semi final and then final.

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The logic of going to 10 is meant to be about cutting out the weaker teams. Yeah we know that was just an excuse but lets roll with it. As such we should have 10 nations that can be reasonably competitive with each other. To then still go with some sort of super group format shows their own lack of confidence in the ###### justification they gave.

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I have to say that invitation to tender document is really poor too and doesn't exactly sell the World Cup tournaments or make you think these are events worth bidding for.

It just looks cheap and looks like something someone has knocked up in 30 mins with a bit of copying and pasting and then added a bit of spitballing for host contributions.

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1 hour ago, Mathius Hellwege said:

What system will bring 18 games in five weeks

Group A 4 teams 6 games.

Groups B and C 3 teams, with cross group games, similar to 2017, 9 games

Semi finals and final 3 games.

 

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3 minutes ago, Griff said:

Group A 4 teams 6 games.

Groups B and C 3 teams, with cross group games, similar to 2017, 9 games

Semi finals and final 3 games.

 

In terms of rankings I'd go:

Group A: 1, 4, 6, Q2

Group B: 2, 5, 8

Group 3: 3,7, Q1

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8 minutes ago, Griff said:

Group A 4 teams 6 games.

Groups B and C 3 teams, with cross group games, similar to 2017, 9 games

Semi finals and final 3 games.

 

But not simultaneous cross-cut as I would have assumed but after the group is done and playing not pre-determined by chance before but by place afterwards for place 9, 7 and the 4th QFspot

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Top 2 in Super Group and the two other group toppers should be the four quarter-finalists, if they are going to go with this retrograde set-up.

3 plus one of the other pool-toppers would be stacked and grossly unfair.

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8 minutes ago, Mathius Hellwege said:

But not simultaneous cross-cut as I would have assumed but after the group is done and playing not pre-determined by chance before but by place afterwards for place 9, 7 and the 4th QFspot

Bottom two of each group drop out. Leaving 4 semifinalists. There'll be no quarter finals. There aren't enough weeks for a start.

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How about two groups of five, top two make the Semi finals. Or is that too obvious and simple for rugby league? 

They've said there'll be 18 games in a five week comp.  The only format that fits that is the one I've outlined.

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1 hour ago, Spidey said:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Rugby_League_World_Cup
 

This had 18 games including daft playoffs for rankings

 

1 hour ago, Archie Gordon said:

4-3-3 model. Aka 'super group' model.

Was always going to happen.

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