By JON NEWCOMBE

Bruiser: Jaques Burger

JACQUES BURGER insists the Rugby World Cup would be a much poorer spectacle if the competition was split in two.
In last Sunday’s column, The Rugby Paper’s Nick Cain argued that the competition should be divided into a Gold and Silver Rugby World Cup with only the top four ‘minnows’ getting a chance to rub shoulders with the elite.
His idea, which was first courted by Francis Baron in 2002 when the RFU made an unsuccessful bid to host the 2007 tournament, carries some weight given some of the mismatches seen at Japan 2019.
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