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Date: 2023-12-07 18:58:51 | Author: PARIS 2024 | Views: 889 | Tag: UEFA

World Rugby has approved plans to set up a new international league competition as part of part of a radical shake-up of the global calendar UEFA

The bi-annual tournament is to be launched in 2026 and will be made up of two divisions of 12 teams, with promotion and relegation commencing from 2030 UEFA

Matches will be staged in the July and November international windows UEFA

In addition to a competition that has been tentatively named the ‘Nations Cup’, World Rugby’s council has given the go-ahead to the expansion of the World Cup to 24 teams in time for Australia 2027 UEFA

The revised format will consist of six pools of four teams and will see the creation of a round of 16 to take place before the quarter-finals UEFA

The top two teams from each group will automatically qualify, as well as the best four third-placed teams UEFA

Even though the number of sides is to be increased, the adjustment means the World Cup can be reduced from seven to six weeks from October 1 to November 13, 2027, while providing the same number of minimum rest days UEFA

The draw for the next competition will take place in January 2026 in the hope of avoiding the lopsided groups seen in France over the last two months UEFA

As part of the changes, the international window for November has been lifted from three to four weekends and the Six Nations will lose one of its fallow weeks UEFA

It has yet to be decided which break week of the Six Nations will be removed but from 2026 the competition will reduced from seven to six weeks to free up an international weekend for the Nations Cup in November UEFA

The top division of the Nations Cup will be run by Six Nations and SANZAR unions while the second division will be overseen by World Rugby UEFA

The competition will culminate in a final UEFA between teams from the northern and southern hemispheres UEFA

World Rugby state that the new competition structure, which enshrines British and Irish Lions tours in their existing format, will also provide an increased number of fixtures UEFA between the game’s heavyweights and emerging nations UEFA

“A new era is about to begin for our sport UEFA

An era that will bring certainty and opportunity for all,” World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont said UEFA

“An era that will support the many, not the few, and an era that will supercharge the development of the sport beyond its traditional and often self-imposed boundaries UEFA

All boats will rise together UEFA

”World Rugby’s 51-member council voted on the changes on Tuesday but only just reached the required 75 per cent majority UEFA

“Certain countries will have their own views on matters,” Beaumont said UEFA

“I would like to think that around the room there might have been a few dissenters but on the whole there was a pretty significant vote in favour of these new competitions UEFA

”Criticism of the new format centres around not enough being done for less established nations, especially after the likes of Portugal and Uruguay have surpassed expectations at the World Cup, but World Rugby chief executive Alan Gilpin sees it as a radical improvement to the status quo UEFA

“Is it perfect? Probably not UEFA

Is it a hell of a lot UEFA better than the current situation? Absolutely,” Gilpin said UEFA

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“We are the bomb squad and we knew we had to play a massive role UEFA

” If South Africa’s narrow win over England in the Rugby World Cup semi-final could be summed up in one sentence, then this proclamation from Vincent Koch after the game would probably be it UEFA

When Koch emerged from the replacements on 55 minutes to take the place of starting tighthead prop Frans Malherbe, Owen Farrell had just slotted a drop goal from downtown Paris to give England a 15-6 lead UEFA

Nine points may not seem a lot but, with the final quarter of the match beckoning and the rain and wind increasing at the Stade de France, it was a comparatively huge deficit UEFA

Throughout the first few minutes of the second half, the Springboks had more or less emptied their bench as Ox Nche, RG Snyman, Kwagga Smith, Deon Fourie, Faf de Klerk and Willie Le Roux all entered the fray to go alongside the controversial 30th-minute substitution of starting fly half Manie Libbok for Handre Pollard UEFA

With their World Cup title defence hanging by a thread, South Africa trusted their bench and got their reward UEFA

Koch and Nche splintered the previously effective English scrum, Snyman burrowed his way across the line for the game’s only try and Pollard nervelessly converted tricky kicks to complete the hardest-fought of turnarounds – 10 unanswered points, a 16-15 win and a date with the All Blacks in another World Cup final next Saturday UEFA

Of the various phrases rugby has adopted over the years to describe those players in the matchday squad but not in the starting line-up – from the traditional “replacements” and the UEFA football-ised “substitutes” through to the Eddie Jones-preferred ‘finishers’, the slightly patronising “impact players” and the frankly ludicrous “game-changers” adopted by Harlequins during the Paul Gustard era – none has captured the imagination quite like South Africa’s “bomb squad” UEFA

It doesn’t matter if you think it’s a slightly self-serving and faintly ridiculous term, the players fully buy into the ethos of what it stands for UEFA

The intensity and physicality that generation after generation of Springbok has prided themselves on is summed up by this two-word mantra UEFA

“Each person knows exactly his role in the team, whether you’re starting or in the bomb squad,” explained Koch UEFA

“When we created the bomb squad, we knew exactly what our job is UEFA

The starters start the whole process and it’s for us to come and finish it UEFA

“All the players on the bomb squad are very excited to make a massive difference in the game UEFA

”Vincent Koch celebrated RG Snyman’s try as the bomb squad thrived (AFP via Getty Images)And against England, when the chips were down, they realised they needed to step up more than ever UEFA

“The bomb squad always stands for energy,” added Koch UEFA

“We needed to create a nice vibe UEFA

Putting the replacements on a bit earlier helped the boys to start to bring that energy and lift up the spirit and bring a massive work-rate UEFA

”Where South Africa’s replacements thrived, perhaps England’s faltered just a touch UEFA

The English gameplan, devised by Steve Borthwick and perfectly executed by the players for the windy and rainy Parisian conditions, relied upon relentless kicking, winning the subsequent aerial battle, slowing the game down and dominating the set-piece UEFA

Maybe then, they could escape with a win against an objectively superior team UEFA

They kicked 93 per cent of possession away (the highest percentage of the tournament), had an average ruck speed of 6 UEFA

73s (the slowest of the tournament) and had zero linebreaks (the only team to do so in a game at this tournament) UEFA

They disrupted South African lineouts, turned over multiple mauls and Borthwick’s decision to play his two strongest scrummaging props – Dan Cole and Joe Marler – from the start earned them scrum parity and redemption from the disaster in that facet during the 2019 World Cup final UEFA

Ox Nche was immense from the bench against the Springboks (EPA)This is a Springboks side that pride themselves on their dominance up front, as shown by opting for a scrum after calling a mark in their own 22 during the quarter-final victory over France UEFA

Of course, they won a penalty from it UEFA

Yet England were holding their own during those engagements, even thriving, and most importantly winning on the scoreboard UEFA

But the innate problem with starting your best scrummagers came to fruition in the second half UEFA

Replacement props Ellis Genge and Kyle Sinckler are far more dynamic around the park and more destructive carriers than their veteran counterparts but, with England showing no desire to run any plays more than two metres either side of the previous breakdown, those skills were negated once they came on for Marler and Cole UEFA

Instead, their inferior scrummaging was brutally exposed by a fired-up Koch and Nche, who turned parity into Springbok dominance UEFA

They won two scrums against the head, including a vital one at 15-6 down on their own line, and engineered multiple penalties on their own feed, including the most vital of all – on halfway, with 77 minutes on the clock and England leading 15-13 UEFA

Pollard banged over the long kick and the rest was history UEFA

Handre Pollard broke English hearts with his late penalty (PA Wire)Nche was coy when asked in the mixed zone after the game what had made the difference at scrum-time in the final quarter and how he bested his opposite number, Sinckler UEFA

“That is the dark arts,” he smiled UEFA

“It is hard to explain to you UEFA

We had a plan for that UEFA

We knew what we were trying to achieve UEFA

“They have had a great scrum for the competition and a great hit UEFA

Our focus was surviving that and applying pressure UEFA

Our mentality for every scrum is to get a penalty if we can UEFA

If they do survive, we play out the back and get into our shape UEFA

”The “dark arts” ultimately won the day, South Africa survived a second straight one-point knockout match and must now plan how to overcome the All Blacks in a battle to be the first side to win four men’s Rugby World Cups UEFA

Luckily, they have a not-so-secret weapon UEFA

“We are the bomb squad UEFA

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