I DO wish that rugby correspondents would stop whining about the current World Cup draw!
Yes, it was unbalanced so why oh why couldn’t it have been evened-out like the 2019 competition? In three consecutive weeks, England played a good Australian side, (unlike this year’s crop) in the quarter final. Then New Zealand in the semi’s followed by South Africa in the final!
That’s why it’s called a draw, there is no seeding.
It also gives the players, those people that the game is made for, a chance for minnows to play against the best in the world.
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